Tennis (video game)

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Tennis
North American box art
North American box art
Developer(s) Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems (Game Boy version)[1]
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Platform(s) FC/NES, FDS, Game Boy, PC-88, Mobile phone, Nintendo GameCube (Animal Crossing game), Virtual Console
Release date(s) NES version
  • JP January 14, 1984
  • NA October 18, 1985
  • EU September 1, 1986
PC-88 version
FDS version
  • JP February 21, 1986
Game Boy version
  • JP May 29, 1989
  • NA August 1, 1989
Virtual Console version
  • JP December 2, 2006
  • NA December 18, 2006
  • EU December 22, 2006[2]
  • AUS December 22 2006
3DS Virtual Console
  • JP July 20, 2011
  • NA June 23, 2011
  • PAL June 7, 2011
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Rating(s)
Media/distribution 192-kilobit cartridge

Tennis is a sports game released in Japan for the Famicom in 1984, and in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985. In North America, Tennis was one of 18 launch games for the NES.

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[edit] Gameplay

The game features single-player and two-player modes for singles and doubles matches, with either competitive or cooperative gameplay. A computerized opponent's artificial intelligence can be set to one of five difficulty levels. Mario referees the matches.

Unlike some later Nintendo tennis titles, such as Mario Tennis (2000) for the Nintendo 64 and Mario Power Tennis (2004) for the Nintendo GameCube, Tennis allows players to hit the ball out of the court.

[edit] Publication history

In 1985, Hudson Soft published Tennis for the Japanese NEC PC-8801. Nintendo ported the game to the Game Boy in 1989, and to the Nintendo e-Reader in 2002; they later remade the game for the Nintendo 3DS.

The original version is embedded in the life simulation game Animal Crossing (2001), and features in the party video game WarioWare: Twisted! (2004) as one of 9-Volt's minigames. For the Virtual Console, Nintendo republished the NES version of Tennis to the Wii in 2006 and the Game Boy version to the Nintendo 3DS in 2011.

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