Tennis (1984 video game)

Tennis[lower-alpha 1] is a sports game developed and released by Nintendo for the NES. In North America and Europe, Tennis was one of 17 launch games for the NES. The game was also later released for the Game Boy as a launch title in North America.

Tennis
Developer(s)Nintendo EAD
Intelligent Systems[1]
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Designer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto[2]
SeriesMario Tennis
Platform(s)
Release
    • JP: January 14, 1984
    • NA: October 18, 1985
    • EU: September 1, 1986
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

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.

Release

Rereleases

In 1985, Hudson Soft published Tennis for the PC-8801. It was also included in the Nintendo Vs. System series under the name Vs. Tennis.[lower-alpha 2] Nintendo ported the game to the Game Boy in 1989, and to the Nintendo e-Reader in 2002.

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 Famicom/NES version of Tennis to the Wii in 2006 and the Wii U in 2013 and the Game Boy version to the Nintendo 3DS in 2011.[4][5][6] This version was also added to Nintendo Switch Online in late 2018.[7]

References

In Japan, Game Machine listed Vs. Tennis on their March 15, 1984 issue as being the most-successful table arcade unit of the year.[8]

Notes
  1. Japanese: テニス Hepburn: Tenisu
  2. Japanese: VS. テニス Hepburn: Bāsasu Tenisu

References
  1. INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.　ゲームソフト Archived August 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Kohler, Chris. "Miyamoto Spills Donkey Kong's Darkest Secrets, 35 Years Later". Wired. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  3. "Nico Nico Rarities: Tennis for MZ-1500". YouTube. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  4. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/xSgqzbHeQ932kzeuikje2YNTkSFT0czQ
  5. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/TdIMMXukgaYF1FVxO2aSJVPKWZ-AGnTa
  6. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/Rwf2zSpTnwqZYVAGArxhDSsPJyJxAyWo
  7. Life, Nintendo (May 11, 2018). "Guide: Nintendo Switch Online FAQ - Everything We Know So Far". Nintendo Life. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  8. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 232. Amusement Press, Inc. March 15, 1984. p. 31.

See also
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