Tennis (1984 video game)
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Template:Nihongo foot is a tennis video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer (Famicom). It was originally released in Japan on January 14, 1984, a few months after the launch of the Famicom on July 15, 1983.
An arcade game version titled VS. Tennis released for the Nintendo VS. System the same year, becoming a hit at Japanese and American arcades that year; it was the sixth top-performing arcade game of 1984 in the United States. Tennis is one of 17 launch games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America and Europe. It was also ported to the Game Boy in 1989, going on sale about a month after the launch of the handheld console in Japan, and becoming one of the five launch titles for North America.
Gameplay
Tennis 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 is the official. Unlike other tennis video games, the singles mode puts one player against the AI and the doubles mode puts two human players on the same team against two AI opponents, it is not possible to do 2 player singles, 1 player doubles, or 2 player doubles on separate teams.
Development and release
In 1983, the Famicom had only three launch games, and its library would total seven, including Tennis. Shigeru Miyamoto said he was "directly in charge of the character design and the game design".[1] The game was developed in 1983.[2]
In 1984, it was included in the Nintendo VS. System arcade game series under the name Template:Nihongo foot which was released in Japan on January 18, 1984.[2] In 1985, Hudson Soft published Tennis for the PC-8801.[3]Template:Additional citation needed It was re-released for the North American launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System in October 1985. Nintendo ported the game to the Game Boy in 1989,[4] and to the Nintendo e-Reader in 2002.
The NES version is embedded in the life simulation game Animal Crossing (2001), and in the party video game WarioWare: Twisted! (2004) as one of 9-Volt's minigames. For the Virtual Console, Nintendo republished the NES version to the Wii in 2006 and the Wii U in 2013 and the Game Boy version to the Nintendo 3DS in 2011.[5][6][7] This version was added to the Nintendo Classics service in late 2018.[8]
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed VS. Tennis in its March 15, 1984 issue as the most successful table arcade cabinet of the month.[9] It again topped the Game Machine table arcade game charts in April[10] and May 1984.[11] In the United States, Vs. Tennis topped the arcade software conversion kit charts of RePlay (July 1984)[12] and Play Meter (August 1984).[13] It became the sixth top-performing arcade game of 1984 in the United States.[14] In Europe, it had become a popular arcade game by 1986.[15]
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See also
- Jimmy Connors Tennis (1993)
- List of Nintendo Entertainment System games
- Super Tennis (1991)
- Top Players' Tennis (1990)
External links
- Tennis at NinDB Template:Webarchive
- Tennis Game Boy (in Japanese)
- Tennis on the Famicom 40th Anniversary page Template:In lang
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