9.4 /10 1 Votes
Genre(s) Sports Series Mario Tennis Publishers Nintendo, Hudson Soft | 4.7/5 Emuparadise Initial release date 14 January 1984 Designer Shigeru Miyamoto | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer Platforms Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Game Boy Advance Developers Nintendo, Intelligent Systems, Nintendo Research & Development 1 Similar Mario Tennis games, Shigeru Miyamoto games, Sports games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tennis 1984 video game
Tennis (テニス, Tenisu) is a sports game developed and released by Nintendo for the NES. In North America and Europe, Tennis was one of 18 launch games for the NES. A Game Boy version was also released.
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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.
Publication history
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 (VS. テニス, Bāsasu Tenisu). 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.