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| Developers | Nintendo R&D1 Intelligent Systems[6] |
| Publisher | Nintendo
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| Producer | Masayuki Uemura |
| Designer | Shigeru Miyamoto[7] |
| Programmer | Kenji Nakajima |
| Composer | Yukio Kaneoka |
| Platform | |
| Release | January 14, 1984 |
| Genre | Sports (tennis) |
| Modes | Single-player,multiplayer |
| Arcade system | Nintendo VS. System,PlayChoice-10 |
Tennis[a] is atennisvideo game developed and published byNintendo for theNintendo Entertainment System. It was originally released in Japan for theFamily Computer on January 14, 1984, a few months after the launch of the Famicom on July 15, 1983. Anarcade version titledVS. Tennis released for theNintendo 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 17launch games for the console in North America and Europe. It was alsoported to theGame Boy in 1989, going on sale about a month after the launch of the handheld console in Japan, and becomingone of the five launch titles for North America.
Tennis featuressingle-player andtwo-player modes forsingles and doubles matches, with eithercompetitive orcooperative gameplay. A computerized opponent'sartificial intelligence can be set to one of fivedifficulty levels.Mario is theofficial. 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.
In 1983, theFamicom had only threelaunch games, and its library would total seven, includingTennis.Shigeru Miyamoto said he was "directly in charge of the character design and the game design".[7] The game was developed in 1983.[2]
In 1984, it was included in theNintendo VS. Systemarcade game series under the nameVs. Tennis,[b] which was released in Japan on January 18, 1984.[2] In 1985,Hudson Soft publishedTennis for thePC-8801.[9][additional citation(s) needed] It was re-released for theNorth American launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System in October 1985. Nintendoported the game to theGame Boy in 1989,[10] and to theNintendo e-Reader in 2002.
The NES version is embedded in thelife simulation gameAnimal Crossing (2001), and in theparty video gameWarioWare: Twisted! (2004) as one of9-Volt'sminigames. It was also released for theVirtual Console for theWii in 2006 and theWii U in 2013 and the Game Boy version to theNintendo 3DS in 2011.[11][12][13] This version was added to theNintendo Classics service in late 2018.[14] The arcade version was released byHamster Corporation as part of theirArcade Archives series for theNintendo Switch in December 2020.[15]
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In Japan,Game Machine listedVS. Tennis in its March 15, 1984 issue as the most successfultable arcade cabinet of the month.[16] It again topped theGame Machine table arcade game charts in April[17] and May 1984.[18] In the United States,Vs. Tennis topped the arcade software conversion kit charts ofRePlay (July 1984)[19] andPlay Meter (August 1984).[20] It became the sixth top-performing arcade game of 1984 in the United States.[21] In Europe, it had become a popular arcade game by 1986.[3]
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