Tennis

One of 17 launch games for the console 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.

• Title — Tennis • Developer — Nintendo R&D1 Intelligent Systems • Publisher — NintendoHudson Soft (PC-88, Sharp X1, MZ-1500) • Producer — Masayuki Uemura • Designer — Shigeru Miyamoto • Programmer — Kenji Nakajima • Artist — Shigeru Miyamoto • Composer — Yukio Kaneoka • Platforms — Arcade, PC-88, Sharp X1, PC-8001mkII, MZ-1500, Famicom Disk System, Game Boy, Nintendo e-Reader • Released — NES Arcade (Vs. Tennis) PC-88June 1985 X1 MZ-1500 Famicom Disk SystemFebruary 21, 1986 Game BoyJuly 31, 1989 e-ReaderSeptember 16, 2002 • Genre — Sports (tennis) • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Arcade System — Nintendo VS. System, PlayChoice-10

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.

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". The game was developed in 1983. In 1984, it was included in the Nintendo VS. System arcade game series under the name which was released in Japan on January 18, 1984. In 1985, Hudson Soft published Tennis for the PC-8801. 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, 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. It was also released for the Virtual Console for the Wii in 2006 and the Wii U in 2013 and the Game Boy version to the Nintendo 3DS in 2011. This version was added to the Nintendo Classics service in late 2018. The arcade version was released by Hamster Corporation as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch in December 2020.