Tennis (1984 video game)

Tennis
North American NES cover art
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems[4]
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Producer(s)Masayuki Uemura
Designer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto[5]
Programmer(s)Kenji Nakajima
Composer(s)Yukio Kaneoka
Platform(s)
Release
  • Famicom/NES
    • JP: January 14, 1984
    • NA: October 18, 1985
    • EU: September 1, 1986
    Vs. Tennis (arcade)
  • List of re-releases
    • PC-88:
      • JP: June 1985
    • Sharp X1:
    • MZ-1500:
    • Famicom Disk System:
      • JP: February 21, 1986
    • Game Boy:
      • JP: May 29, 1989
      • NA: July 31, 1989
      • PAL: 1990
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNintendo VS. System

Tennis[a] is a sports video game developed by Nintendo in 1983, and released for the Family Computer (Famicom) in 1984. The arcade game version Vs. Tennis was also released for the Nintendo VS. System in 1984, 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. The game was re-released for the Game Boy as a launch game in North America.

  1. ^ "The Vs. Challenge". RePlay. Vol. 11, no. 3. December 1985. p. 5.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :7 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD. ゲームソフト". Archived from the original on August 25, 2008.
  4. ^ Kohler, Chris. "Miyamoto Spills Donkey Kong's Darkest Secrets, 35 Years Later". Wired. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  5. ^ "Nico Nico Rarities: Tennis for MZ-1500". YouTube. Retrieved May 4, 2020.


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