It's interesting to note that Pong is actually based on the Odyssey game "Table Tennis", because you can't move the "bats" over the entire court. It's really a Ping Pong game (hence the name). Both Table Tennis and Tennis (where you can move sideways as well as towards and away from the net), were bundled with the Magnavox Odyssey.
Nolan Bushnell signed the guestbook when the Odyssey was introduced. That served as evidence Bushnell copied the idea for what later became Pong. www.wired.com/2015/01/ralph-baer-al-alcorn-pioneer-award-dice/
What's mind blowing is how the Magnavox Odyssey system came with semi-transparent overlays for the TV set to give it color and some background graphics. Can you imagine doing that today?! lol
Error at 9:22 the Super Nintendo couldn't rotate or scale sprites, it could only rotate and scale a single background layer (which could create perspective effects when combined with HBlank). Other tricks had to be used for faking sprite scaling.
Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour for the SNES was pretty amazing for its time. Shame you missed that one, but great compilation of Tennis games nonetheless. Thank you!
When I was a kid in the mid 90s I lived ontop of a Japanese import shop in New Jersey. The little old Japanese lady who owned it mostly sold clothes and trinkets, as well as some food to predominately Japanese people. However, she also sold bootleg anime VHS subtitled by god knows who and a small amount of games. I actually owned a Super Famicom because of that, since she sold it my mother for very cheap since it was an oddity and the N64 was already out. I loved tennis as a kid, so the game I got with it was Ace wo Nerae, the flashbacks of its mode 7 rotation really brought me back to those days of a game I hadn't thought about in years.
I don't know what "virtua tennis" on dreamcast has, but it "feels" perfect. maybe it's the framerate?. it looks and feels awesome, it's still impressive like "holy shit!! look at that!! and it plays so smooth!!".
There is a joy from playing tennis in GTA 5. After losing or winning going full nut bar and killing the other player. That Japanese one made me feel travel sick just from watching it. However I do recall a SNES tennis game where you could accidentally hit your doubles partner. It was accidentally as well. To go to other variations did they ever make a Real Tennis game.
I worked in an arcade where our Virtua Tennis machine was actually a Sega Dreamcast that our technician had integrated into a Naomi Universal Cabinet. Nice and cheap way of making a very popular earner :)
The video is very interesting, but the choice to leave computers out made it poorer. For that reason, it doesn’t really feel like the definitive tennis history... regardless, thanks for making another awesome video...
You left out all the virtua tennis sequels! To me that series is perfection. I didn't think anything could top jedi power battles for me on dreamcast, but in college my friend and I became obsessed with virtua tennis 2 and it became my favorite game on the console. I think we managed to get the king and queen to level 29 eventually, and even nights when we were too drunk to walk, we could still beat anybody. It even got me interested in actual tennis which I started watching since I was usually up super late and 3/4 of the grand slams are on tv in the middle of the night. The sequels were all great, quality games by every measure, however, none of them really clicked the same way for me. Cool vid, didn't know about Brookhaven being the origin
imagine back then all the engineers working on stuff like going to space, preventing war and then these guys were like, we turned an oscilloscope into a game.
Virtual Tennis on the Dreamcast is a stunning game. Fluid, attractive, full of character, and near-perfect Arcade action. One of the top 5 games on the DC without a doubt.
Shocked to see that my favourite tennis game wasn't even mentioned. Namco Tennis Smash Court and the sequel Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis for the PS1 were both fantastic - admittedly more of an arcade style, but still great fun!
Nice. You covered the evolution of Snooker games before,now tennis. Keep it up. There is more, like Golf (I loved Leaderboard Golf on the Commodore 64), Football (Americans might call this sport Soccer)... Oh, just thought of multi sport events. Summer Games! @ Nostalgia Nerd: You bring back sweet memories.
I played Mario Tennis Advance Tour on the Gameboy Advance SP all the time. Doing minigames and leveling up to get to play against Mario and Princess Peach is amazing.
Great video. Your content is absolutely top notch, like a silky smooth v12 in a classic Ferrari blasting down a lovely B road. Love it. Never change and please keep it coming.
As a serious tennis player in the 1990s, my favorite was Jimmy Connor's Pro Tennis Tour on SNES. It was more realistic than Super Tennis, with a variety of shots and reasonable physics. I also enjoyed the Virtua Tennis games but wished for better physics, especially at net. The charge your shot feature would be better as a precise timing one. I felt penalized for hitting the ball at the right time, and holding the button means you are temporarily stopped from moving and reacting.
Don't know if someone has already mentioned this but, Smash court tennis 2 on the ps2 has heihachi and xiaoyu from tekken and Cassandra, Raphael from soul calibur as unlockable players. Anna kournikova smash court tennis (PS1) also had multiple unlockable namco characters such as pacman and Eddy gordo.
The only tennis game I really got into was Jennifer Capriati Tennis on megadrive (although I had the genesis game, I think it got a different name here). I mastered it and was able to win every match on the entire tour without dropping a game. Infact I think I dropped maybe 6 points in the whole run. I did play the virtua tennis on ps3 though but never to completion.
Aww, no World Court Tennis on the Turbo Grafx 16/PC Engine? The only Tennis JRPG - go around, meet random tennis players in the wild, beat them for gold and upgrade your equipment before... going out and finding more tennis randos in forests? Surprisingly fun, if not very weird.
The only one I played when it was current was Activision Tennis. It was fun, but after a while I learned how to easily beat the computer. Two player was fun, but the person playing the far side of the court was at a disadvantage. I've played Virtua Tennis 3 and Virtua Tennis World Tour on the PSP via emulation and they were pretty good. Back in the 80s, Tournament Tennis on the C64 was my game of choice. To be clear, I'm not a huge tennis fan. I don't watch it on TV, nor do I play it in real life. That said, I do like tennis video games, if they're well done. Of course with pretty much all the later games, I never had the manuals for them, so I never knew how to control the shots. I just ran after the ball and mashed the button when I got close.
Dreamcast graphics were always way underrated. I always prefer them to the PS2 and I was an exclusively PC gamer so had no bias. 18 years can be short or long depending on your reference points. In years and personal memory it seems short but in game and game machine generations/evolution it seems soooooo long. So it's shocking to see Serena Williams featured in a game from 2001.
Reading Wikipedia about Björn Borg it suggests (doesn't say it clearly) he retired around 1984. Was there no video game around where his name was mentioned? I read he had an unsuccessful comeback in 1991 and there was indeed a video game he participated in called Final Match Tennis. But this was only published for the PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) thus not covered in this episode.
What...no mention of Hansa's "The Brat - Chalkdust - The Umpire Strikes Back"...eeh...I'm old. The first tv game we ever had when I were growing up was...I think it was that Grandstand tv game thing. It did not take me long to figure out that there was not great diversity with the things that were on there. Still... Interestingly enough, as I got older, I remember a shop where they did sell Atari 2600 cartridges, and was much taken by the amazing artwork with which these things were wrapped. The first time I ever got hold of an Atari VCS system was in 1989, and this was a sort of a reboot thing, it wasn't like how the originals looked, but hey. Still thought it was cool to get hold of one, and to play stuff like Galaxians, Crossbow, Asteroids, Hero and such on it. A few years ago I also got hold of that book about Atari Art, which...yeah, maybe deviating away from the tennis video game thing, but I thought it worth mentioning. Yeah, I may have been drinking...going on holiday tomorrow, not abroad as I hate airports, but it will be nice to just chill out for a week. Thank you for your awesome productions NN.
I really hated one Pc tennis game that had the quirk that the most you hold the button, the stronger the hit on the ball, but it was pretty badly done, like if you service right after that you can press the button and when you get to the ball again it was so fast that the oponent could not react to it.
"Space War" was written and played on the DEC PDP-1 mainframe (I think). The background had proper stars on it, so they nicknamed it "Expensive Planetarium".
I remember playing and failing to remotely master tennis in an early 16 bit DOS game that was first person 3D with very rudimentary graphics. Doing a little googling, it seems that the game I'm thinking of is 4D Sports Tennis.
I loved Match Point on the ZX Spectrum, but as a computer not a console that's a whole other video! www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003074 1984 in all its glory! Great vid as usual, NN!
I really love tennis games, especially top spin and virtua tennis. Such a shame about tennis world tour being buggy and broken I may check out AO tennis though.
Mario Tennis is really good fun if you don’t care so much about photo realism. I think a game like NBA Jam would also be quite fun. Did tennis get a similar game? I know American Football did with NFL Blitz. In any case thanks for the vid!! I’m still a bit ticked that you all across the pond call them bats instead of rackets. Interesting as I am a language instructor by profession :)
There was a tennis role playing game with final fantasy style random encounters for the turbo grafx 16 made by the same people who made final lap twin... i cant remember the name of it
Ah the poor ColecoVision gets forgotten again despite being much better than the Atari 5200 and the inspiration for the NES. You completely missed Tournament Tennis by Imagic.
Came here to say the same. Incredible game. Shame that the PC Engine/Turbografx16 was not a more popular console. I recently extracted the rare ROM of "Final Match Tennis Ladies" from the “Human Sports Festival” CD, and this is an even more balanced game because on this version the players have less power and gameplay becomes even more about tactics and precision. Just a gem. I owned and loved Super Tennis and Smash Tennis back in the 90s and today both feel clumsy in comparison with Final Match Tennis on the PCE. Grab the "Final Match Tennis Ladies" ROM here if you would like to try it www.mediafire.com/file/lpq6y3z7s7m8vl3/Final_Match_Tennis_Ladies_%2528Japan-Translated%2529.pce/file
Thanks very much. I will definitely check out the ladies version. I love the tactical element in Final Match. The physics and AI are uncanny at times. That game got me through a divorce 16 years ago 😅 I still play it to this day on Retropie.
No mention of Psion's Match Point on Speccy & c64!? Shame on you! Otherwise top notch. In the c64 version of Match Point there was an odd glitch where the ball physics went haywire: a shot would go flying up and come down about 3 seconds later and just do a little bounce as if it had been an ordinary shot. V odd but amusing :-)
It's interesting to note that Pong is actually based on the Odyssey game "Table Tennis", because you can't move the "bats" over the entire court. It's really a Ping Pong game (hence the name). Both Table Tennis and Tennis (where you can move sideways as well as towards and away from the net), were bundled with the Magnavox Odyssey.
Nolan Bushnell signed the guestbook when the Odyssey was introduced. That served as evidence Bushnell copied the idea for what later became Pong. www.wired.com/2015/01/ralph-baer-al-alcorn-pioneer-award-dice/
Nostalgia Nerd nice review, that vr tennis is crazy , but still prefer real world tennis
What's the name of the music track at the end of this video pls
Although with table tennis you can still move the paddle back and forth
What's mind blowing is how the Magnavox Odyssey system came with semi-transparent overlays for the TV set to give it color and some background graphics. Can you imagine doing that today?! lol
I watched this just to confirm the Virtua Tennis greatness, what a game.
Virtua Tennis 2 on Dreamcast still one of my favorite sports game
It was class man
Terrific video! I remember playing this DOS tennis game, Great Courts 2. Afaik the PC didn't get that many tennis games...
4D Sports Tennis was an early early DOS game that was alright. But Great Courts 2 was the best. Awesome VGA graphics and gameplay that was fun.
What no "Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis"?
Missed out the definitive PS1 tennis game. It still holds up well despite the licence.
I miss McEnroe VS Jimmy Connors from back of the early 1980s. Iconic tennis matches.
I'd smash that
She was in smash city tennis
Super Tennis was an absolute masterpiece. Played it to death.
Loved that game, and I don't even care for tennis.
Ineed! it's the only sports game I owned for my SNES.
spencer s same. Not a big tennis fan at all but that was some game. Wish they had done a follow up instead of going down the Mario tennis route
Super Tennis got hammered in my SNES as much as Street Fighter 2 Turbo all those years ago, great times!
Error at 9:22 the Super Nintendo couldn't rotate or scale sprites, it could only rotate and scale a single background layer (which could create perspective effects when combined with HBlank). Other tricks had to be used for faking sprite scaling.
One notable version you left out of the 8-bit era was Intellivision tennis. It actually had a crowd that watched the ball go back and forth.
Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour for the SNES was pretty amazing for its time. Shame you missed that one, but great compilation of Tennis games nonetheless. Thank you!
That was far and away my favorite, too!
When I was a kid in the mid 90s I lived ontop of a Japanese import shop in New Jersey. The little old Japanese lady who owned it mostly sold clothes and trinkets, as well as some food to predominately Japanese people.
However, she also sold bootleg anime VHS subtitled by god knows who and a small amount of games. I actually owned a Super Famicom because of that, since she sold it my mother for very cheap since it was an oddity and the N64 was already out.
I loved tennis as a kid, so the game I got with it was Ace wo Nerae, the flashbacks of its mode 7 rotation really brought me back to those days of a game I hadn't thought about in years.
I don't know what "virtua tennis" on dreamcast has, but it "feels" perfect. maybe it's the framerate?. it looks and feels awesome, it's still impressive like "holy shit!! look at that!! and it plays so smooth!!".
Because in the arcade it ran on Naomi which was essentially a slightly beefed up dreamcast.
There is a joy from playing tennis in GTA 5. After losing or winning going full nut bar and killing the other player.
That Japanese one made me feel travel sick just from watching it. However I do recall a SNES tennis game where you could accidentally hit your doubles partner. It was accidentally as well.
To go to other variations did they ever make a Real Tennis game.
Amazing overview but Final Match Tennis on the PC Engine needed to be covered. It was a masterpiece of its time!
I worked in an arcade where our Virtua Tennis machine was actually a Sega Dreamcast that our technician had integrated into a Naomi Universal Cabinet. Nice and cheap way of making a very popular earner :)
I played Pete Sampras tennis 97 on the PC. It was a really fun game.
Love to play any game that has Anna Kournikova in it
Sega Tennis was amazing. So many memories came flooding back just from that thumbnail
The video is very interesting, but the choice to leave computers out made it poorer. For that reason, it doesn’t really feel like the definitive tennis history... regardless, thanks for making another awesome video...
You left out all the virtua tennis sequels! To me that series is perfection. I didn't think anything could top jedi power battles for me on dreamcast, but in college my friend and I became obsessed with virtua tennis 2 and it became my favorite game on the console. I think we managed to get the king and queen to level 29 eventually, and even nights when we were too drunk to walk, we could still beat anybody. It even got me interested in actual tennis which I started watching since I was usually up super late and 3/4 of the grand slams are on tv in the middle of the night.
The sequels were all great, quality games by every measure, however, none of them really clicked the same way for me.
Cool vid, didn't know about Brookhaven being the origin
Smash Tennis (Super Family Tennis in Japan) for SNES is also a fun game. Not Super Tennis but definitely lots of fun.
the commercials for DC showing off the sports games made me lust for it even though I never cared for sports game before.
Virtua Tennis. A true step up from anything else !!
I played mostly "Match point" on C64 and Pro Tennis Tour 2 (Great Courts 2) on the Amiga..
Virtua tennis just like you said absolutely had me in awe in how 'realistic' it was....
imagine back then all the engineers working on stuff like going to space, preventing war and then these guys were like, we turned an oscilloscope into a game.
Virtual Tennis on the Dreamcast is a stunning game. Fluid, attractive, full of character, and near-perfect Arcade action. One of the top 5 games on the DC without a doubt.
Shocked to see that my favourite tennis game wasn't even mentioned. Namco Tennis Smash Court and the sequel Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis for the PS1 were both fantastic - admittedly more of an arcade style, but still great fun!
I absolutely loved Super Tennis on SNES. In hindsight it may even be what originally sparked my love of tennis.
I used to play a lot of Jennifer Capriati Tennis on the Megadrive. Four-player Virtua Tennis 2K2 on the Dreamcast was awesome too.
No Match Point on the Spectrum :|. No computers though, it was pretty groundbreaking at the time.
Yeah, Peter missed out an in my opinion important tennis for 8bit computers (ZX Spectrum).
I still (attempt to) play that, it's brilliant.
4D Sports Tennis for DOS from 1990 was revolutionary for me.
Nice. You covered the evolution of Snooker games before,now tennis. Keep it up. There is more, like Golf (I loved Leaderboard Golf on the Commodore 64), Football (Americans might call this sport Soccer)... Oh, just thought of multi sport events. Summer Games!
@ Nostalgia Nerd: You bring back sweet memories.
Agree virtual tennis 2 there’s never been a better rendition of the sport in gaming
I don't know why disregard Mario tennis and Wii sports, they're important entries in the genre.
I played Mario Tennis Advance Tour on the Gameboy Advance SP all the time. Doing minigames and leveling up to get to play against Mario and Princess Peach is amazing.
I have played many tennis games and by far the most fun was mario tennis. I am not so keen on the Wii version though.
He mentions in the video he would only cover "realistic" games
@@matteocristini6221 Obviously. but "realism" has never been a good descriptive of a videogame's mechanics or enjoyment factor.
@@restlessfrager I know, I'm just reporting his own words. Personally I think wii sports deserved a place on the list!
Great video. Your content is absolutely top notch, like a silky smooth v12 in a classic Ferrari blasting down a lovely B road. Love it. Never change and please keep it coming.
My favorite tennis game was Mario Tennis on Game Boy Advance. Tennis + a fun Adventure RPG put together.
Your commentary made me watch this review in full. Well done!
The original Smash Court Tennis on PS1 might still be my favourite tennis game.
As a serious tennis player in the 1990s, my favorite was Jimmy Connor's Pro Tennis Tour on SNES. It was more realistic than Super Tennis, with a variety of shots and reasonable physics. I also enjoyed the Virtua Tennis games but wished for better physics, especially at net. The charge your shot feature would be better as a precise timing one. I felt penalized for hitting the ball at the right time, and holding the button means you are temporarily stopped from moving and reacting.
My favourite ever tennis game was definitely Namco's Smash Tennis on the SNES. Yes, it wasn't realistic or serious, but the mechanics were spot-on.
Don't know if someone has already mentioned this but, Smash court tennis 2 on the ps2 has heihachi and xiaoyu from tekken and Cassandra, Raphael from soul calibur as unlockable players.
Anna kournikova smash court tennis (PS1) also had multiple unlockable namco characters such as pacman and Eddy gordo.
Capcom sports club tennis is a really fun game from the mid 90s. I used to play that lots.
*Ahh... The simplicity of virtual Tennis.*
*I love it.* 👍
AHHHHHHH! a new video from Nostalgia Nerd ! what an awesome day !
Awesome video, still like the original NES tennis the best. You did miss the Tennis game in GTA V on both modern consoles.
Well worth a watch on a wet Thursday afternoon!
Keep up the good work fella!
Also, I have those walls.... but no marines ....
I love'd this video. You really served up one of the best videos on the net.
The only tennis game I really got into was Jennifer Capriati Tennis on megadrive (although I had the genesis game, I think it got a different name here). I mastered it and was able to win every match on the entire tour without dropping a game. Infact I think I dropped maybe 6 points in the whole run.
I did play the virtua tennis on ps3 though but never to completion.
OMG nice one , little eeva just made her first cover song , thank you so much
hell of a vid, very enjoyable, thanks for making
10 seconds of that VR Tennis for a throbbing headache
Virtua Tennis 2K2 is one of my favourite games and a time sucker :)
Good work man. Keep it up!
YESSSSS!!!Binatone TV Master!!! Loved that console!! :)
Yay, Christmas already!
Aww, no World Court Tennis on the Turbo Grafx 16/PC Engine? The only Tennis JRPG - go around, meet random tennis players in the wild, beat them for gold and upgrade your equipment before... going out and finding more tennis randos in forests? Surprisingly fun, if not very weird.
Lesbian Tennis NES rom hack and Great Courts 2 on Amiga are great too.
Could use more wacky Mario shenanigans to keep me interested in a sport
Anyway Mario Tennis Aces was amazing
The only one I played when it was current was Activision Tennis. It was fun, but after a while I learned how to easily beat the computer. Two player was fun, but the person playing the far side of the court was at a disadvantage.
I've played Virtua Tennis 3 and Virtua Tennis World Tour on the PSP via emulation and they were pretty good.
Back in the 80s, Tournament Tennis on the C64 was my game of choice. To be clear, I'm not a huge tennis fan. I don't watch it on TV, nor do I play it in real life. That said, I do like tennis video games, if they're well done. Of course with pretty much all the later games, I never had the manuals for them, so I never knew how to control the shots. I just ran after the ball and mashed the button when I got close.
virtua tennis plays so good. today still.
Finally online evidence of the Binatone TV Master :)
I own one of these, and a Grandstand ! :)
Great video, but you missed the best tennis game ever: Pro Tennis Tour 2 for tha Amiga!!
Tennis games sure have taken a sharp nose dive the past decade
All about Smash Tennis on the Snes for me!
yeah super was great but smash had all of what super had and then some
Virtua Tennis 2 still looks good today!
Dreamcast graphics were always way underrated. I always prefer them to the PS2 and I was an exclusively PC gamer so had no bias.
18 years can be short or long depending on your reference points. In years and personal memory it seems short but in game and game machine generations/evolution it seems soooooo long. So it's shocking to see Serena Williams featured in a game from 2001.
My favourite are the smash court tennis games on ps1 and it's releases in Japans ps1s versions
Reading Wikipedia about Björn Borg it suggests (doesn't say it clearly) he retired around 1984. Was there no video game around where his name was mentioned? I read he had an unsuccessful comeback in 1991 and there was indeed a video game he participated in called Final Match Tennis. But this was only published for the PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) thus not covered in this episode.
What...no mention of Hansa's "The Brat - Chalkdust - The Umpire Strikes Back"...eeh...I'm old.
The first tv game we ever had when I were growing up was...I think it was that Grandstand tv game thing. It did not take me long to figure out that there was not great diversity with the things that were on there. Still...
Interestingly enough, as I got older, I remember a shop where they did sell Atari 2600 cartridges, and was much taken by the amazing artwork with which these things were wrapped. The first time I ever got hold of an Atari VCS system was in 1989, and this was a sort of a reboot thing, it wasn't like how the originals looked, but hey. Still thought it was cool to get hold of one, and to play stuff like Galaxians, Crossbow, Asteroids, Hero and such on it. A few years ago I also got hold of that book about Atari Art, which...yeah, maybe deviating away from the tennis video game thing, but I thought it worth mentioning. Yeah, I may have been drinking...going on holiday tomorrow, not abroad as I hate airports, but it will be nice to just chill out for a week. Thank you for your awesome productions NN.
I really hated one Pc tennis game that had the quirk that the most you hold the button, the stronger the hit on the ball, but it was pretty badly done, like if you service right after that you can press the button and when you get to the ball again it was so fast that the oponent could not react to it.
There was a really good tennis game in Capcom's arcade 3 in 1 and another on the Amiga (I think by Loriciel??)...
Rockstar tabletop tennis is probably worth mentioning.
lol using a really complex industrial machine to play tennis
"Space War" was written and played on the DEC PDP-1 mainframe (I think). The background had proper stars on it, so they nicknamed it "Expensive Planetarium".
@@WhatHoSnorkers wow the more you know!
I remember playing and failing to remotely master tennis in an early 16 bit DOS game that was first person 3D with very rudimentary graphics.
Doing a little googling, it seems that the game I'm thinking of is 4D Sports Tennis.
My favorite tennis game is Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour
I loved Match Point on the ZX Spectrum, but as a computer not a console that's a whole other video!
www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003074
1984 in all its glory!
Great vid as usual, NN!
You forgot Pro Tennis Tour on the Anstrad GX4000, it was a pretty decent game.
I'm actually trying to code one of these on javascript and it is soooo much harder than expected
I really love tennis games, especially top spin and virtua tennis.
Such a shame about tennis world tour being buggy and broken I may check out AO tennis though.
For ME the best Tennis-Game is (and ever will be) Mario Tennis 64!
No "On Court Tennis" on the Commodore 64? You skipped an essential step of tennis game evolution!
He was only covering consoles. There was that C-64 based console, though...but the game woulda had be available on cartridge.
@@xnonsuchx why is he only covering consoles? He didn't say so, and the very first game is in fact a PC game. On court Tennis is a great game!
@@ProfFake The video description did...at least when I read it.
Check how buff Tim Henman is on Virtua Tennis... MACHO MACHO MANNN!
You forget mario tennis
You Forgot the Sega Game Pack 4 in 1 on the Game Gear Only in Europe.
Edit: 3 of the game aren't a Tennis Game, but 1 is And Sonic in it!
So the guy who made the first real-time video game also made Nukes?
Mario Tennis is really good fun if you don’t care so much about photo realism. I think a game like NBA Jam would also be quite fun. Did tennis get a similar game? I know American Football did with NFL Blitz. In any case thanks for the vid!!
I’m still a bit ticked that you all across the pond call them bats instead of rackets. Interesting as I am a language instructor by profession :)
There was a tennis role playing game with final fantasy style random encounters for the turbo grafx 16 made by the same people who made final lap twin... i cant remember the name of it
I know it's not tennis, per se, but I really loved Rockstar Table Tennis on the Xbox 360.
TopSpin was the benchmark for me.
Ah the poor ColecoVision gets forgotten again despite being much better than the Atari 5200 and the inspiration for the NES. You completely missed Tournament Tennis by Imagic.
My friend was addicted to whipping ass on Top Spin 3. I was not so enthused about playing and losing most of the time.
Please check out Final Match Tennis on the PC Engine. Still my favourite tennis game.
Came here to say the same. Incredible game. Shame that the PC Engine/Turbografx16 was not a more popular console. I recently extracted the rare ROM of "Final Match Tennis Ladies" from the “Human Sports Festival” CD, and this is an even more balanced game because on this version the players have less power and gameplay becomes even more about tactics and precision. Just a gem. I owned and loved Super Tennis and Smash Tennis back in the 90s and today both feel clumsy in comparison with Final Match Tennis on the PCE. Grab the "Final Match Tennis Ladies" ROM here if you would like to try it www.mediafire.com/file/lpq6y3z7s7m8vl3/Final_Match_Tennis_Ladies_%2528Japan-Translated%2529.pce/file
Thanks very much. I will definitely check out the ladies version. I love the tactical element in Final Match. The physics and AI are uncanny at times. That game got me through a divorce 16 years ago 😅 I still play it to this day on Retropie.
Thought passing shot would have had a mention as it was an arcade conversion.
Wimbledon Championship Tennis' umpire sounds like a Dalek. 8:43 "Exterminate! Exterminate!"
No mention of Smash Tennis on SNES. Shameful.
Any ever played anna kournikova tennis ? It was amazing . That and virtual tennis 2
No mention of Psion's Match Point on Speccy & c64!? Shame on you! Otherwise top notch.
In the c64 version of Match Point there was an odd glitch where the ball physics went haywire: a shot would go flying up and come down about 3 seconds later and just do a little bounce as if it had been an ordinary shot. V odd but amusing :-)
Virtua tennis is the greatest tennis videogame ever made.
Top spin was totally my game. LOL
Passning Shot, my favorite to Commodore 64
Great list though I missed ZX Spectrum's Matchpoint.