Super Tennis is a 1991 tennis video game developed by Tose and published by Tonkin House for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo localized the game and released it outside Japan. It utilizes mode 7 graphics.

Gameplay

thumb|left|Gameplay screenshot

The game itself features three different modes: Doubles mode, World Circuit mode, and Singles mode, in which the player competes against a human or chosen computer opponent.

| CVG = 96%

| Fam = 5/10, 6/10, 6/10, 5/10

| GI = 7.25/10

| GP = 9/10

| GX = 4.5/5

| SP = 92%

| TOT = 96%

| rev1 = Control

| rev1Score = 83%, 91%

| rev2 = Cubed3

| rev2Score = 9/10

| rev3 = Game Zone

| rev3Score = 90/100

| rev4 = Hippon Super!

| rev4Score = 9/10

| rev5 = Mean Machines

| rev5Score = 93%

| rev6 = N-Force

| rev6Score = 92%

| rev7 = Super Action

| rev7Score = 5/5

| rev8 = The Super Famicom

| rev8Score = B

| rev9 = Super Gamer

| rev9Score = 91%

| rev10 = Super Pro

| rev10Score = 91/100

According to Famitsu, Super Tennis sold 7,095 copies in its first week on the market and 27,930 copies during its lifetime in Japan. The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game ninth in popularity in its November 1991 issue. It also received acclaim from critics.

Mean Machines magazine declared it to be "the best tennis game available [as of October 1991]" and scored all aspects of the game very highly, from sound, to gameplay, to their impressions overall. They were impressed by the attention to detail, like how ball runners get the ball off of the court whenever it gets caught in the net.

In a 2000s retrospective, Mean Machines' then-editor Damo stated that the game was still "the best representation of the sport to date" and also the most "fantastically competitive", but also said the single player was "nothing special". Super Tennis was included as one of the titles in the 2010 book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. IGN ranked the game 84th in their "Top 100 SNES Games of All Time" list. In 1995, Total! rated the game 40th on their "Top 100 SNES Games" list. They commented that Super Tennis is superb and it does not have as many features compared to Smash Tennis and praised the gameplay as "unbelievably slick".

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References

  • Super Tennis at GameFAQs
  • Super Tennis at Giant Bomb