Tennis Arena
With no stat tweaking and no licenses, Tennis Arena is arcade-style tennis at its most fundamental. What you have here is single-match or tournament play for up to four players with wacky characters and a few…
Tennis Arena is a sport developed by Smart Dog, released 5 November 1997 on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
What Tennis Arena is
Tennis Arena is a sport game developed by Smart Dog and released in 1997. It is available on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
The premise, in the publisher's words
With no stat tweaking and no licenses, Tennis Arena is arcade-style tennis at its most fundamental. What you have here is single-match or tournament play for up to four players with wacky characters and a few different courts to play on. You can play an obese Chinese man, for example, and compete in a Roman coliseum whose clay surface seems to affect bounce marginally. That's about it for options though. No sim, Tennis Arena serves up roughly the same level of fun as Pong did 25 years ago, albeit now with prettier graphics and the occasional super smash. The game also features special shots, with visible trails, fighter-plane-like sound effects, and higher ball speed. These must be earned…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Tennis Arena launched on 5 November 1997, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto, NFL Blitz, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and Diddy Kong Racing.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto, NFL Blitz, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Diddy Kong Racing.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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