Editing Tennis

{{Game
|name=Tennis
|image=[[Image:TennisNES.jpg|200px]]
|bgcolor=silver
|fgcolor=black
|developer=[[Nintendo R&D1]]<br />[[Intelligent Systems]]
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|system=[[NES]], [[Arcade]], [[e-Reader]], [[Virtual Console]], [[Wii U Virtual Console]]<br />NEC PC-8801
|release='''NES'''<br />JP January 14, 1984<br />US October 18, 1985<br />JP February 21, 1986 ([[Famicom Disk System|FDS]])<br />EU September 1, 1986<br />'''Arcade'''<br />1984<br />'''e-Reader'''<br />September 16, 2002<br />'''Wii Virtual Console'''<br />JP December 2, 2006<br />US December 18, 2006<br />EU/AU December 22, 2006<br />'''Wii U Virtual Console'''<br />US/EU October 10, 2013<br />JP October 30, 2013
|gallery=
|rating= ESRB: E
|}}

'''Tennis''' is a sports game for the [[NES]] that is based on the eponymous sport.

=Gameplay=

The player uses simple gameplay for tennis matches in which the ball must be hit past the opponent in order to scale. There were singles and doubles matches and support for two players. ''Tennis'' also had five difficulty levels, rising from Beginner to Advanced. [[Mario]] also makes a guest appearance as an umpire.

=Legacy=

''Tennis'' was accompanied by a [[Game Boy]] [[Tennis (Game Boy)|counterpart]] which utilized similar gameplay, and there was also a [[9-Volt]] minigame based on it within ''[[WarioWare: Twisted!]]''. ''Tennis'' would later be among the games featured in ''[[NES Remix]]'', which presented challenges based on excerpts from classic NES games and also allowed players to "remix" elements from the different games.

Overall, it acted as a predecessor for later tennis-based games such as ''[[Mario Tennis]]''.

==Ports and Remakes==

*An arcade version known as ''Vs. Tennis'' was released in 1984.
*Nintendo allowed [[Hudson Soft]] to port ''Tennis'' to their NEC PC-8801 in 1985.
*It was available as an unlockable NES game in the original ''Doubutsu no Mori'' for the [[Nintendo 64]] and the remake ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' for the [[Gamecube]].
*In 2002, it was one of the games released as part of the [[e-Reader]].
*In 2006, it was released for download over the [[Nintendo Wii]]'s [[Virtual Console]].
*In October 2013, it was released for download on the [[Wii U]] as part of the [[Wii U Virtual Console]].
*In 2018, it was among the NES games made available to play as part of the [[Nintendo Switch Online]] service. It was part of the first wave of games that were made available with the launch of the service in September 2018. This version included cooperative and competitive online multiplayer options.

[[Category: NES Games]][[Category: Arcade Games]][[Category: e-Reader Games]][[Category: Virtual Console Games]]