Tennis (1984 video game)

Tennis
North American NES cover art
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Producer(s)Masayuki Uemura
Designer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Programmer(s)Kenji Nakajima
Composer(s)Yukio Kaneoka
SeriesMario
Platform(s)
Release
  • Famicom/NES
    • JP: January 14, 1984
    • NA: October 18, 1985
    • EU: September 1, 1986
    Vs. Tennis (arcade)
    • JP: January 18, 1984
    • NA: March 1984
    • EU: 1986
  • 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, PlayChoice-10

Tennis is a tennis video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer (Famicom). It was originally released in Japan on January 14, 1984, a few months after the July 15, 1983 launch of the Famicom.

An arcade game version titled VS. Tennis released for the Nintendo VS. System the same year, 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. It was also ported to the Game Boy in 1989, going on sale about a month after the launch of the handheld consose in Japan, and becoming one of the five launch titles for North America.