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Tennis Computer Games

The following Tennis computer games successfully simulate the sport of tennis.

Great Courts Amiga 1989

Blue Byte of Germany released Great Courts aka Pro Tennis Tour for the Amiga in 1989. Great Courts features three court-types, a sprawling table that scrolls in eight directions, Practice (2-player, ball machine and Service) and Tournament modes of play. In addition, Great Courts supports Easy, Advanced and Professional difficulty levels.

In Easy mode of play there are on-screen assistive indicators whereas in Professional mode of play there is no assistance and the ball is hit harder and therefore travels more quickly.

Great Courts events include Wimbledon (U.K.) and the French, U.S. and Australian Opens.

Amiga Great Courts was programmed by Lothar Schmitt, composed by Haiko Ruttmann, and drawn and animated by Uwe Meier.

Great Courts 2 Amiga 1991

Blue Byte of Germany released Great Courts 2 aka Pro Tennis Tour 2 for the Amiga in 1991. Great Courts 2 features an icon-driven interface, after-touch control, assistive on-screen indicators, ball-machine play and single-player or 2-4-player simultaneous modes of play. Great Courts 2 also features both male and female tennis players.

The seven tennis player stats can be tailored from a point pool of 100. Each stat can range from 0-128 (increased or decreased). The seven stats are service, smash, condition, forehand, backhand, forehand volley and backhand volley.

Great Courts 2 is the best tennis game on the Amiga.

Amiga Great Courts 2 was programmed by Lothar Schmitt, composed by Haiko Ruttmann, animated by Uwe Meier, and drawn by Thorsten Knop and János Tóth.

Tennis Cup Amiga 1990

Loriciel of France released Tennis Cup for the Amiga in 1990. Amiga Tennis cup features single-player or 2-player simultaneous play as well as Exhibition, Training, Tournment, Davis Cup and Championship modes of play. Amiga Tennis Cup includes 32 players each of which is characterized by six stats.

Amiga Tennis Cup shots include and service, lob, smash, forehand, backhand, forehand volley, backhand volley and drop-shot.

Amiga Tennis Cup was programmed by Benoist Aron, composed by Michel Winogradoff and drawn and designed by Dominique Sablons.

Tennis Cup 2 Amiga 1992

Loriciel of France released Tennis 2 Cup for the Amiga in 1992. Tennis Cup 2 features an icon-based options screen that offers three game speeds, four court-types and single- or doubles-play. In addition, Tennis Cup 2 features a full-screen display in single-player mode. Tennis players can fall and also dive to reach the ball.

Amiga Tennis Cup 2 was programmed by Clément Iyeyemi, composed by Michel Winogradoff and drawn and designed by Dominique Sablons.

Advantage Tennis Amiga 1991

Infogrames of France released Advantage Tennis for the Amiga in 1991. Advantage Tennis features Training, Season and Exhibition modes of play. Advantage Tennis players are characterized by two styles (Attacker & Defender) and six stats (service, smash, forehand, backhand, forehand volley, backhand volley).

Advantage Tennis special shots include dive, overarm smash, backhand smash, between the legs and one- or two-handed forehand or backhand strokes.

Amiga Advantage Tennis was composed by Charles Callet, programmed by Daniel Charpy and Pascal Burel (IKOS), and drawn by Jean Marc Torroella, Jérome Guerry and Philippe Masclet.

Chronological List of Tennis Computer Games

This is a chronological list of Tennis games and simulations that have appeared on Western home computer game machines (WHCGMs). I will add to this list in the future.

• Tennis TRS-80 CoCo The Image Producers 1981
• Tennis ZX81 Loriciel 1984
• Match Point Commodore 64 Psion 1984
• Tennis Atari ST DL Research 1986
• Grand Slam: World Class Tennis Amiga Kinetic Consultants 1986
• Great Courts Amiga Blue Byte 1989
• Passing Shot Amiga Teque Software 1989
• 4D Tennis PC DOS Distinctive Software 1990
• International 3D Tennis Amiga Sensible Software 1990
• Pro Tennis Simulator Amiga Codemasters 1990
• Tennis Cup Amiga Loriciel 1990
• Tennis Cup 2 Amiga Loriciel 1992
• Tie-Break Amiga Starbyte 1990
• Advantage Tennis Amiga Infogrames 1991
• GP Tennis Manager Amiga Simulmondo 1991
• Great Courts 2 Amiga Blue Byte 1991
• 3D World Tennis Amiga Simulmondo 1992
• Smash Amiga Idea 1992
• International Tennis Amiga Zeppelin Games 1993
• Center Court Tennis Amiga Gernot Fritsche 1995 (aka Blitz Tennis)
• Super Tennis Champs Amiga Mental Software 1995
• Virtua Tennis Windows PC Sumo Digital 2007
• Virtua Tennis 2009 Windows PC Sumo Digital 2009
• Center Court Tennis 2 Gernot Fritsche 2016

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