Tennis (1984 video game)

Tennis
Tennis
	North American NES box art
Developers	Nintendo R&D1 ; Intelligent Systems
Publisher	Nintendo JP: Hudson Soft (PC-88, Sharp X1, MZ-1500);
Producer	Masayuki Uemura
Designer	Shigeru Miyamoto
Programmer	Kenji Nakajima
Composer	Yukio Kaneoka
Platform	Nintendo Entertainment System Arcade, PC-88, Sharp X1, PC-8001mkII, MZ-1500, Famicom Disk System, Game Boy, Nintendo e-Reader;
Release	January 14, 1984 NES JP: January 14, 1984; NA: October 18, 1985; EU: September 1, 1986; Arcade (Vs. Tennis) JP: January 18, 1984; NA: March 1984; EU: 1986; PC-88 JP: June 1985; X1 JP: 1985; MZ-1500 JP: 1985; Famicom Disk System JP: February 21, 1986; Game Boy JP: May 29, 1989; NA: July 31, 1989; PAL: 1990; e-Reader NA: September 16, 2002; ;
Genre	Sports (tennis)
Modes	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	Nintendo VS. System, PlayChoice-10

Tennis is a tennis video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was originally released in Japan for the Family Computer on January 14, 1984, a few months after the launch of the Famicom on July 15, 1983. An arcade 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 console 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 console in Japan, and becoming one of the five launch titles for North America.