It's our weekly Wednesday update on the Arcade Archives series. Except for last week, when the magic happened on Thursday. Golden Week, hey? This week, we've got something a bit different for Hamster's series; after weeks of shumps, platformers, racers, and puzzle games, we have a sports game coming to the eShop — Pro Tennis: World Court.
Pro Tennis: World Court is a pretty typical tennis game that smashed into Japanese arcades back in 1988. You can either play against a friend in a 1 v 1 match, or play with them and play doubles against a CPU team. All the standards of tennis are here, such as faults, no balls, deuces (which you can turn off) — the lot! And the eventual PC Engine port added an RPG mode, but we won't be getting that as part of tomorrow's rerelease, sadly.
Oh, and you can play as one of two robots if you want. Surely that's an unfair advantage? You can take a seat at the court and how the game plays below.
As with all Arcade Archives releases, Pro Tennis: World Court launches on the eShop Thursday (tomorrow, 12th May) for the same $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29 price tag. Will you be adding this one to the collection? Get in the umpire's chair and let us know.
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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Wow, that header image is beautifully 80s!
God the audience applause in the video made me think my speakers were melting with all that crackling sound.
These are some wonderfully obscure Namco games they're putting in this series, hoping for Sky-Kid Deluxe!
That art made me think of Peach & Daisy from N64 Mario Tennis, they kinda look similar, don't they?
I'm guessing "WTF" stands for "World Tennis Federation"...?
@nessisonett I wonder when we'll get a game with those 80's anime visuals. It should be posible to do it now, just look at Dragon Ball FigtherZ.
@JeanPaul Wonder Momo was about as close as they came back in the day. It still looks pretty good, if a bit primitive by today’s standards.
Namco-Bandai is really laying it on thick with the "Games with no English version" lately.
Why do I really want to download and play this?
Just came by to say a love that retro anime aesthetic in the thumbnail.
Really been getting into older anime on Retro Crush, recently starting on City Hunter which I've never heard of before but I'm enjoying it so far & there's a ton of it.
@JeanPaul, @nessisonett, Stylistically I think Astral Chain seems to borrow a lot from the 80's/90's OVA vibe, IMO. That, and the art direction in the Famicom Detective Club remakes seems on point for the era.
This game plays and looks similarly to Family Tennis, which is great because that's still the best tennis game. I recommend at least checking out the version with the pseudo-RPG, because it's basically the Dragon Quest of tennis games: https://youtu.be/RFCxW5uzbeU
@BeefSanta
" This game plays and looks similarly to Family Tennis, which is great because that's still the best tennis game."
agreed. nothing beats family tennis
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