Virtua tennis

Virtua tennis
Publisher	Sega
First title	Virtua Tennis (1999)
Last title	Virtua Tennis 4 (2011)
Platform (s)	Arcade , Dreamcast , Windows , Nokia N-Gage , PlayStation 2 , PlayStation Portable , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 , Wii , PlayStation Vita
Genre (s)	Sports game
information	Arcade System: NAOMI = Main CPU : Hitachi SH-4 64 Bit RISC CPU @ 200 MHz GPU: PowerVR 2 (PVR2DC) @ 100 MHz Sound CPU: 32 Bit RISC @ 45 MHz Sound Chips: ARM7 Yamaha AICA 8-way joystick ; 2 buttons

Virtua Tennis ( Power Smash in Japan) is a tennis game released in 1999. The game developed by Hitmaker (formerly AM3), which is closely related to Sega , was first published as an arcade version . In 2000 a version for the Dreamcast was released . A port to Windows followed in 2002 and a special version for the Nokia N-Gage was released in 2003 .

Game flow

It is a relatively simple tennis game. The arcade version had only a few game modes, such as a tournament game. A career mode was implemented from the console implementation. In contrast to the original, the implementations could be operated by up to four players instead of two. In addition to the movement buttons, the game only needs two other buttons and can therefore be learned very quickly.

Tennis player

Several well-known tennis players have been licensed for the game. There was no women's tennis at all.

• Jim Courier
• Tommy Haas
• Tim Henman
• Thomas Johansson
• Yevgeny Kafelnikov
• Carlos Moyá
• Mark Philippoussis
• Cédric Pioline

successor

Virtua Tennis 2

There were also ports for the PlayStation 2 .

Tennis player

Men's Patrick Rafter Tim Henman Cédric Pioline Yevgeny Kafelnikov Tommy Haas Thomas Enqvist Magnus Norman Carlos Moyá

Ladies Venus Williams Serena Williams Lindsay Davenport Monica Seles Mary Pierce Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Jelena Dokic Alexandra Stevenson

Virtua Tennis: World Tour

Version for the PlayStation Portable

Tennis player

Men's Andy Roddick David Nalbandian Juan Carlos Ferrero Lleyton Hewitt Sébastien Grosjean Tim Henman Tommy Haas Roger Federer Rafael Nadal

Ladies Amélie Mauresmo Daniela Hantuchová Lindsay Davenport Maria Sharapova Nicole Vaidišová Venus Williams

Virtua Tennis 3

Virtua Tennis 3 was released in Germany in March 2007 for arcades, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles as well as the PC (Windows) and the PlayStation Portable .

Only the Xbox 360 version has a network- compatible multiplayer mode, none of the other versions have this included.

Virtua Tennis 2009

Virtua Tennis 2009 was released on May 29, 2009 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 . The variant for the Nintendo Wii and the PC (Windows) appeared in June 2009.

Tennis player

Men's Andy Roddick David Nalbandian Juan Carlos Ferrero Tommy Haas Roger Federer Rafael Nadal Novak Đoković Andy Murray James Blake David Ferrer Mario Ančić Boris Becker (must be unlocked) Stefan Edberg (must be unlocked) Tim Henman (must be unlocked)

Ladies Amélie Mauresmo Daniela Hantuchová Lindsay Davenport Maria Sharapova Nicole Vaidišová Venus Williams Ana Ivanović Svetlana Kuznetsova Anna Chakvetadze

In addition to the players mentioned above, there are two unlockable fantasy characters "Duke" and "King".

Virtua Tennis 4

The last part of the series so far, Virtua Tennis 4 , was released in 2011 for PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , Microsoft Windows , Wii and PlayStation Vita . In the case of the PlayStation Vita, this is the only tennis simulation available (as of June 2017).

Web links

• Virtua tennis series at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Virtua Tennis 3 “Virtuoso tennis fun?” ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ List of tennis simulations for PlayStation Vita. GameFAQs, accessed December 1, 2016 .