Tennis Arena

Tennis Arena is a video game developed by British studio Smart Dog and published by Ubi Soft for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1997-1998.

Tennis Arena
Developer(s)Smart Dog
Publisher(s)Ubi Soft
Platform(s)PlayStation, Sega Saturn
ReleasePlayStation
  • EU: November 1997
  • JP: March 19, 1998
  • NA: April 3, 1998[1]
Saturn
  • JP: April 9, 1998
Genre(s)Sports game
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Reception

The PlayStation version received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[2] Some magazines gave it positive to mixed reviews, months before its U.S. release date.[3][6][7][8][13] Next Generation called it "an arcade treatment of a sport that ought to be fun and exciting but winds up being mostly boring."[11] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 25 out of 40 for the PlayStation version,[4] and 22 out of 40 for the Saturn version.[5]

References
  1. GameSpot staff (April 3, 1998). "videogames.com Game Calendar". GameSpot. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on February 2, 1999. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  2. "Tennis Arena for PlayStation". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  3. Rickards, Kelly; Ricciardi, John; Boyer, Crispin; Kujawa, Kraig (February 1998). "Tennis Arena". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 103. Ziff Davis. p. 121. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  4. "テニス・アリーナ [PS]". Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  5. "テニス・アリーナ [セガサターン]". Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  6. "Tennis Arena". Game Informer. No. 58. FuncoLand. February 1998. Archived from the original on September 11, 1999. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  7. Joe Kidd; The Rookie (December 1997). "Tennis Arena". GameFan. Vol. 5 no. 12. Metropolis Media. p. 114. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
  8. Air Hendrix (February 1998). "Tennis Arena". GamePro. No. 113. IDG Entertainment. p. 107. Archived from the original on September 11, 2004. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  9. Smith, Josh (June 18, 1998). "Tennis Arena Review [date mislabeled as "May 2, 2000"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  10. Boor, Jay (March 31, 1998). "Tennis Arena". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  11. "Tennis Arena". Next Generation. No. 43. Imagine Media. July 1998. p. 114. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  12. "Tennis Arena". Official UK PlayStation Magazine. No. 28. Future Publishing. January 1998. p. 124. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  13. "Tennis Arena". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Vol. 1 no. 4. Ziff Davis. January 1998.
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