Super Tennis is a tennis game developed by Tose and released for the Super Famicom in Japan on 30 August 1991 by Tonkin House. Nintendo published it in North America in November 1991 and in Europe in 1992, and Playtronic later released it in Brazil.
Players can choose singles against a human or the computer, doubles with a human or CPU partner, or the World Circuit, a series of tours in which they earn ranking points on the way to number one. The court is drawn with Mode 7, and the players are cute caricatures of the top real-world stars of the time, with their surnames left out.
The game found a warmer welcome in the West than in Japan. Film critic Gene Siskel called it his favorite video game, and it was included in the 2010 book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.1
Names and releases
| Region | Title on the box | Platform | Date | Publisher | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA | Super Tennis | SNES | November 1991 | Nintendo | 1 |
| JP | スーパーテニス | SNES | Aug 30, 1991 | Tonkin House | 1 |
| EU | Super TennisWikipedia gives 11 April 1992, marked citation needed | SNES | April 1992 | Nintendo | 1 |
| BR | Super TennisWikipedia gives 30 August 1993, marked citation needed | SNES | 1993 | Playtronic | 1 |
Also known as: スーパーテニス JP1
Box art by region
NA Super Tennis 
EU Super Tennis
Box art © its publishers, shown to identify each release. Scans: libretro-thumbnails.
Reception
Western magazines loved it: Computer and Video Games gave it 96% and Mean Machines 93%, and film critic Gene Siskel called it his favorite video game. Famitsu was much cooler at 5, 6, 6 and 5, and the game sold 27,930 copies in Japan.1
Sources
Checked: 2026-10-13Text reviewed: 2026-10-13
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