Virtua Tennis
Virtua Tennis, 1999
A tennis game created by Sega's Hitmaker division. Pitting the player as a virtual tennis player competing through tennis tournaments. Various arcade modes are included. For the home console market the game was expanded upon with the introduction of the campaign mode.
Sequels
Virtua Tennis 2 appeared on Arcade and Dreamcast
Versions
Virtua Tennis has reached several platforms including:-
- Naomi Arcade unit
- The Sega Dreamcast (which later played host to it's sequel Virtua Tennis 2)
- The Sony Playstation 2
- The PC (although this was a Conversion by Strangelite who are owned by Empire Interactive)
- The Gameboy advance
- The Nokia N-Gage
Characters Included several real world tennis players :-
- Tim Henman
- Thomas Johansson
- Carlos Moya
- Tommy Haas
- Cedric Pioline
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov
- Jim Courier
- Mark Phillopousis