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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby Shinobi on Thu May 17, 2012 2:29 pm

samhain81 wrote:How about Panzer Dragoon


What does a 32 bit on rail shooter with Dragons have to do with a 8 bit Tennis games? Do Dragon Masters play tennis!!

The only 8 bit tennis game I ever played was Atari 2600 real sports tennis and Martina (however you spell her surname) on the Megadrive
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby Garry on Thu May 17, 2012 3:40 pm

I cant for the life of me remember a celebrity endorsed tennis game on the c64, but played a lot of codemasters pro tennis simulator, prob because it was on cart and didnt have to load rather than it being any good!
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby nakamura on Thu May 17, 2012 5:10 pm

CraigGrannell wrote:The likes of Virtua Tennis on the Dreamcast showed what could be done,.


Just try hitting the ball out.
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby resident paul on Thu May 17, 2012 5:18 pm

CraigGrannell wrote:
resident paul wrote:From the same people who did international soccer on the C64 did international tennis on the C64

Released by Commodore, but not by Andrew Spencer, who wrote Int. Soccer/Basketball. Lemon reckons Andy Finkel did that game (and also ports of Omega Race and Lazarian).

To my mind, 'proper' tennis games have dated terribly. The likes of Virtua Tennis on the Dreamcast showed what could be done, and so On Court Tennis, Passing Shot, Matchpoint and International 3D Tennis are pretty painful these days (although some are better on 16-bit machines). Pro Tennis Tour's probably the best of the games on the C64.

I never said the same person but the same people( commodore backed games company)
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby gman72 on Thu May 17, 2012 5:42 pm

That's right, paul, you never said that.
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby DreamcastRIP on Thu May 17, 2012 5:54 pm

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Monkey tennis? :wink: :mrgreen:
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby gman72 on Thu May 17, 2012 6:01 pm

smell my cheese! :shock:
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby Matt_B on Thu May 17, 2012 6:42 pm

CraigGrannell wrote:To my mind, 'proper' tennis games have dated terribly. The likes of Virtua Tennis on the Dreamcast showed what could be done, and so On Court Tennis, Passing Shot, Matchpoint and International 3D Tennis are pretty painful these days (although some are better on 16-bit machines). Pro Tennis Tour's probably the best of the games on the C64.


That's a rather negative way of putting it. Most games designers would be ecstatic to come up with something that wasn't really bettered until over a decade later on a machine a hundred times more powerful.
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby crusto on Thu May 17, 2012 8:01 pm

There can be only one: Final Match Tennis, unrivalled to this day, and its 8 bit :wink:

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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby The Laird on Thu May 17, 2012 8:24 pm

crusto wrote:There can be only one: Final Match Tennis, unrivalled to this day, and its 8 bit :wink:

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What COMPUTER is that on then? :wink:
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby gman72 on Thu May 17, 2012 9:38 pm

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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby crusto on Thu May 17, 2012 11:45 pm

The 8 bit CPU of the PCE of course, at the heart of every console lies a computer...

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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby AmigaJay on Fri May 18, 2012 7:12 am

crusto wrote:The 8 bit CPU of the PCE of course, at the heart of every console lies a computer...

:D

Powered by a 16-bit GPU :lol: plus I don't think the PCE had a usable operating system for computer use!
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby DreamcastRIP on Fri May 18, 2012 7:51 am

If consoles now class as being computers :shock: then I give you,

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Both celebrity endorsed and both 8-bit. :wink:
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Re: Computer tennis games

Postby DreamcastRIP on Fri May 18, 2012 7:53 am

AmigaJay wrote:
crusto wrote:The 8 bit CPU of the PCE of course, at the heart of every console lies a computer...

:D

Powered by a 16-bit GPU :lol:

By the same token,

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For the Lynx which also had an 8-bit CPU with a 16-bit graphics processor.
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