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Simply A Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! The play controls are great, the sound is great, even if you're not playing a tennis match it's great! That's because outside of a tennis match you can get a snack from the snack bar, upgrade your equipment with points you got from winning matchs. Let me say one word.

GREAT

Simply A Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! The play controls are great, the sound is great, even if you're not playing a tennis match it's great! That's because outside of a tennis match you can get a snack from the snack bar, upgrade your equipment with points you got from winning matchs. You can even download players you created on Mario Tennis Game Boy Color to your Nintendo Mario Tennis with a transfer pack. I am not sure where you can get one single but I've only seen them with Pokemon Stadium. Anyways, let me say one word.

GREAT

Even better than I expected!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game! One of the few GB Color titles that is worth the full price. I was concerned that the ball would be hard to follow on such a small screen, but no fear! It is remarkably easy to play, the controls are great, but it takes some getting used to if you are used to playing the 64 version. The play action and animation of the characters are both superb. One of the best titles for the GB to date! Buy it!

Mario Tennis

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: January 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Mario tennis is very fun though it doesn't even have Mario in it! The only three nintendo characters are donkey kong, baby mario and Lugi. Though the actual game is very fun your a member of a varsity tennis team and you have to work your way up by facing other ranked players. If you realy look foward to playing with the nintendo characters you can play an exibitition or download characters and tournements from an n64 system with the n64 version. Overall Mario Tennis is the best Game Boy game out There.

you found a fun game and cheap!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

mario tennis is the funest game that you could ever played, it is the best game of tennis , its is cheap compared to mario tennis in the n64if you want to play this game buy it on game boy not in the n64,if you have mario tennis in the n64 and in game boy you can connect them,the best thing that is portable and its very fun if you have a child buy it to her or him in holidays, birthdays.

Good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

dont get me wrong this is a great game, but it took me 2 hours to beat it. ther is only 1 tournament when you make the varsity and then you play mario and then you win. it is also way too easy. i never lost a match. heck, i never came close! unless you have the N64 transfer pak dont get this game. (the n64 transfer pak gets you a lot more characters and stuff)

Great tennis game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: February 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After playing and mastering Mario Gold it is time to move on to another game. Mario Tennis is the perfect game- both are developed by Capcom and therefore have a lot of similarities. You are once again a player at the bottom of the totem pole and have to develop your skills to gain experience and climb up in the rankings. The climb is not too difficult (but then again don't we all play these games because we want to beat the computer players) and the training is a fun way to pick up experience points. The graphics are as good as can be expected for GBC and since I am always playing on the bus or the airplane I never hear the sound anyway. Mario Tennis is another great Mario game that you can spend many hours playing and having fun.

Best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 20
Date: February 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought mario tennis, i was expecting an average game, not near as good as the excelent N64 version. But once I got into the story mode, I saw how deep this game is. You can walk aound, talk to people, enter the training house and do tons of other stuff. And thats not it, you can also play an exhibition match(1,3,5 (2,6 games) sets). You start with all the marioi tour characters and Dk, baby Mario and luigi. You can unlock Mario and Peach in the mario tour. And using the N64 transfer pak, you can get Wario, Waluigi, Yoshi and Bowser, each coming with a new mini-game. There are also 9 courts including, the DK court, the star court and the castle court. Each character you get including the ones you start with come with their own mini-game. You can also check out Mario tour, exhibition and mini-game status. As well as N64 tournament, exhibition and ring shot status. You can transfer new charcters to your 64 and earn experience points. Theres even a tennis dictionary. But is this game worth it even if you dont have the transfer pak. The awnser...HELL YES!!!!! Get this game, it'll be the best decision you'll make in a long time. A true true classic.

Mama-mia! It's-a 'nother ace-a!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: February 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Before playing this game, I had been a huge fan of the N64 version, and frankly, I was expecting more or less the same game. I was wrong. My first impression of the game were not positive. After all, only three actual Mario characters were playable. Who cares about some irrevelant Academy? What did these weird looking 'kids' have to do with the glorious Mario and its N64 counterpart? So, I began playing. And, quite honestly, I really haven't stopped. The gameplay is so enthralling and so addictive. Mario or no Mario, the RPG aspect of this game is phenomenonally cool. You basically play challenge matches to advance your position at the Academy and to gain experience points, whether it be on the Junior Court, the Senior Court, or the Varsity/Travelling team. Experience points raise your character's level, which boost stats. In addition, several training sessions and workouts are available to gain extra experience points. The coolest part of the game is actually the Island Open. Once you make the traveling team, you can enter this tournament. It is super-cool because you can win these tough matches and upset all the big names, even your own coach. It is really great. The game is not over; you then have the oppurtunity to confront Mario himself. WOW!! Talk about drama. Do not--I repeat, do not pass up on the transfer pack. If you want every character possible, utilize this device with your N64 version. The N64 version provides a whole new depth to the game. You can win tournaments with your GB character to gain experience, and they look really neat in 3D. Overall, Mario Tennis is an outstanding game; it will be remembered as one of Camelot's greatest achievements.

Middle-of-the-road tennis game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the N64 version of Mario Tennis, so I hoped when I bought the GBC Mario Tennis that it would live up to my expectations. Too bad.

I understand that this is a handheld version, which is just fine, but this game suffers in a few vital areas. First, it doesn't feel like a true "Mario" title---especially in the RPG mode. Second, the tennis action is simple enough to grasp, but it stops there. Too simple almost; there is a lack of depth in the playability department. Third, the sound effects, but you knew that already. And last but not least--the whole concept of a RPG tennis game just doesn't work, sorry folks. I tried playing it the other day, and it just doesn't click. The mini games are silly; the characters that you meet are annoying, etc.

This game is mediocre at best...I would stick to the N64 version.

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