Aim for the Ace! is a tennis game for the Super Nintendo, released in 1993 by Telenet Japan. The title is the English rendering of the famous Japanese tennis series Ace o nerae!, which makes this a licensed game built on material that popularised sports stories about hard training and a young player's climb to the top.

Matches are played from a side view of the court, as the entry here notes. Tennis on 16-bit consoles rested on two things: readable character animation and precise shot timing. Japanese tennis titles of the period also liked to add story interludes between matches – and for a game based on a narrative licence, that kind of framing comes naturally.

The year 1993 sat at the peak of the Super Nintendo era, and the Japanese market was full of licensed games drawn from popular series. The vast majority never officially left Japan, and Aim for the Ace! belongs exactly to that category – for Western players it remains a curiosity discovered after the fact, through emulation and fan documentation of the era's output.

That is precisely what makes it an interesting exhibit: it shows the meeting point of sports gaming and Japanese pop culture at a time when the West barely registered the two worlds as connected.

You will not launch it in the browser here, but its OldGame.cz card logs the year, the developer and screenshots taken straight from its matches.