Mario Power Tennis

Mario Power Tennis, from 2004, is a tennis game in the famous Mario series, developed by Camelot Software Planning, the long-serving house studio for the plumber's sporting side ventures. Camelot had taken charge of Mario tennis at the turn of the millennium and turned it into one of the most beloved side branches of the entire brand.

The recipe is proven: genuine tennis fundamentals, a layer of exaggerated special shots and hazard-filled courts on top, and the full cast of the Mushroom Kingdom to play them with. The result is a sport anyone can pick up around a single screen, yet one that rewards players who drill their timing and tactics.

The year 2004 falls in the period when Nintendo was systematically expanding Mario's sporting portfolio, and these titles ranked among the best party games money could buy. Camelot, notably, carried experience from its own role-playing games into the genre, which showed in the depth of the single-player modes.

Our catalogue lists the title under MS-DOS / PC with a side-on view. For fans of the series it recalls an era when a Mario sports game meant guaranteed entertainment for the whole living room.

Mario tennis has always drawn its strength from legibility: ball, court and a few buttons are understood within a single rally, yet slices, lobs and timed specials separate masters from novices. Camelot also dressed the courts as small stages full of Mushroom Kingdom references, giving even spectators something to watch.

All the release details and court-side screenshots are gathered on the game's OldGame.cz card.