TENNIS VIDEO GAMES EVOLUTION [1972 - 2023]

[@TheGreatDudist]

So basically... either Top Spin 4 was REALLY ahead of its time or it perfected the game and no one has actually made an honest attempt at a tennis game since it came out in 2011.

[@jaimealex6723]

Pretty much

[@sulty0310]

2K25 SAYS HI!!!!

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

Top Spin 2K25 comes out sometime during the end of 2024. 2K actually has a large budget and a solid foundation to build on from Top Spin 4, so it should be a great game. As for other recent tennis games, almost all of them have been made by VERY SMALL indie devs who don't have enough budget (or non-realistic tennis games by Nintendo, but made by Nintendo's B-team of developers with limited funds), which is why a lot of them have suffered in quality. For example, I really enjoyed 2022's Matchpoint tennis (it has a lot of positive reviews on Steam for a reason, it's a fun and easy game to just kick back, relax, and have fun with) but even I will acknowledge the game has problems (the graphics are NOT good when it comes to the character models during gameplay when they show their faces up close and that's because of lack of budget. Meanwhile, the commentary, the crowd noise and the music is kept at a minimum due to low budget reasons. Which is a shame since the little music in the game is actually really good at times. They can't afford to have the license to events like Wimbledon, so they rename the event the London Grand due to low budget reasons, etc). But gameplay wise, I thought Matchpoint was a lot of FUN (which is the main reason I play video games) despite the game's flaws due to low budget. But 2K's Top Spin 2K25 should be able to be a game that surpasses Top Spin 4 since 2K has tons of money and they can to give the game everything it needs (the best graphics possible, all the licenses to all the major tennis tournaments, a very large staff of developers who will do great things with the things they need to create for the game, etc, etc) to be a classic.

[@sulty0310]

@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 Mad respect for writing all of that

[@TheGreatDudist]

@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 Dude. Thank you SO much for letting me know about 2K25. I'm so excited for that one. And at your recommendation, I'm going to give Matchpoint a shot. Honestly, I couldn't care less about the graphics (to a degree, of course). I care much more about the mechanics and how smooth it runs without glitching.

[@victormcabellor]

My TOP 5 1. Super Tennis SNES 2. Tennis Elbow 2013 PC 3. Top Spin 4 PS3 4. Virtua Tennis 2 Dreamcast 5. Hot Shots Tennis Get a Grip PSP (You missed this one) Great List, its impossible to put all the games, but nevertheless AMAZING WORK!! Thanks

[@ivanmcauliff4597]

Great video! I like your history videos that show the actual games, years , and platforms. You could extend this one back to 1958 - with "Tennis for Two" - a game developed on an oscilloscope.

[@dmolesevich]

Japan can turn anything into an RPG.

[@stephen9302]

Super Tennis for SNES is one I often return to

[@dirkdex]

Thanks for putting this video together - very interesting! I’ll definitely check out a few that I’ve never played. One small mistake I noticed - your Topspin video is the PS2 version which was a port of the Xbox version. The Xbox version was much better and maybe my all-time fav. I’ll still load it up on emulators from time to time, and I’m still discovering animations I’ve never seen - pretty amazing :)

[@Imadethisaccountforytpremium]

Now we will have a new tennis game! Topspin 2k25!!!!!

[@sulty0310]

TOP SPIN 2K25 SAYS HI!!!

[@Liasos88]

17:14 I remember this game. It won the award for "best audio design of the year".

[@supahbeebz]

God mario Tennis 64 blew all of the other earlier games right out of the water from gameplay alone, let alone the soundtrack. you can tell all of the other games that came after modeled after Nintendo's take on the sport

[@mjdf122]

More generations of sports games love these lists thank you without you and VGL nobody would know about all the games unless looking it up on wiki i enjoy it this way much love and respect I’m from 1980 so seeing all of these years of gaming is nice brings me back

[@VGE]

thanks bro

[@mjdf122]

@@VGE no problem at all

[@laksirabderrahmane3292]

European pro tennis by pheonix games Tennis titans 2005 Fantasy tennis 2007 Hot shots tennis ps2 Are not included

[@thegadflygang5381]

Intellivision and the Amiga were way ahead of their times. Tennis is a great sport for gaming it naturally translates over so well, why Rockstar Table Tennis was an early 360 showcase game

[@suppengroove]

god, i wish gaming could still make progress like back in the 80s from literally squares that move up and down to pixel that actually resemble humans with moving arms - in 5 years! and the following years to the 90s... holy shit!

[@coolbro8922]

Out of all of the tennis games, Spin 4 looks like the most exciting out of them all. But for simplicity, then Pong.

[@TDAWWWWWWWW]

FOR ALL YOUR VIDEOS TIME AND EFFORT THANK YOU YOU CREATED A VIDEO WELL VIDEOS THE KID IM ME ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE

[@VGE]

Thanks bro

[@ChipDouglas10]

Top spin 4 is the best ever. Really hoping they will make Top spin 5

[@sulty0310]

TOP SPIN 2K25 SAYS HI!!!

[@ChipDouglas10]

@@sulty0310 That is so awesome!! Can't wait for it!!

[@Bambeakz]

Top spin 3 was so much better. More realistic, better physics and better controllable movement. Let’s hope the new one will look more like that one

[@iankinnell5643]

Only downside it'll be like modern 2k sports titles with microtransactions

[@dgoncalo]

Virtua Tenis 3 was amazing on ps3. Such incredible graphics and movement for the time!

[@marshaloga3047]

As we can see, as the console generations increased, the quality of tennis games deteriorated, the best was ps2/ps3 era.

[@MudancadeForma-rh7hj]

Great video. It would be interesting to watch a split screen game evolution.

[@corneliussmiff2773]

Nothing will ever top Pro Tennis Tour 2 a.k.a Great Courts 2 on the Amiga. Still the most in depth Tennis Game I have ever played and super fun to play as well.

[@MattKoplowitz]

You missed a game called Racket Attack, it was out in the mid 80s or so for NES

[@VGE]

thanks

[@dave-o4328]

Yeah I was gonna say same thing game was pretty rad

[@casperueckermann938]

Awesome tennis Classics 😎

[@VGE]

What is the best tennis game in your opinion? If you know of any other tennis games not on this list, please mention them in the comments.

[@jmuduke99]

NES Tennis 1984

[@dakotabeachler9321]

Top Spin for the original Xbox

[@sanzi1984]

Virtua Tennis on DC! I loved that game!

[@Ernesto2004]

NES TENNIS

[@rivarimimahardikamahalin999]

There was another tennis game, (know as Tennis Titans, which was release in 2005)

[@samcox8182]

Top spin 4 still the best tennis game ever

[@Leesin6767]

In player movement and realism of movement only. Full Ace and Tennis Elbow offer the better court experience. You are blinded by nostalgia.

[@ROCKSTAR3291]

@thefedhd1580 Tennis Elbow has terrible graphics but the gameplay is pretty much spot on, the only game where I can feel like I have absolute control of the ball. With mods the game actually looks quite decent.

[@Bambeakz]

Why 4? That one was much more arcade than 3

[@ツヤツヤ-h7y]

面白い動画ありがとうございます😊

[@yahiawalidyt]

Virtua Tennis 4 was my favorite so far!

[@matthewmensah481]

Happy National Tennis Pro Day 🎾👟 from VGE!

[@tz1843]

MIssed One . . . . "Top Players Tennis" (Chris Evert & Ivan Lendl in) NES

[@brianmercerjr2282]

awesome

[@douglasdixon524]

0:32, Intellivision was ahead of everybody. My best friend Tim had one. I remember baseball the most, the controllers had so many buttons.

[@lupanarmetalico9169]

Great video

[@ryanprjgamingchannel9437]

Over 50 years and still counting!!

[@Aleatoriodemarte]

Nossa, jogava demais esse super tennis 87. Bons tempos kk

[@kival9735]

2:24 .. 1985 super tennis Nadal vs Federer 😂 that year nadal is still an idea for his parents

[@Enzebeta888]

5:29 That is such a high jump quality for 1990

[@trifix]

I laughed out loud when I saw Davis Cup World Tour 1993 on the Genesis. The players looks and moves like body builders hahaha

[@matthewmensah481]

Can you do Bowling video game evolution 🎳🎮🕹️?

[@malcolmpordes8944]

There was a PC game in 1998 called Game, Net & Match

[@baronvg]

Tennis is such a fast sport. Why are so many of the games so GD slow? Lol

[@dave-o4328]

Forgot Racket Attack always superb with all sports videos though

[@flashbond]

I've never seen Top Spin 2 game before. All other game and film studios must go after the company that made the motion capture. It is better than Avatar 2.

[@alex.starostin]

9:20 Damn this looks realistic for the time

[@RobbieLugos]

I misread the title, so I spent longer than I’d like to admit asking, “Why are you only showing tennis games?!”

[@smallpaul2923]

😆 sounds like something I would do!!!!!

[@chrisb4350]

PlayStation and Saturn games aged as well as milk in the sun.

[@alex.starostin]

And thats weird considering they had a respectable number of good football and hockey games

[@CRISNOTH1]

My favorites always were Roland garros series

[@matthewmensah481]

WTA Tour Tennis(GBA version) from Konami They had anime-cartoon like characters Look like female tennis stars 🎾!

[@marcosmarques982]

Wimbledon Championship tennis is my favorite, in my opinion the most reality and fun is the virtual tennis 4

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

Virtua Tennis has nothing to do with realistic gameplay at all.

[@marcosmarques982]

@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 I agree with you, but if you is a fan of tennis and you do no playa it, Virtua tennis is very close to TV perspective

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

@@marcosmarques982 That's why you think it's realistic? The perspective?😂😂 There are nany different TV perspectives, any game mirrors some of them, in many games you can even chose from different perspectives. That doesn't make it a realistic game.

[@marcosmarques982]

@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 I completely desagree with you, in 2010s when I play the virtua tennis 4 I was seing the big 3 on TV the emotions and plays are similar to the real match of tennis, today we have a lot of games for tennis, but is to "arcade" or false simulation of tennis

[@solarisaint1]

The evolutions stopped 15 years ago

[@jon40650]

0:13 this Pong 1972 isn't from atari 2600, it's from Arcade.

[@douglasdixon524]

Exactly, Pong was Atari's first video game but the Atari 2600 didn't come out till 1977. I wish I still had mine.

[@SV-je2rf]

Please name the best tennis games in which you can play 2 on 2 over the network

[@documentthedrama8279]

1. hot shots tennis (PSP) 2. Jennifer capriati tennis (megadrive) 3. virtua tennis 3/smash court tennis 3 4. Capcom sports club (arcade)

[@Jeromimo8]

Tennis games look better in early 2000s

[@Jaydee71172]

Anyone else played all of these? 😁

[@eastway6666]

Top Spin -first normal tennis.Prince of tennis...........🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@skorgged]

Top spin was the best

[@enriquequevedo7284]

Messi free kick evolution in the world cup game 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

[@TAEspy]

I love tennis 1984. ^v^

[@cuzio1981]

Top Spin 4 the best ever

[@Ernesto2004]

Do Golf Video Game Evolution

[@Leesin6767]

Tennis on the NES was way ahead.

[@NickyGi]

After 2011 everything starts to go backwards again.

[@eugenehills8371]

Wimbledon tennis 🎾 David Crane net swing hand

[@jorgeastorga993]

tantos juegos con una excelente jugabilidad, se pueden remasterizar a switch?, estoy pidiendo mucho?, jaja

[@pablo5p5]

I go to play outlaw tennis for two big reasons

[@SonicVSnake]

Nothing better since 1972 😂

[@matthewmensah481]

Tennis 🎾 is a racket sport!

[@matthewmensah481]

Can you do Venus/Serena Williams or Andre Agassi 🎾 evolution?

[@thegadflygang5381]

PS1 has about two dozen tennis games, the same for boxing. We cant get a single boxing game and the rare tennis

[@matthewmensah481]

🎾Tennis was invented by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1873!

[@Knh55-u5l]

Top spin is the only tennis ill play on ps2

[@dinh5532]

Topsin was the smoothest gameplay.

[@Bambeakz]

2:44 Did they miss the progress all the way from Pong?

[@douglasdixon524]

The year is wrong, the Sinclair ZX81 was made from 1981 to 1984. It was a mini computer and yes cheesey graphics.

[@dashrendar655]

And now Top Spin 2K25! April 26!

[@robisvaldojosefino869]

virtua tenis 4 and top spin4 ever realistic and fluid jogabilyt

[@winanps]

Federer vs Nadal in '85? wat

[@fb1767]

It seems it peaked some 10 years ago and everything past then was just lazy attempts.

[@victorbicudo1374]

problem with tennis games is often in the AI. opponent is always on no mans land half volleying every single ball.

[@friendskobe]

Nintendo 1984 classic

[@rodrigoalves-cg6xv]

Pong is still the best

[@MarkWhich]

Pong is still better than all the others after it.

[@MaxSmilik]

Ë-ба чëтко

[@T-13lambo]

Virtua tennis 2 dreamcast, neo geo pocket tennis, tennis nes and mario tennis 64 tchao

[@beyond.the.cosmosx]

1. FULL ACE TENNIS 2007 2. AO TENNIS 2 3. TENNIS WORLD TOUR 2 4. TOP SPIN 4 5. TOP SPIN 3

[@sbradshaw1886]

You can't be serious

[@kevinolivetti3263]

Nadal v Federer in 1985?

[@cottonburner5937]

Nadal vs Federer in 1985? Hmm🤔

[@rottree]

You forgot to put in tennis game in GTA 5.

[@VGE]

lol true ;)

[@Forista-f4p]

And full ace tennis? It is the best simulator

[@lsk88inet]

1st tennis is a 1952 - tenis for two

[@brannonhill4046]

I came here to mention that one. It was played on an oscilloscope

[@GamesClubgc]

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[@GamesClubgc]

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[@GamesClubgc]

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[@GamesClubgc]

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[@vasilijevucinic8271]

best tennis game is gta v

[@scotthirschausen177]

How can a game from 85 have federa and Nadal as a match up?

[@AlexKarmazin]

Federer and Nadal have been rivals since at least the 1800s

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

Mario and Sonic at the Olympics is badminton, not tennis🤦‍♂️

[@abdullahbulbul3497]

Nadal 85?

[@ArtRaph]

It Is not evolution, is chronology

[@abootoobaa1]

Nintendo.... 😵😂 And top spin 5 ?? I hope...

[@matthewmensah481]

Serve 🎾

[@MurmanAnimations]

they all look trash except virtua tennis saga

[@simonb.8868]

Top SPin 4 is the only one with real physics LOL

[@countrydawn418]

Andre Agassi Tennis is the worst of all.

[@nigimissibal]

where's the originator, TENNIS FOR TWO?