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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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 :)
@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.
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
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
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
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.
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!
@@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.
@@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
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.
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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.
Pretty much
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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.
@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 Mad respect for writing all of that
@@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.
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.
NES Tennis 1984
Top Spin for the original Xbox
Virtua Tennis on DC! I loved that game!
NES TENNIS
There was another tennis game, (know as Tennis Titans, which was release in 2005)
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
Japan can turn anything into an RPG.
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.
9:20 Damn this looks realistic for the time
Super Tennis for SNES is one I often return to
17:14 I remember this game. It won the award for "best audio design of the year".
Now we will have a new tennis game! Topspin 2k25!!!!!
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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 :)
Great video. It would be interesting to watch a split screen game evolution.
Top spin 4 still the best tennis game ever
In player movement and realism of movement only. Full Ace and Tennis Elbow offer the better court experience. You are blinded by nostalgia.
@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.
Why 4? That one was much more arcade than 3
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Out of all of the tennis games, Spin 4 looks like the most exciting out of them all.
But for simplicity, then Pong.
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
Virtua Tennis 4 was my favorite so far!
Virtua Tenis 3 was amazing on ps3.
Such incredible graphics and movement for the time!
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
thanks bro
@@VGE no problem at all
European pro tennis by pheonix games
Tennis titans 2005
Fantasy tennis 2007
Hot shots tennis ps2
Are not included
Top spin 4 is the best ever. Really hoping they will make Top spin 5
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@@sulty0310 That is so awesome!! Can't wait for it!!
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
Only downside it'll be like modern 2k sports titles with microtransactions
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
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.
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!
awesome
0:32, Intellivision was ahead of everybody. My best friend Tim had one. I remember baseball the most, the controllers had so many buttons.
Happy National Tennis Pro Day 🎾👟 from VGE!
You missed a game called Racket Attack, it was out in the mid 80s or so for NES
thanks
Yeah I was gonna say same thing game was pretty rad
Awesome tennis Classics 😎
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Over 50 years and still counting!!
As we can see, as the console generations increased, the quality of tennis games deteriorated, the best was ps2/ps3 era.
Great video
Nossa, jogava demais esse super tennis 87. Bons tempos kk
MIssed One . . . . "Top Players Tennis" (Chris Evert & Ivan Lendl in) NES
5:29 That is such a high jump quality for 1990
I laughed out loud when I saw Davis Cup World Tour 1993 on the Genesis. The players looks and moves like body builders hahaha
2:24 .. 1985 super tennis Nadal vs Federer 😂 that year nadal is still an idea for his parents
Can you do Bowling video game evolution 🎳🎮🕹️?
Tennis is such a fast sport. Why are so many of the games so GD slow? Lol
Anyone else played all of these? 😁
Top spin was the best
My favorites always were Roland garros series
Wimbledon Championship tennis is my favorite, in my opinion the most reality and fun is the virtual tennis 4
Virtua Tennis has nothing to do with realistic gameplay at all.
@@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
@@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.
@@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
There was a PC game in 1998 called Game, Net & Match
Nothing better since 1972 😂
Top Spin 4 the best ever
Tennis games look better in early 2000s
0:13 this Pong 1972 isn't from atari 2600, it's from Arcade.
Exactly, Pong was Atari's first video game but the Atari 2600 didn't come out till 1977. I wish I still had mine.
The evolutions stopped 15 years ago
I misread the title, so I spent longer than I’d like to admit asking, “Why are you only showing tennis games?!”
😆 sounds like something I would do!!!!!
Forgot Racket Attack always superb with all sports videos though
Tennis on the NES was way ahead.
Top Spin -first normal tennis.Prince of tennis...........🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
PlayStation and Saturn games aged as well as milk in the sun.
And thats weird considering they had a respectable number of good football and hockey games
2:44 Did they miss the progress all the way from Pong?
The year is wrong, the Sinclair ZX81 was made from 1981 to 1984. It was a mini computer and yes cheesey graphics.
And now Top Spin 2K25! April 26!
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I go to play outlaw tennis for two big reasons
Tennis 🎾 is a racket sport!
Where's "Sonic and Sega Superstars Tennis" for the PS2?
Please name the best tennis games in which you can play 2 on 2 over the network
I love tennis 1984. ^v^
1. hot shots tennis (PSP)
2. Jennifer capriati tennis (megadrive)
3. virtua tennis 3/smash court tennis 3
4. Capcom sports club (arcade)
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.
Wimbledon tennis 🎾 David Crane net swing hand
After 2011 everything starts to go backwards again.
Top spin is the only tennis ill play on ps2
Federer vs Nadal in '85? wat
Topsin was the smoothest gameplay.
Messi free kick evolution in the world cup game 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
WTA Tour Tennis(GBA version) from Konami
They had anime-cartoon like characters
Look like female tennis stars 🎾!
Can you do Venus/Serena Williams or Andre Agassi 🎾 evolution?
🎾Tennis was invented by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1873!
virtua tenis 4 and top spin4 ever realistic and fluid jogabilyt
PS1 has about two dozen tennis games, the same for boxing. We cant get a single boxing game and the rare tennis
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Nintendo 1984 classic
tantos juegos con una excelente jugabilidad, se pueden remasterizar a switch?, estoy pidiendo mucho?, jaja
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Nadal v Federer in 1985?
Pong is still the best
It seems it peaked some 10 years ago and everything past then was just lazy attempts.
Virtua tennis 2 dreamcast, neo geo pocket tennis, tennis nes and mario tennis 64 tchao
problem with tennis games is often in the AI. opponent is always on no mans land half volleying every single ball.
Pong is still better than all the others after it.
1st tennis is a 1952 - tenis for two
I came here to mention that one. It was played on an oscilloscope
Nadal vs Federer in 1985? Hmm🤔
You forgot to put in tennis game in GTA 5.
lol true ;)
And full ace tennis? It is the best simulator
1. FULL ACE TENNIS 2007
2. AO TENNIS 2
3. TENNIS WORLD TOUR 2
4. TOP SPIN 4
5. TOP SPIN 3
You can't be serious
Top SPin 4 is the only one with real physics LOL
How can a game from 85 have federa and Nadal as a match up?
Federer and Nadal have been rivals since at least the 1800s
best tennis game is gta v
Nadal 85?
Nintendo.... 😵😂
And top spin 5 ?? I hope...
Serve 🎾
Mario and Sonic at the Olympics is badminton, not tennis🤦♂️
It Is not evolution, is chronology
Andre Agassi Tennis is the worst of all.
they all look trash except virtua tennis saga
where's the originator, TENNIS FOR TWO?