Mario Tennis series

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Mario Tennis is a sports video game series that began in 1995 with Mario's Tennis for the Virtual Boy. In the vein of other Mario sport games, it features Mario and his all-star cast competing in a game of tennis. Since its second generation on the Nintendo 64, each successive generation features a console and a handheld version and all of them developed by Camelot Software Planning.

Series

Mario's Tennis — (Virtual Boy, August, 1995).
Mario Tennis — (Nintendo 64, August 28, 2000).
Mario Tennis — (Game Boy Color, January 16, 2001).
Mario Power Tennis — (GameCube, November 8, 2004).
— (Game Boy Advance, December 5, 2005).

Characters

All games in the series include these characters:

The following Mario characters have also appeared in the series (in order of first appearance):

The handheld versions also feature original characters, some of which can be uploaded to the N64 version:

Alex
Harry
Nina
Kate

Clay
Ace

Other characters, NPCs

Character Types

The All Around players have the best balance. The Technique have the greatest control over the ball's direction. The Speed players are the fastest. The Power players are the strongest, but slowest movers. The Tricky players have the worst balance, but can pull opponents off-target when the computer uses them. Starting in Mario Power Tennis, a defensive class was added. Defensive players have long arm reach.

Through the use of a Transfer Pak, players can import their characters from the Game Boy Color version of Mario Tennis to the N64 game. It can also import the players' stats.

Mario Tennis series

Console games:	Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64)>Mario Tennis – Mario Power Tennis
Portable games:	Mario's Tennis – Mario Tennis (Game Boy Color)>Mario Tennis –

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