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You cannot be serious! No aliens, no crazed Viet Cong troops, no high-powered vehicles... just tennis balls! That harmless and very-English of sports takes to the screen once more.

Tennis, if you didn't already know, involves hitting a ball back and forth across a net. In this version you do much the same thing. The action is viewed from behind the player who is serving. This view changes to a scrolling overhead view when the ball has been hit.

You can play against the computer or with a friend. The latter is recommended and is a lot more fun. The computer has several levels of skill, ranging from complete doofus to incredible, uncannily accurate tennis master (third dan).

The graphics are nice, although they do suffer from Spectrumitis. Sound is a little limited, but there is a very nice boop noise when a racquet connects with the ball.

The game is wonderfully playable and very well presented. In one-player mode there's enough to keep even ardent haters of the sport happy, but in the two-player mode the gome really starts to shine.

The graphics aren't great but otherwise it's a highly playable one or two-player sports sim.