Racket Attack (NES) Playthrough

A playthrough of Jaleco's 1988 tennis game for the NES, Racket Attack. In this video, I play the men's tournament as First on the grass court. After winning the tournament, I show the female players' profiles at 2:21:58. Racket Attack, the localized version of the Famicom game known as 燃えろ!!プロテニス (Moero!! Puro Tenisu, _Burn!! Pro Tennis_ ), is the second entry in Jaleco's Moeru!! series of NES sports games. Funnily enough, that makes it the follow-up to https://youtu.be/eK0BY2_C9cc. It was also the first NES tennis game to be released after Nintendo's Tennis, a 1985 NES launch title. Like Bases Loaded, Racket Attack was developed by Tose, and it follows a similar design approach. It strives for realism with its smoothly animated characters, cutscenes, and high-quality digitized voices, and the gameplay offers a fair amount more complexity over Nintendo's take on the sport. To begin, you choose your player from one of sixteen "pros" (eight men and eight women), each of whom have a couple of strengths that define their play styles, and your preferred court surface (hard, grass, and clay). You play matches against the other seven players of your avatar's gender, and upon winning them all, you're declared the champion. Racket Attack's controls are easy to grasp and generally pretty reliable. The A button is used for smashes and slices, the B button performs lobs and volley shots, and the direction and speed of your hits are based on the timing of your swing and which side of your body the ball passes. Once you get used to the feel of your player's movements and the racket's reach, it's easy to blast through most of the CPU opponents, but the last couple of matches put up a solid challenge. The graphics and sound are great for a mid-gen NES game, and overall, I found Racket Attack to be a welcome improvement over Bases Loaded. The game play is faster, it isn't as glitchy, there are fewer obvious ways to exploit the AI player routines, and it doesn't expect you to play for more than forty hours to win. If you were looking for a good NES tennis game in 1988, Racket Attack would've been the obvious choice. _____________ No cheats were used during the recording of this video. NintendoComplete (http://www.nintendocomplete.com/) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!