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Mario Tennis - More Details

Sports Betting Tip Famitsu Weekly recently interviewed Hiroyuki and Shugo Takahashi on the subject of Mario Tennis, confirming that the following characters are all available within the game: Mario, Toad, Luigi, Wario, Waruigi, Yoshi, Donkey Kong and Theresa the ghost. Nothing particularly startling there and it's obvious, as with most Nintendo titles, that there will be various other characters and locales to unlock after winning certain competitions.

More interestingly however, is the fact that Camelot virtually scrapped their first version of the GameCube Mario Tennis before restarting the project again with a different direction.

"Last year around March, we tossed the Mario Tennis GC that we'd been working on until then and restarted from the beginning. If we'd made [tennis] before golf, it would've been a more serious game. It likely wouldn't have been a game with so many gimmicks."
Camelot wanted to make sure that the latest version wasn't simply a graphically superior version of the N64 classic but a whole new game which felt and played different. Adding that "This is unacceptable for a Mario game. My brother and I love Mario, so much that we have memories of losing sleep trying to save Princess Peach in Super Mario Brothers. So, we couldn't accept a Mario game that merely brought graphics up to the system's specifications."

"We restarted from scratch, and, pushing aside the thoughts that we'd created Mario Tennis, assumed that there was a big hit called Mario Tennis out there. We began development by considering how we could make a title that compared with this. I believe the solution is contained within Mario Tennis GC."

"There was pressure to make a new game. Following the success of the N64 version, we were confident that we could make something interesting. However, we felt that if the fun [of the new title] were not communicated without people actually playing the game, people would probably, prior to trying the game, say 'Isn't this the same as the last one?' and not play the game. So, we made the effort to make a game that would make people think 'This is different from the last one' the moment they saw the screen."

Shugo spoke about spoke of the difficulty of creating Mario Tennis when compared to Mario Golf. "In that sense, we were worried about what we would do for Mario Tennis. But for tennis, the court is flat, so, adding height to courts is difficult."

Mario Tennis is due to be released in October across Japan with no confirmed date yet set for the US or PAL regions.

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