Mario Tennis (Game Boy Color)

Template:Articleabout Template:Infobox Mario Tennis is a tennis game for the Game Boy Color. It is the third Mario Tennis game in the series, and the first handheld game in the series. The game features an RPG-like story mode, in which the player controls either Alex or Nina in a quest to become the top tennis player and beat the best player of all, Mario. It was re-released on the 3DS Virtual Console.

Controls

Menu

• - Select Option
• - Confirm
• - Back

Mario Tour Overworld

• - Move/Select
• - Talk/Confirm
• - Run/Back
• / - Menu

Tennis Match

• - Move Character
• / - Hit the ball in a very weak manner.
• + - Topspin Shot, a red, powerful, high bouncing shot.
• + - Slice Shot, a blue, defensive shot with side spin and a low trajectory.
• + - Smash, the most powerful shot, clad in purple.
• → - Lob Shot, a high shot that aims for the back of the court with very high bounce.
• → - Drop Shot, a low, weak shot that barely glazes over the net with little bounce.

Play Modes

Mario Tennis has several different modes. The modes are Mario Tour, Exhibition, Linked Play, and Mario Minigames.

Mario Tour (Story Mode)

In Mario Tour, the player takes control of Alex or Nina. They are the new students trying to make their way up the ranks at the Royal Academy, a school for tennis. At the beginning of the game, the player gets to choose whether they are going to play singles or doubles matches, and can change between either whenever they want. The players partner can be either Harry or Kate.

In Mario Tour, the player's character does exercises with coaches and plays against higher ranked players in order to get a higher rank for him or herself. Higher ranks mean they can challenge better players. Eventually, they can get a high enough rank to enter the Island Open. After the Island Open the player can face Mario in singles on the Castle Court. In doubles, both Mario and Peach.

As the player progresses through the ranks, the player gets to increase their characters ability in different areas (similar to an RPG).

Exhibition

In this mode, the player plays a single game of tennis. The player may choose what character both they and the computer uses as well as the court and computer's difficulty level. Both singles and doubles are available in Exhibition.

Linked Play

Linked Play is just like Exhibition Mode, except that the player plays against another human player instead of a computer. Linked Play requires two Game Boy Colors, two copies of Mario Tennis for the GBC, and a link cable. This mode was removed from the 3DS Virtual Console release due to multiplayer support being removed.

Mario Minigames

This is a group of minigames presented by various Nintendo characters. Minigames are unlocked when their respective characters are unlocked, meaning that half of them need a Nintendo 64 Transfer Pak to be unlocked. The minigames include:

Name	Image	Character Used	Description
Boo Blast		Mario	This Minigame sees Mario rallying a ball with Luigi, trying to hit Boos that hover above the net. The score doubles with each hit for a maximum of 128 points per hit.
Shooting Stars	File:LuigiShootingStars.PNG	Luigi	This game involves playing as Luigi to smash stars. More points are collected for each consecutive hit.
Target Shot		Baby Mario	In this game, Baby Mario must hit the ball into the targeted area. Hitting the appropriate shot will deliver more points.
Banana Bunch		Donkey Kong	Donkey Kong must bounce a ball on a wall with Banana panels on it. The panels give out points based on the amount of Bananas on it.

• Perfect Shot
• Fruit Factory
• Treasure Box
• Medallion Match
• Two-On-One

Nintendo 64 Transfer

With a copy of Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64, a Nintendo 64, a Transfer Pak, and a copy of Mario Tennis for the GBC, it is possible to transfer information between the two versions of the game. Characters from the Game Boy Color game can be transferred to the Nintendo 64 game and vice-versa.

Characters

There are many characters in this game. All characters have different statistics, making each of them unique. Most characters need to be unlocked by beating them in the Mario Tour. Some Mario characters need to be unlocked by a N64 Transfer Pak.the N64 transfer pak characters are not usable in the 3DS version. Below is a full list of all of the characters in the game. The nine Mario characters were taken from the N64 version while six playable characters need to be unlocked.

Mario Characters

Character	Skill Type	Unlock Condition
red	All-Around	Beat in Singles
Template:Color-link-piped	Technique	Beat in Doubles
green	All-Around	Initially Playable
brown	Power	Initially Playable
red	Speed	Initially Playable
lightgreen	Speed	N64 Transfer Pak, not usable in the 3DS version
gold	Power	N64 Transfer Pak, not usable in the 3DS version
purple	Technique	N64 Transfer Pak, not usable in the 3DS version
darkgreen	Power	N64 Transfer Pak, not usable in the 3DS version

Mario Tour Members

These characters must be created before they are usable.

Alex		Nina		Harry		Kate
Bonuses:	+1 Stroke +2 Dash	Bonuses:	+1 Placement +1 Reaction	Bonuses:	+1 Top +1 Angle +2 Serve +1 Speed	Bonuses:	+1 Slice +2 Angle +1 Serve +1 Dash
Story Role	Player	Story Role	Player	Story Role	Player's Partner	Story Role	Player's Partner

Species Members

• Allie (Speed)
• Joy (Technique)
• Brian (All-Around)

Unlockable Characters

Species Members

• Pam (All-Around) (Unlocked by completing Singles in Junior Champ)
• Bob (Power) (Unlocked by completing Singles in Junior Champ)
• Beth (Speed) (Unlocked by completing Singles in Junior Champ)
• Fay (Power) (Unlocked by completing Singles in Senior Champ)
• Curt (Tricky) (Unlocked by completing Singles in Senior Champ)

Notable Members

• Mark (All-Around) (Defeat him in Mario Tour by Doubles in Varsity Squad)
• Sammi (Techinique) (Defeat her in Mario Tour by Singles or Doubles in Island Open)
• Sean (All-Around) (Defeat him in Mario Tour by Doubles in Island Open)
• Spike (All-Around) (Defeat him in Mario Tour by Singles or Doubles in Island Open)
• Elden (Speed) (Defeat him in Mario Tour by Doubles in Island Open)
• Emily (Speed) (Defeat her in Mario Tour by Singles in Island Open)
• A. Coz (Tricky) (Defeat him in Mario Tour by Singles or Doubles in Island Open)
• B. Coz (Power) (Defeat him in Mario Tour by Doubles in Island Open)

Non-Playable Characters

Mario Characters

• Daisy
• Boo
• Toad
• Bob-omb
• Great Fairy of Victory
• Lakitu

N64 Status Icon Cameos

N64 on GBC Icon

• Birdo
• Paratroopa
• Donkey Kong Jr.
• Shy Guy
• Hammer Bro
• Goomba

Notable Members

• Kevin
• Frank
• Ellis
• Edgar
• Headmaster

Courts

Image	Name	Ball Speed	Bounce	Area	Unlock Condition
	Grass Court	Fast	Weak	Island Open	Available Initially
	Hard Court	Normal	Strong	Royal Tennis Academy	Available Initially
	Clay Court	Slow	Weak	Royal Tennis Academy	Available Initially
	Composition Court	Fastest	Normal	Royal Tennis Academy	Available Initially
	Castle Court	Normal	Normal	Peach's Castle	Beat Level 3 of Shooting Stars
	Tropics Court	Fastest	Weak	Mario World	Beat Level 3 of Target Shot
	Jungle Court	Fast	Strongest	Mario World	Beat Level 3 of Banana Bunch
	Star Court	Fast	Strong	Mario World	Have everything marked with a star on the Clear Status menu.
	Warehouse Court	Slow	Strong	Mario World	Beat every Mario character in exhibition with a Mario character. This court is not unlockable on Virtual Console since this requires characters transferred from the N64 version with the Transfer Pak.

Staff

Main article: List of Mario Tennis (Game Boy Color) staff

Gallery

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  Artwork of Mario

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  Artwork of Alex

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  The Royal Tennis Academy

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  Sprite of Baby Mario

Trivia

Daisy's appearance at Peach's side.

• Daisy, Boo, and Toad make supporting appearances at Peach's Castle. They are not playable, however.
• Yoshi, Bowser, Wario, and Waluigi are unlockable by linking the game up to the N64 version of Mario Tennis using a Transfer Pak, making this the only game where Yoshi is an unlockable character. Bowser, Wario, Waluigi and Luigi are unlockable in the same method in Mario Golf: Advance Tour by linking with Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour.
• Despite being the title character, Mario can only be played as after completing the Mario Tour.
• This is Waluigi's only appearance in a GB/GBC game.
• Characters and courts in this game, along with Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64 can no longer be transferred while playing the Virtual Console release, as the Nintendo 3DS is not compatible with the Nintendo 64/Game Boy Color Transfer Pak.
• This is the only Mario Tennis game where Mario and Peach are unlockable characters, making Luigi the only default character to appear in every Mario Tennis game.