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Tennis	ball and paddle sport tennis	1972	image specs screenshots machines company oc_id source /media/museum/software/magnavox_odyssey_tennis_ss.jpg label value year of release 1972 label value companies Magnavox label value type game label value media cartridge label value systems Magnavox Odyssey label value number of players 2 players (versus) label value staff Ralph Baer, Bill Harrison, Bill Rusch title subtitle text image /media/museum/software/magnavox_odyssey_tennis_ss.jpg title subtitle text image Documentation - page 1 /media/museum/software/magnavox_odyssey_tennis_doc_1.jpg title subtitle text image Documentation - page 2 /media/museum/software/magnavox_odyssey_tennis_doc_2.jpg /museum/magnavox-odyssey /companies/magnavox 64 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230614011028/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=64 2023-06-14

As its counterpart Table Tennis, this game is the first tennis video game ever and also the first pong game. No score displayed on the screen here, you have to count yourself.

The game itself is pretty basic, but the Odyssey had something quite interesting: the English control. Indeed, in addition to vertical and horizontal movements, the Odyssey controlers featured an English control knob, a kind of spin effect controled by the player. This made Tennis and most of the Odyssey games more interesting than they look.