Sega Superstars Tennis

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SMASH IT UP WITH SEGA'S SUPERSTARS!

— Tagline

Sega Superstars Tennis is a tennis game and the second title in the Sega Superstars crossover series. It is also the first in the series developed by Sumo Digital, crossing over numerous Sega franchises, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Alex Kidd, Space Channel 5 and 12 more. It was released in March 2008. In 2013, Sega and Feral Interactive announced that the game was available for Mac OS X on its following summer along with Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. The Mac OS X version of Sega Superstars Tennis features online multiplayer by using Game Center.

Gameplay

• Superstar Mode allows the player to play missions in the worlds of SEGA which include exhibition matches, tournaments and tasks based around a specific Sega game including Sonic the Hedgehog, Puyo Pop Fever and Virtua Cop. Completing missions unlocks items such as courts, stages, soundtracks and characters.
• Exhibition Mode offers the chance to challenge a character to a match on one of many courts, including Sonic's home court of Green Hill Zone, or Amigo's Carnival Park court. Whichever court is chosen, there are a host of Sega celebrities cheering them on from court side.
• Tournament Mode allows the player to play in a series of matches against opponents chosen at random by the computer in an arena also chosen at random.

There are several playable minigames in Sega Superstars Tennis, including ones from Sega games such as a House of the Dead meets Space Invaders game, in which the player has to hit moving targets in the form of zombies, a Space Harrier game, a Puyo Puyo game, and a Virtua Cop game.

Each character has their own unique special attack giving the player more chance of scoring a point. For example: Gilius throws a magic bottle in the air and covers the opponent's side with thunderbolts, if they touch one the character will be stunned for a brief moment, or Sonic's signature "Super Sonic" attack, which causes the tennis ball to zig-zag in various directions around the court when he hits the ball.

Platform differences

• Sega Superstars Tennis in the Wii version.
  Sega Superstars Tennis in the Wii version.
• Sega Superstars Tennis in the Xbox 360 version.
  Sega Superstars Tennis in the Xbox 360 version.

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions both have online play, while the Wii version has three different control schemes (motion control, Wii Remote sideways, and Wii Remote with Nunchuk). The Nintendo DS version of the game can be played with Directional buttons, or utilize the stylus. Between the HD version and the Wii version visual-wise, the models in the latter are of low quality, making the spectators' limbs jagged (mostly Silver and Blaze's). The lighting on the models overall, including the models, especially when doing special poses, are likewise very poor. Also, whereas the shot balls have yellow trails on the HD version, the shot balls on the Wii version display specific trails (yellow, blue, green) depending on its power.

The number of missions also varies between the HD version and the Wii version, and the former has more missions than the latter. In addition to that, the HUD of the Wii version is simpler than that displayed on the HD version.

Playable characters

• Amy Rose (Unlockable by winning the second mission in Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Dr. Eggman
• Miles "Tails" Prower
• Shadow the Hedgehog (Unlockable by winning the last mission in Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Sonic the Hedgehog

Other series

• AiAi (Super Monkey Ball)
• Alex Kidd (Alex Kidd) (Unlockable by winning the only mission in Alex Kidd)
• Amigo (Samba De Amigo)
• Beat (Jet Set Radio)
• Gilius Thunderhead (Golden Axe) (Unlockable by winning the only mission in Golden Axe)
• Gum (Jet Set Radio) (Unlockable by winning the last mission in Jet Set Radio)
• MeeMee (Super Monkey Ball) (Unlockable by winning the eighth mission in Super Monkey Ball)
• Nights (Nights into Dreams)
• Pudding (Space Channel 5) (Unlockable by winning the first mission in Space Channel 5)
• Reala (Nights into Dreams) (Unlockable by winning the second mission in Nights into Dreams)
• Ulala (Space Channel 5)

Superstar States

Character	Superstar State	Type
Sonic	Super Sonic	Speed
Dr. Eggman	Electric Spike Ball	Power
Tails	Whirlwind	Spin
Amy	Lover Heart Stun	All Round
Shadow	Super Shadow	Speed
Nights	Nightopian	All Round
Reala	Nightmare	All Round
Ulala	Morolian Invasion	Control
Pudding	Guitar Showdown	Control
Amigo	Maraca Madness	Power
Gilius Thunderhead	Golden Hit	Power
AiAi	Banana Blitz!!!	Spin
MeeMee	Flower Power	Spin
Beat	Graffiti Floor	Speed
Gum	Police!!!	Speed
Alex Kidd	Rock, Paper, Scissors!!!	Control

Cast

Role	Voice actor
	English	French	Italian	German	Spanish
Announcer	Casey Robertson				Anna Orra
Sonic	Jason Griffith
Shadow
Tails	Amy Palant
Eggman	Mike Pollock
Amy	Lisa Ortiz
Aiai	Kaoru Morota
MeeMee	Konami Yoshida
Nights	Julissa Aguirre
Reala	Casey Robertson
Ulala	Apollo Smile
Pudding	Sumalee Montano
Beat	Casey Robertson
Gum	Julissa Aguirre
Alex Kidd
Gilius Thunderhead	Casey Robertson

Courts

Sonic courts

File:Sega-superstars-tennis-screens-200.jpg

Green Hill Zone.

There are two courts featured in this game from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, both originating from the first game.

Green Hill Zone: Green Hill was fitted with a tennis court with various characters making cameo appearances around the field, mainly Chao, but also Blaze the Cat, Silver the Hedgehog, Knuckles the Echidna and Big the Cat. This is where many missions in Sonic's world in Superstar Mode take place, including a singles tournament with various Sonic characters. The court features four unlockable music tracks of levels from previous Sonic games: Seaside Hill, Ocean Palace, a System Screen Select and Green Hill Zone.

Scrap Brain Zone: Having not used this place for about 15 years there is no reason for Eggman not to turn his old fortress into a tennis court. On one the side of the court is the machine Eggman used as the final boss from Final Zone, still moving up and down. Spectating from the sideline is Metal Sonic and the Egg Gunners from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). This is also the location of many of the missions in Superstar mode. In these missions, Egg Gunners fire at the player while the goal is to collect rings and avoid bombs. There are a number of unlockable music tracks for this court from different Sonic games, such as from Final Fortress, Bullet Station, Egg Fleet, and Scrap Brain Zone.

Other courts

• Space Port 9 (Space Channel 5)
• Splash Garden (Nights into Dreams)
• Coconut Beach (Outrun)
• Carrier Zone (After Burner)
• Curien Mansion (The House of The Dead)
• Super Monkey Ball (Super Monkey Ball)
• Shiubuya DownTown (Jet Set Radio)
• Carnival Park (Samba De Amigo)

Mini-games and side-missions

• Puyo Pop Fever: In this minigame, the player plays Puyo Pop but controlling the popping gun as a racket with the character of choice to clear the Puyo wall.
• Space Harrier: In this minigame, the player must throw the ball against a number of series of robot, alien, machines and meteorites the constantly come time by time when difficulty increases.
• Virtua Squad: In this one, the player plays a classic game of the original Virtual Cop but with a tennis racket and a ball, aiming at the cardboard thieves that will shoot you in a time of 10 second each.
• Jet Set Radio: The player gets a spray color from a grinding man how throws them at you, when you get those time by time, you are to hit the ball across the net in to an opacity graffiti to match its colors.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: In this one, the player can free roam on the court and dodge electric spikes thrown by robots and collect as many rings as possible. Several monitor power-ups like Invincibility and Speed Shoes are available.
• Super Monkey Ball: The player has to counter large balls and collect bananas and hand them into time gates before time runs out.
• Chu Chu Rocket: The player has to guide mice into rockets, using tennis balls to change the arrow's direction.
• Curien Mansion: The player must defeat zombies and rescue civilians to survive.

Achievements

These are the achievements for the Xbox 360 version of Sega Superstars Tennis:

Image	Name	Description
File:SSSTSprite2.jpg	Default	Turn on the game for the first time.
File:SSSTSprite4.jpg	Play Ball	Win your first match
File:SSSTSprite4.jpg	Starting Grid	Win with all 8 starting characters
File:SSSTSprite4.jpg	Step into SEGA World	Complete your first Challenge (Rank A)
File:SSSTSprite4.jpg	Mouse Mania!	Rescue 500 ChuChus over time!
File:SSSTSprite4.jpg	Surf the Net	Win a Match on Xbox LIVE
File:SSSTSprite4.jpg	Space Channel 5	Watch a match on TV
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Cameo Appearance	Hit a SEGA court cameo
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	To The Max	Hit 3 Max serves in a row
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Seeing Stars	Enter Superstar mode 10 times in a match
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	SEGA Rally	Hit a 40 shot rally
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Top Gun	Hit 100 aces
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	After Burner	Hit a serve over 100 mph / 160km/h
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	OutRun	Run a total of 10 kilometers / 6 miles.
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Classic Complete	Complete all Challenges in one SEGA game (Rank A)
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Climb the Ladder	Win the final stage in Tournament mode
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Zombie Hunter!	Hit an 8 zombie combo!
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Master Tagger!	Clear a Tag without missing a shot!
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Puyo Puyo!	Clear a 20 Puyo combo!
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Super Sonic	Collect 7 Chaos Emeralds in one game!
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Dragon Slayer!	Destroy the Final Squilla in under 20 seconds!
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Pot Black!	Clear 4 Trick Shots in one game!
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Supercop!	Destroy Kong without being hit!
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Top of the Tree	Win a Tournament on Xbox LIVE
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Top Ranker	Win 10 Xbox LIVE Ranked matches
File:SSSTSprite3.jpg	Let's Get Friendly	Win 10 Xbox LIVE Player matches
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Beat them All	Beat all characters in Singles matches
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Original Teams	Beat all the classic Doubles pairs
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Challenges 101	Complete all Challenges in all SEGA games (Rank A)
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	To be this good takes AGES	Complete all Challenges in all SEGA games (Rank AAA)
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Full Roster	Unlock all Secret Characters
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Play the Field	Unlock all Secret Courts
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Score Attacker	Unlock all Ball Games
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Magical Sound Shower	Unlock all Secret Music Tracks
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Secret Stage	Beat the hidden stage in Tournament mode
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Party Time	Play each type of Ball Game Multiplayer
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Ball Buddies	Win 5 Xbox LIVE Doubles matches
File:SSSTSprite1.jpg	Swinging Report Show	Become a TV Superstar

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	67% (X360) 67% (PS3) 70% (PS2) 71% (Wii) 65% (DS)
Review scores
Publication	Score

Sega Superstars Tennis received mixed reviews from critics, with the games score on Metacritic sitting at 67% for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, 70% for the PlayStation 2, 71% for the Wii version, and a 65 out of 100 for the Nintendo DS version.

Trivia

• In Doctor Who Adventures Magazine issue 56, this game was given away as one of the two competition prizes.
• Oddly, in the demo of this game, Shadow is one of the few characters the player is able to play as. In the actual game, he is an unlockable.
• Quotes from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) were used in this game such as "My, that's a pretty snazzy performance there!" (Sonic), "Who are you, and how do you know my name?" (Shadow) and "See, I told you I could do it!" (Tails).
• Knuckles, Big, and Metal Sonic all were cameo characters in this game who later became playable characters in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.
  • Silver and Blaze also appear in the game as cameos.
• In the opening cinematic, Amigo is seen using his maracas as a racket. However in the gameplay, Amigo uses a real tennis racket.
• In the opening cinematic, Eggman uses a backpack with tennis rackets on it. In the game, he does not use such a thing.
• This is the only game where it has different ratings from the ESRB in each console. It has an E10+ rating on the home console version and an E rating on the Nintendo DS version.
• The rackets used by the characters seems to be based on a classic racket used in the late 1960s, as opposed to modern day rackets.
• Sega Superstars Tennis was ported to Mac OS X along with Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. However, Sega Superstars Tennis was never released for Microsoft Windows.
  • Both games have since had their Mac OS X versions delisted from Feral Interactive's storefront due to subsequent macOS releases from Catalina and onward having removed support for 32-bit applications.
• Due to the series being banned in Germany, this game referred the House of the Dead series as Curien Mansion. This is carried over to future Sega Superstars titles.
• All 16 characters in this game are all playable in Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed.
• Dr. Eggman and Shadow are featured in the Special Stage after completing the Doubles Tournament.
• Pudding's quotes were reused from Space Channel 5 Part 2, but her design is from Space Channel 5.
• When the PlayStation 2 version is played on a software emulation-based backwards compatible PlayStation 3, character models will always have flickering textures and stretched out polygons, and the game often freezes after a while.
• Though the PlayStation 2 version of Sega Superstars Tennis has an in-game widescreen setting, only the menu and HUD elements are adjusted for widescreen; the in-game display is stretched from 4:3.
• Sega Superstars Tennis is the only game featuring Sonic on the PlayStation 2 that prompts the player if they would like to activate progressive scan without the need to hold down a button combination—Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Sonic Riders, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, and Sonic Unleashed all require the player to hold down File:PSTriangleButton.png and Cross during start-up to bring up the prompt, and Sega Genesis Collection requires the player to access the Options menu to enable it.
• Sega Superstars Tennis and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) are the only Sonic games released on the PlayStation 3 that lack trophy support.
  • Sega Superstars Tennis and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) are also the only PlayStation 3 Sonic titles to have some of their button mappings swapped from their Xbox 360 counterparts; in the Xbox 360 version, Superstar States are activated with the triggers (Template:LT Button (Xbox) or Template:RT Button (Xbox)). In the PS3 (and PS2) version(s), they are instead mapped to the shoulder buttons (L1 or R1), regardless of the four in-game controller configurations.

Videos

TrailerCommercial (Wii)Interview

File:Sega Superstars Tennis Trailer

File:Sega Superstar Tennis (Wii) USA Commercial

File:Sega Superstars Tennis interview by Gamereactor

External links

• Sega Superstars Tennis at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sonic the Hedgehog spin-off games

Sega Master System	Sonic Spinball (1994) · Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (1994)
Sega Mega Drive	Sonic Eraser (1991) · Sonic Spinball (1993) · Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (1993) · Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio (1994) · Knuckles' Chaotix (1995, 32X) · Sonic 3D Blast (1996)
Sega Saturn	Sonic 3D Blast (1996) · Sonic R (1997)
Sega All-Stars	Sega Superstars (2004, PS2) · Sega Superstars Tennis (2008, multi-platform) · Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010, multi-platform) · Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (2012, multi-platform)
Sonic Riders	Sonic Riders (2006, multi-platform) · Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (2008, multi-platform) · Sonic Free Riders (2010, Xbox 360)
Sonic Storybook Series	Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007, Wii) · Sonic and the Black Knight (2009, Wii)
Mario & Sonic	Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2007, multi-platform) · Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (2009, multi-platform) · Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2011, Wii) · Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2012, 3DS) · Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (2013, Wii U) · Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (2016, multi-platform) · Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (2019, Switch)
Super Smash Bros.	Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, Wii) · Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (2014, 3DS) · Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (2014, Wii U) · Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018, Switch)
Sonic Boom	Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (2014, Wii U) · Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal (2014, 3DS) · Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom (2015, mobile) · Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice (2016, 3DS)
Arcade and redemption machines	Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car (1991) · UFO SegaSonic (1992) · Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) · SegaSonic Popcorn Shop (1993) · SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter (1993) · SegaSonic the Hedgehog (1993) · Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1993) · Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) · Air Circus (1994) · Curling Holiday (1994) · Sonic's Space Tours (1994/1999) · Sonic the Fighters (1996) · Sonic the Hedgehog (1997) · Sonic & Tails Spinner (2002) · CR Sonic (2003) · Sonic Spinner (2007) · Sonic Live! (2008) · Sonic Sports Basketball (2010) · Sonic Sports Air Hockey (2010) · Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Arcade (2011) · Sonic Athletics (2013) · Sonic Ghost Shooting (2013) · Sonic Brain Ranking (2013) · Sonic Dash Extreme (2015) · Sonic Blast Ball (2015) · Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Arcade Edition (2016) · Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - Arcade Edition (2020)
Other	Puzzle Construction (1991, TeraDrive) · Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld (1994, Pico) · Tails and the Music Maker (1994, Pico) · Sonic's Schoolhouse (1996, PC) · Sonic Shuffle (2000, Dreamcast) · Shadow the Hedgehog (2005, multi-platform) · Sega Splash! Golf (2008, PC) · Sonic the Hedgehog (2008, Didj) · Team Sonic Racing (2019, multi-platform) · Sega Streaming Theater Sonic Edition (2021, PC) · Sonic Speed Simulator (2022, multi-platform) · The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (2023, PC)
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