Court

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Diagram of a tennis court from Mario Tennis|s manual
Diagram of a court provided in the instruction manual of Mario Tennis

Courts are sports venues on which tennis games are played in the Mario Tennis series and the tennis mode of Mario Sports Superstars. Each court is a rectangular shape with two sides divided by a low net stretched across the middle. Each side of the court is further divided into the backcourt, the service boxes and the doubles alleys, the latter of which is only used during doubles matches. In Mario games, courts have various different types of surfaces, each with two main properties: The speed and bounce height of balls played on them. The most common surfaces are grass, hard and clay, present in every Mario Tennis game and in Mario Sports Superstars. Courts can also often have other unique surfaces, such as mushroom or ice.

The Gimmick Court mode from Mario Power Tennis and Mix It Up mode from Mario Tennis Fever allow certain courts to be played with unique effects, such as including items and obstacles in the court, or changing the size or shape of the playing area. Minigames can often be played on courts, drastically changing their rules and layouts.

Main Mario Tennis courts[edit]

Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64)[edit]

Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64 features 18 courts, the highest number in the series. Of those, four are available from the start, six are unlockable by playing the game, another six are unlocked by playing minigames on the Game Boy Color version of the game and two are exclusive to special games. The unlockable courts are all themed to different characters, featuring art of them on the courts' surfaces.

  1. ^ a b Exclusive to Special Games
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Unlockable

Mario Tennis (Game Boy Color)[edit]

Mario Tennis for the Game Boy Color has nine courts. Four are available by default, four can be unlocked by playing the game, and the last one can be unlocked by connecting to the Nintendo 64 version of the game. The unlockable courts take place in a variety of locations outside of a tennis stadium.

  1. ^ a b c d e Unlockable

Mario Power Tennis[edit]

Mario Power Tennis features ten total courts, with eight default and two unlockable courts. The game also introduces the concept of Gimmick courts, which make up seven of the ten total courts. Gimmick courts are based on locations across the Super Mario franchise and feature obstacles and other elements which can be interacted with to hinder or help the player. Gimmick courts can also be played without gimmicks. Mario Power Tennis also features for the first time courts which take place in the same location, with the Peach Dome featuring Hard, Clay and Grass court layouts. This would go on to become a reoccuring trait of those three specific courts in later Mario Tennis games.

  1. ^ a b Unlockable

Mario Tennis: Power Tour[edit]

Mario Tennis: Power Tour features five courts, the lowest number in the series. Only one of them is unlockable.

  1. ^ Unlockable

Mario Tennis Open[edit]

Mario Tennis Open has 11 courts in total, with two of them being unlockable. Like Mario Power Tennis, Mario Tennis Open introduces more courts with separate names from their types of surfaces, such as the Mushroom Valley having a Mushroom Court. Some of those court surfaces would become recurring in later games, despite their specific courts not returning. Mario Stadium has this game's Grass, Clay and Hard surfaces, and the Galaxy Arena has separate Crystal and Morph surfaces.

  1. ^ a b Unlockable

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash[edit]

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash has nine courts many of them reusing types from Mario Tennis Open. Despite this, all of them take place within the same stadium, unlike the previous game's varied environments. Three courts are available by default while the rest can be purchased with coins or earned by playing multiple matches.

  1. ^ a b c d e f Unlockable

Mario Tennis Aces[edit]

Mario Tennis Aces features ten total courts, with the four Marina Stadium (Hard, Clay, Grass and Night) being unlocked by default and the other six being unlocked in the game's Adventure mode. All courts in this game are set in the Kingdom of Bask.

  1. ^ a b c d e f Unlockable

Mario Tennis Fever[edit]

Mario Tennis Fever includes 18 total courts. The Stadium Court features the classic Grass, Hard and Clay courts, while the Academy Court features all three plus six other types. Of the remaining six courts, four have special rules which can be played in the game's Mix It Up mode.