Snoopy Tennis

Don't expect to pay peanuts for it! A recent deal between United Feature Syndicate and Infogrames means that a whole slew of Snoopy-based games will be making their way to the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. The first of these games is Snoopy Tennis and the title, basically, says it all!

Taking the characters from the much-loved comic strip, the game places them in any one of the nine available courts to go ball-whacking crazy! There are eight characters to choose from including such favourites as Charlie Brown (obviously), Snoopy, Peppermint Patty and Lucy... to name but a few, and there are also four more hidden characters for you to unlock! Apart from the Championship mode there are also various other types of game available. These include Quick Matches, Sudden Win games and even Squash — if you fancy something more energetic — plus there is also a two-player link up!

Each player in the game has a special ability that gives them some advantage over their opponents and there are also power-ups to collect that grant you that little extra help if you need it! At the moment, Snoopy Tennis is definitely looking very promising. The graphics are detailed, bright and quite big, achieving the look of the original drawings rather nicely. However, with Mario Tennis on the scene already, Snoopy may have to have a few more tricks up its sleeve in order to persuade us to make the change from the fat Italian plumber to the lazy fat Beagle!

Snoopy Tennis doesn't have, it seems, any RPG elements or a facility for training the characters, which means that the game may not have quite the longevity of the Mario-themed offering. Snoopy Tennis does, however, look as though it will have some strong gameplay elements and it's certainly got endearing characters, so hopefully it will turn out to be more than a match for Mario and co!

Snoopy Tennis is a sports video game released in 2000, based on the Peanuts comic book characters by Charles Schulz. The game creates an atmosphere of friendly competition between comic book characters including Snoopy, Charlie Brown and others who participate in tennis matches.

Features

• In addition to the main matches, the game includes various mini-games
• Cartoonish graphics that follow the style of Charles Schulz's comic books
• The characters are controlled using simple button combinations to perform strokes, serves and special moves, so it is suitable for players of all ages, including children
• Multiplayer mode