International Tennis Open is a sports video game developed by Infogrames

Infogrames

Infogrames Entertainment SA was an international French holding company headquartered in Paris, France. It was the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, U.S. and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory...

 Multimedia and published by Philips Interactive Media

Philips

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 in 1992. It was released on four platforms: PC

Personal computer

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, Philips CD-i

CD-i

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, Mac

Macintosh

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 and DOS

DOS

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. The UK version of the game is available in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 as it is a French game.

Plot

Players take on the role of "Victor Player" - An experienced player whose nationality

Nationality

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 depends on what language

Language

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 has been selected. There are several different gameplay

Gameplay

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 styles. Match - Allows players to play a single game of tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

. Tournament

Tournament

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 - Allows players to play a series of games against various opponents. Training - Allows players to practice before playing a game. This involved playing against a ball throwing machine.

Inbetween or at the start of games, sports commentator

Sports commentator

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George Eddy would comment on the game.

External links

• http://www.mobygames.com/game/cd-i/international-tennis-open