TOP TENNIS WORLD CLASS TENNIS COMES TO YOUR PC Features include: Video-captured animation Digitized sound effects Dos and Windows '95 compatible Realistic Gameplay Virtually everything you can do in a real tennis match, you can do in Top Tennis -volleys, lobs, dropshots, aces etc. A Dozen Tournaments around the world From London to Sydney, Paris to San Francisco. 4 Different Court Types Hard, Clay, Grass and Indoor -each with their own unique surface properties. 4 Levels of Difficulty Beginner, Intermediate, Pro and Top. Up to 4 Players at once 2 via keyboard, 2 via joystick. Training Perfect your game, before unleashing your talents on the world. Fully customizable, with serve and ball machine training. Replays Watch your winning moves again and again. A Range of Gameplay Play just a friendly, a tournament or a full season. Play a match with 3 sets or 5 sets, singles or doubles. Setup Requires: 386 or greater , VGA Supports: Mouse, Joystick, Soundblaster compatible sound card Dos Switch to the directory that you installed Top Tennis to. e.g. type "cd toptenn" Type "setup" at the command line Choose your soundcard and its settings Type "Tennis" to play the game Windows '95 Open the folder that you installed Top Tennis to There are two icons one for "Setup" and the other for "Tennis" Double click on the "Setup" icon and choose your soundcard setup Double click on the "Tennis" icon to start the action! Menu PLAY DEMO TRAINING OPTIONS Play Clicking on "Play" or hitting the "P" key from the main menu will take you to the Play menu. From here, you can choose to play a variety of different tennis matches. Friendly A one-off, friendly match, not part of any season or tournament. Tournament Choose any of 12 different tournaments to play in. Court types vary depending on the tournament. Only 1 tournament available in the shareware version. Full Season Play a full season. Try to work your way up through 12 tournaments from position number 64 in the world rankings to number 1. Not enabled in sharware version. Number Choose singles or doubles matches. In a doubles match, Player 1 + Player 3 always play against Player 2 + Player 4. CPU Level Determine how good a player your computer opponent will be. Beginner, Amateur, Pro or Top Match Length 3 or 5 sets. Court type 4 different types, each with their own unique ball bounces. Clay, Hard, Grass, Indoor. Not enabled in shareware version. Load Replay Load a saved replay. While playing a match, you can watch a replay of the last point by pressing the "F3" key while the score is still on the screen. Hall of Fame Here you can look at the great players of Top Tennis in your neck of the woods. DEMO Watch a sample game on your PC TRAINING Before you unleash your talents on the world, you might want to hone your skills. Here you can perfect your game to your hearts content. Serve Training Practice your service Machine Training Ball machine. Control where the machine throws the ball for each shot. 12 different possible shots (A - L). By default, the machine will cycle through each of them one by one. Serve position Fixed or Rotative. Stay in the same position during your training or change position after each shot. Machine Delay Short, Medium or Long. How fast the machine fires tennis balls at you. Court type Clay, Hard, Grass, Indoor. Not enabled in shareware version. OPTIONS Music Volume Sound FX Game Speed Normal, Low or High. Players 1 -4 Choose whether a player is the computer (CPU) or human on a keyboard or a joystick. Redefine Keyboard Calibrate Joystick How to Play The Rules of Tennis (only if you are unfamiliar with the game). A player, standing behind his baseline, uses a racket to serve the ball over the net. For the serve to be good, it has to land in the "service court" of the receiver. This is the rectangular area closest to the net and in front of the opposing player. It takes up about a quarter of one side. A point is scored when: one of the players fails to return the ball if the ball bounces twice on the same side of the court the ball lands outside the boundaries of the court ("OUT!") when the server fails to serve the ball properly (e.g. hitting the ball twice into the net or not serving it to the service court, again "OUT!" in Top Tennis). The court boundaries are demarcated by white lines. The outer set are for doubles matches, the inner set for singles matches A game is won, by the first player to win 4 points by a 2 point margin. The first point is called 15, the second 30, the third 40 and the fourth "game". A zero score is called "love". Hence a score during a game maybe "15 love" (15-0) if the server is winning, or "love 15" if the receiver of the serve is winning. If both sides reach 40 (a condition known as "deuce"), one of the players must win two consecutive points to win the game. After deuce, the next point is "advantage", as in "advantage Smith" (Smith being the name of the player who has just won the point). The next point after advantage, if Smith wins the next point as well, is game. If he loses the next point, the score reverts to deuce. The first side to win 6 games by a 2 game margin, wins a "Set". A match can consist of 3 or 5 sets. The first side to win 2 of 3, or 3 of 5 sets wins the match. Typically, women's or doubles matches consist of 3 sets. How to Play Top Tennis General keys during play: ESC to quit a match F3 Replay F5 Pause the game. Press F5 again to continue F10 Boss screen. Press F10 again to continue Serving: Press the Spacebar ("fire" button on a joystick) to throw the ball up in the air. As the ball falls, you hit it by pressing an Up or Down arrow key. Up causes your player to hit the ball hard, Down to hit it softly. When your player is serving from the other side of the court (furthest away from the camera viewpoint) these keys are reversed (Up is soft, Down is hard). The key to a good serve in Top Tennis is knowing just when to hit the ball as it falls. Remember you need to hit it inside the service court (see rules above). Practice makes perfect (you can always practice under Training from the main menu). You can adjust your shot to the right or left by pressing and holding the Right or Left arrow keys, just before hitting the ball. Summary: Press the Spacebar (or "fire" button on a joystick) to throw the ball in the air Wait for the ball to start falling Press and hold the Left or Right arrow key (optional) Press the Up or Down arrow key to hit the ball Returning the ball: To hit the ball back over the net, press the Spacebar (or the "fire" button on a joystick). The longer you hold the Spacebar before releasing it, the more powerful your return shot will be. Drive/backhand selection is automatic based on the position of the player in relation to the ball. You can adjust your shot to the right or left by pressing and holding the Right or Left arrow keys before releasing the Spacebar to hit the ball. Other shots: Lob Press and hold the Up arrow key before releasing the Spacebar to hit the ball. Dropshot Press and hold the Down arrow key before releasing the Spacebar to hit the ball. When your player is at the other side of the court (furthest away from the camera viewpoint) these keys are reversed. Summary: Press and hold the Spacebar (or "fire" button on a joystick) Press and hold the Left/Right/Up/Down arrow keys to direct your shot Release the Spacebar and arrow key to hit the ball Technical support If you encounter problems trying to setup or play the game, that are not solved by reading this manual, please contact us at: support@gamefactory.com or + 1 203 776 8608 Copyright (c) 1997, The Game Factory. All rights reserved. http://www.gamefactory.com/