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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/