Pro Tennis

198? Clockwize Platform: Amstrad CPC A short entry for an early Tennis game that was in development at Clockwize for the Amstrad CPC, and preserved thanks to Dean Hickingbottom. Unfortunately, it didn’t get very far at all – but we have a very early glimpse for you to take a look at. The prototype just has a simple scrolling tennis court, with two players either end – the first of which can be moved around, but you cannot really hit the ball or anything, but you can make it move by pressing fire and moving the joystick. If you get the movement just right, it will scroll the pitch up and down. It was simply just at a test stage by its creator David Bradley, who did the graphics and the code. Lurking on one of the disks was also a credits image which gives the game the name “Pro Tennis”. Of course, Codemasters released a Pro Tennis game on the Amstrad CPC – so could this have been a pitch from Clockwize to do the game? Hopefully we will learn more in time – but this sadly seems to be…