Super Tennis [SNES] - play as Don J
This a demonstration using Don J in the SNES game Super Tennis. Read on below for more information...
Don J is a special hidden boss you can play against at the end of the Circuit mode of the game, providing that you win the 4 Grand Slam tournaments during the tour.
He is a non-selectable character.
The video is structured in various sections:
1) The first section will show me playing a 1-set match against the CPU using Don J. This starts at the beginning of the video.
2) The second section will show Don J winning each of the 4 Grand Slam tournaments in Circuit mode. It will show his last and winning service game against the final opponent of each tournament, as well as the trophy presentation. This begins at 9:25 in the video.
3) You can see his Circuit mode ending at 14:05.
4) The third section will show a 1-set match against CPU Don J (as a result of winning the 4 Grand Slam tournaments). This begins at 14:27.
5) You can see what happens if you defeat CPU Don J, beginning at 17:35.
===== About Don J =====
Don J is a special character in the game in that he has a design element that is unique only to him - and that element is that he is bald. I think his colour palette is also unique only to him as well.
Gameplay-wise, Don J is the absolute best character in the game. He has one gameplay element that is unique only to him - and that is the fact that he has super speed in his movement. No other character in the game (there's a total of 64 characters) has this speed. With this speed, he is able to reach and return opposition shots that would otherwise be impossible for any other character. His shot statistics such as his serve, forehand, backhand, slice and volleying are the best as well.
===== Additional Information =====
---- Don J uses Amy's image portrait as his portrait.
---- In a regular match, when the characters change ends in the scene, Don J's head is flawed when he walks past. It's actually a regular character's head with flawed colours. This is because he is not normally seen in the change ends scene, which explains why in the legitimate Exhibition boss match against him, the change ends scene is automatically skipped.
---- In Circuit mode, his name never appears in it.
---- In Circuit mode, if you try to play through it with him, he doesn't register in the brackets and rankings. This means that even if you defeat the first opponent in a tournament, you cannot progress. Instead, it marks it down as a "loss" before heading to the next tournament.
---- In Circuit mode, his name does appear in the ending statistics screen after the last tournament.
---- In Circuit mode, after the last tournament, his head is flawed when walks to the building in his ending.
---- It is odd on why his head is messed up in the change ends scenes when he walks past, because his proper walk animations are already in the game. It is used after he wins/loses a match, when he walks up to the net, shakes the opponent's hand and walks off.
---- His super speed is a completely unique aspect of the game, separate from the other characters. Even if you use the method to change the character gameplay statistics (this method is within the game), you will NOT get Don J's super speed even if set all the values to the highest.
---- The game has a total of 64 characters. 20 are playable and 44 are non-playable. The 44 unplayable characters (including Don J) all appear in Circuit mode as CPU opponents. Because this is a tennis game, the only differences between each character are their gameplay statistics, colour palettes and hair design, as well as their names obviously. The unplayable characters are usually much "weaker" characters - with the exception of Don J of course.
---- The Japanese version of the game is known as Super Tennis World Circuit.
---- In the Japanese version of the game, Don J is called Tonkin and plays right-handed instead.
===== About Super Tennis =====
In the SNES era, I believe that this was the best 16-bit tennis game. The gameplay is superb and very addicting, and still holds up even to this day. The shot-making is real time and immediate in this game, so you better get into the correct positions and time your strokes right otherwise you'll miss shots completely. It's not like modern tennis games where you are able to waltz into a nearby position where the ball is going and just hold the shot button down to wait to return the ball. That won't work in Super Tennis. =)