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Camelot enrolled a student you create at a tennis academy and named the Game Boy Advance story Mario Tennis: Power Tour. Nintendo published it in 2005. Matches and training build that player, then a circuit of tournaments changes the bounce underfoot.
Clay holds and slows the ball, grass skids, and a hard court sends it back quickly. A weak serve becomes dangerous only after the academy has raised the stat behind it. A partner joins for doubles, so the trip is not a line of solo exhibitions against Mario's friends.
The Game Boy Color tennis game is another cartridge with its own story. This academy, this made-to-order athlete, and these traveling events belong to the Advance campaign Camelot wrote. Ignoring the surface is a good way to lose a point you thought you had read.
In Japan the same story carried a different official title, Mario Tennis Advance. Mario and the familiar roster still appear around the tour, yet the rallies that grow your student are the campaign. Court by court, the custom player is the person the story is actually about.
Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.
First developer on the RAWG card: Camelot Software Planning.
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