Arcade Archives: Super World Court

This week's Arcade Archives release is... Super World Court (Namco, 1992)

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Both the Japanese and English ROMs are included, with the original typos (one of the courts takes place in the Franch Open) in-tact in the English version. No Preference Settings this time, but there is an odd edit- every single character name, aside from CAT (the cat), TINS (the robot) and MMM (the weird frog thing) have had their names changed, so MAX is now MAT, YURI is now YULI, etc.. This is actually alluded to in the manual (they mention that some things have been changed for this version but don't specify what) so that makes a change, thanks Hamster!
 

Sports, sports, sports sports... We'll keep it brief as usual, but this is a follow-up to 1988's Pro Tennis World Court on much beefier hardware- this is on Namco's NA-1 board, also home to Fighter & Attacker and Tinkle Pit and while the game's logo isn't nearly as nice as the original (big fan of that colourful logo), this has a nice presentation and adds to the original's character roster (which had a robot) by adding another robot, a weird frog thing and a cat called CAT who has murdered Pac-Man and will kill again. Just giving this a quick casual go, one thing surprised me- it didn't immediately kick my ass. The previous Namco tennis games I've played have made a point of completely humbling me from the off, but I was actually doing quite well in this one, scoring some points off the opponent and even a set or two! Maybe the cat is just overpowered, that'd make sense. Sorry this one's a little brief, but sports aren't my area, but hey, at least I know not to waffle like I know what I'm talking about when I don't! Ahem.