Mario Power Tennis

Mario Power Tennis is the fourth installment in the overly popular Mario Tennis series. Currently, the game features more characters than any other in the series, featuring old favorites as well as new ones. However, some popular characters such as Toad and Birdo weren't in the game, though it has been suggested that Toad was originally going to be a playable character by his appearance in the beginning movie (on the score boards it showed both Toad and Toadette).

While previous entries in the series leaned on a more serious note, this game tends to be quite crazy by including insane obstacles and power shots, as well as more Mario themed things such as a Gooper Blooper boss and so forth. This game was later made into a New Play Control! game for the Wii.

Movie
When players play the game, the movie will automatically show up. Mario smashes the ball with his tennis racket so hard that his rivals Wario and Waluigi fail to serve it. Mario and his teammate Luigi win the match and celebrate while the opposing team loses and gets really frustrated. Next day, Wario and Waluigi walk to the Peach Dome to check the tournament board. Suddenly, they went furious when they got eliminated from tournament (their icon appears black and white with  drawn on it). Waluigi vandalized Luigi's icon with green pen while Wario made a negative change to Mario's icon with red pen. When they have finished vandalizing Mario & Luigi's icon, they got chased and caught by strange, weird-looking police officers. Wario and Waluigi managed to escape by going through a secret door to Bowser's room, not realizing that there is no floor. When they fell, all they saw is nothing but darkness, Bowser and his monitors. Bowser turned the light switch on and decided to help them defeat their opponents by training. After busy training and watching other characters play an official normal game of tennis, Wario, Waluigi, and Bowser makes a dastardly plan to delay the tournament finals and create tons of mischief. When tournament finals (Mario + Luigi vs. Yoshi + Donkey Kong), Bowser replaces Yoshi + DK image with Wario and Waluigi. The game's main antagonists start throwing a giant supply of Bob-ombs at the game's main protagonists, though Mario and Luigi manage to thwart them by serving Bob-ombs back at them. Bowser, hoping he is able to defeat Mario + Luigi, launches a Bullet Bill at them, but Mario still manages to serve it, creating a large explosion. But Bowser reveals that his airship had really huge supply of Bob-ombs, and throws them at Mario and Luigi. Mario serves the Bob-omb directly at the airship. The airship swallows it, but it starts to burn, making the airship get haywire. Wario and Waluigi starts to get doomed, being chased by the airship because Bowser is unable to control his airship. The airship gets broken and it creates an unbelievably huge white atomic blast, thus foiling the game's main antagonists' plan by 100%. The stadium, however, is not harmed, luckily. Wario, Bowser and Waluigi collapse after the great incident at Peach Dome.

All Around

 * Mario
 * Luigi

Speed

 * Yoshi
 * Diddy Kong
 * Koopa Troopa

Power

 * Bowser
 * Wario
 * Donkey Kong
 * Petey Piranha (Hidden)

Technique

 * Peach
 * Daisy
 * Shy Guy
 * Paratroopa (Hidden)

Defense

 * Waluigi
 * Wiggler (Hidden)

Tricky

 * Bowser Jr.
 * Boo
 * Fly Guy (Hidden)

Courts

 * Peach Dome 1
 * Peach Dome 2
 * Peach Dome 3
 * Luigi's Mansion
 * Wario Factory
 * Delfino Plaza
 * Gooper Blooper
 * DK Jungle
 * Bowser's Castle
 * Mario Classic