This speedy table tennis game was originally released only in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. Now, over 20 years later, it makes its European debut on Virtual Console!

Play against the CPU or a friend in a best-of-three table tennis showdown! The goal of the game is to reach a set amount of points while maintaining a two-point lead. If you can do this, you win the game. If you reach the set amount but the scores are tied, you go into "deuce" and have to score two points in a row to win. Read More »

Use the full range of controls – smash, lob, forehand and backhand – to beat your opponent and send the crowd wild. And look out for a special appearance by Donkey Kong Jr. in the audience!

Review

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 by Marcel Van Duyn

Smash Table Tennis delivers a backhand to your wallet.

Sometimes, you just have to wonder who at Nintendo is in charge of the Virtual Console game selection. Perhaps it's one of those people who, when unable to decide what to do, throws a dart at a dartboard with possible "options" on it in order to..

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User Comments

1. William 31 Jan 2008, 15:22 GMT

Just treat yourself to a brand new table tennis set instead

2. mario221 02 Feb 2008, 16:37 GMT

Was this as bad as the other sports games?

3. MasterMario 15 Mar 2008, 16:13 GMT

This is probalby as bad as tennis.

4. Adamant 04 Apr 2008, 00:45 BST

I played the MSX version of this, and it failed to hold my interest very long.
It's a tad more advanced than Nintendo's Tennis, but not a whole lot, and there aren't exactly a whole slew of opponents to test your wits against. Then again, it's not like it has a whole lot of competition - maybe rabid Ping-pong fans will find it more interesting.

5. Kobayashi 06 Apr 2008, 19:58 BST

This game for MSX is awesome ! Really fantastic !

6. Bensei 03 May 2008, 19:44 BST

Why is there Diskun?

7. Terranigma 03 Jun 2008, 16:22 BST

Family Table Tennis will probably make this a redundant release. Or, competition for it, which this would probably lose

8. Jona 28 Jun 2008, 08:51 BST

yay!!! a ping pong game 4 the nes. kool

9. Ricardo91 11 Aug 2008, 00:25 BST

This looks an awful lot like nes Tennis, and that's not a compliment. I'd rather invest in a real ping pong table instead. At least we're not getting it (for now, anyway). Hopefully NoA will give us a better imprt title instead.

@Bensei. Diskun's there because it's a Disk System game.

10. Jona 27 Sep 2008, 18:32 BST

im a ping pong whore and ill buy anything ping pong. if this game comes out 4 NA. im getting it... but i hav a feeling its gona b a hanabi 4 europe.

11. marktheshark 31 Oct 2008, 18:58 GMT

@Mr. Cheez

so your saying that you want Ninty to deprive the few fans of this game?! How could you

12. Terranigma 29 Dec 2008, 12:26 GMT

I recently bought a real table tennis table set so i will never buy this or Family Table Tennis

13. tatemon555 01 Jan 2009, 02:17 GMT

This looks like it'll be very awesome, maybe better then all Mario games, Zelda games, and all those other ones.

Oh, and by the way, that was 100% sarcasm. This game will suck as much as a vacuum cleaner.

14. KnucklesSonic8 09 Mar 2009, 04:41 GMT

What motivated them to bring this over...?

15. djshep1973 26 Jun 2009, 17:50 BST

Man this was awesome for the MSX, one of my favourite games on that system - I'll be downloading it if/when we see a Hanabi release over here!

:-D

16. togovero 03 Jul 2009, 19:41 BST

Man, this game for sure is hardcore.

17. Betagam7 03 Jul 2009, 22:23 BST

Whats the point in releasing these old sports games when superior versions exist on Wii Sports/Wii play?

18. Tony 14 Jul 2009, 16:49 BST

The reason for putting out all of the old sports games is because that is what the VC service is about. I would rather them put out everything and let people choose what they want.