SNES David Crane’s Amazing Tennis in Box
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David Crane's Amazing Tennis for Super Nintendo, complete in box, published by Absolute Entertainment in 1992. The "David Crane" name on the cover was a commercial credential, not a vanity label. Crane co-founded Activision in 1979 and built his reputation on "Pitfall!" and "A Boy and His Blob" before arriving at Absolute. Putting his name on the box told a certain kind of player exactly who made this and what standard of design to expect.
Absolute Entertainment was a small New Jersey studio running a tight catalog in the early SNES years, and Amazing Tennis was one of their higher-profile releases. The SNES tennis library was thin in 1992. "Smash Tennis" from Namco was still a year out, and Nintendo's own "Mario Tennis" was a Game Boy title at that point with no Super Nintendo counterpart yet. Crane's take filled a real gap, leaning on ball-physics fidelity over arcade flash, which put it at odds with the market's reflexes at the time but made it hold up in retrospect. The Foot Locker cross-promotional sticker on the box, date-coded 3/27/93, tells you this copy was on a retail shelf when SNES was still the current hardware. Foot Locker was moving licensed sports software alongside sneakers at that point, a pairing that made sense for about three years before game retail consolidated around dedicated chains and big-box electronics.
Crane built four court surfaces with distinct ball physics when competitors were still grinding one-surface rallies.
This copy is complete in box with the sticker intact and readable. The Foot Locker coupon sticker is the detail that sharpens the raw collectibility here: it is a retail artifact that dates the copy's time on shelf to the first quarter of 1993, roughly six months after the game's release. CIB SNES titles are not rare as a category, but a box that still carries a dated cross-promotional retail sticker from the original sale period is a narrower find. Condition on the box corners and the cartridge label will determine where this lands in the CIB grading range. Pull the cartridge and check the label edges where the sticker meets the cart shell.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm box and manual are present and that the Foot Locker sticker reads 3/27/93 under good light.
Crane built four court surfaces with distinct ball physics when competitors were still grinding one-surface rallies.
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This is part of Nintendo's 90s run, the era that built the shop's back wall. Nintendo shipped cartridges, plush, promotional oddities, and packaging that most buyers threw out on the way to the game. What survived, mostly by accident, ends up here. Every piece is cleaned, photographed, and listed one at a time. Nothing on the archive shelf is a duplicate.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This snes david crane’s amazing tennis in box originates from the 90s era[01], represents Nintendo[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
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