The Untold Story of Snoopy Tennis

Onthe back pages of some classic video game manuals, there’s occasionally a credits list for key members of the teams that worked on the project. At the end of the Snoopy Tennis Game Boy Color booklet, Infogrames, the publisher, has a nice healthy list of contributors. But there’s also a lonely logo for “Mermaid Studios” with a blank space underneath where the developer names should have been. Internet searches return similar missing information about the developer. <a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/snoopy-tennis#" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">MobyGames</a> credits are greyed out. <a href="https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gbc/915797-snoopy-tennis/data" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">GameSpot</a> info is empty. <a href="https://www.giantbomb.com/snoopy-tennis/3030-32834/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">GiantBomb</a> leaves the developer name out completely. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoopy_Tennis" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">WikiPedia</a> is barely more than a stub. But <a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-color/mario-tennis-/credits" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Mario Tennis</a> has a bunch of credits info. Ditto for <a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-color/pokmon-crystal-version/credits" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Pokémon</a> and <a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-color/legend-of-zelda-oracle-of-seasons/credits" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Zelda</a> from around the same period of time. For an indie title in the early days of video game history, this might not be strange, but here was a major publisher with a high-profile license, and also a “modern” game released years after the internet solidified a gaming community rich in data and story. Where was the info about Mermaid Studios? Who was this secret bunch that slipped past the gate and delivered a lob shot over the heads of the gaming industry? <a href="https://medium.com/super-jump/the-untold-story-of-snoopy-tennis-4dc177317e15">Website</a>