Tennis (NES version)
Tennis was the first sport whose basic play was translated into interactive play, and I'd have an easier time recommending one of the early Pong games or consoles (yes, plural) over Nintendo's "Tennis". "Tennis" asks that you measure your spacing, follow the intricacies of the rules, and know how to hit the ball right, and you have to do all of that using a d-pad and two buttons. It isn't up to the task it brings on itself, and they'd improve on this so many times over with their Game Boy titles that there's no reason to return to this.
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