NFL 2K

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NFL 2K

System(s): Sega Dreamcast

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Visual Concepts

Supporting companies: House of Moves (motion capture), STATS (statistics)

Brand: Sega Sports (US)

Licensor: NFL Properties, National Football League Players Association

Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Visual Memory Unit, Dreamcast VGA Box

Genre: Super Real Sports (スーパーリアルスポーツ)^[1]^[2], Sports^[3] (American football)

Number of players: 1-4

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2000-01-20^[2]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e^[2]	HDR-0058
JP (Dorikore)	2000-12-21^[4]	¥2,800 (2,940)2,800e^[4]	HDR-0141
US	1999-09-09^[5]^[6]	$49.9549.95^[7]	51003
US (Sega All Stars)	2000-08-15	$19.9919.99^[8]

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NFL 2K is an American football game for the Sega Dreamcast. It was not released in Europe. During development it was known by the slightly longer title, NFL 2000.

Gameplay

Teams

San Francisco 49ers
Chicago Bears
Cincinnati Bengals
Buffalo Bills
Denver Broncos
Cleveland Browns
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Arizona Cardinals
San Diego Chargers
Kansas City Chiefs
Indianapolis Colts
Dallas Cowboys
Miami Dolphins
Philadelphia Eagles
Atlanta Falcons
New York Giants
Jacksonville Jaguars
New York Jets
Detroit Lions
Green Bay Packers
Carolina Panthers
New England Patriots
Los Angeles Raiders
St. Louis Rams
Baltimore Ravens
Washington Redskins
New Orleans Saints
Seattle Seahawks
Pittsburgh Steelers
Tennessee Titans
Minnesota Vikings
FW Alumni
GP Alumni
MW Alumni
NE Alumni
SE Alumni
SW Alumni
AFC
NFC
NFL

History

Development

A the time of development, American football games on the PlayStation or Nintendo 64 would typically have around 250 animations (according to Visual Concepts). NFL 2K by contrast, has between 1,500 and 1,700 motion-captured animations from 14 different athletes (captured during the course of 16 days)^[9].

Production credits

VISUAL CONCEPTS CREDITS

Lead Engineer: Tim Walter
Lead Al Engineer: Matthew Hamre
Lead Library Engineer: Chuck Batson
Audio Director: Brian Luzietti
Lead Tools Engineer: Audrey Seymour
Engineers: Chris Larson, Mark Horsley, Gary Arnold, Shawn Lee, Nick Jones, Scott Patterson
Art Director: Alvin Cardona
Artists: Fred Wong, David Lee, Steve Paris, Leandro Penaloza, Nelson Wang, Quinn Kaneko, Joel Flory, Matt Crysdale, Joyce Rietveld, Avril Harrison
Sound Designer: Larry Peacock
Tools Engineers: Josh Lee, Brian Hughes, Nick Verne
Executive Producer: Greg Thomas
Project Manager: Jett Thomas
Assistant Project Manager: Rustin Lee
Quality Assurance: Rick Andraschko
Special Thanks: Wayne Herman, Alice Crysdale, Richard Yee, Kaj Swift, Brian Grenier, Rockne Tarkington, Carl M., Solano College Players

SEGA CREDITS

Senior Producer: Marcus Matthews
Producer: David Perkinson
Assistant Producers: Lorne Asuncion, Matt Underwood
Sega Sports Team: Derrick Aynaga, Kirby Fong, Tracy Johnson
Marketing: Martha Hill, Andrew Stein, Stacey Kerr
Special Consultants: Willie Shaw - Oakland Raiders, Marty Mornhinweg - San Francisco 49ers
Motion Capture Talent: Junior Bryant, Derrick Deese, Marquez Pope, Ahman Green, Jim Schwantz, Shawn McWashington, Chris Keldorf, Tommy Thompson, Ward Farris, Tony Patch, Gerard Williams, Larry Williams, Alan Rice, Phil Shores, Ken Shelton, Tyrone Peace, Dave Paniagua, Nikko DeLozada
Motion Capture:
- House of Moves: Jarrod Phillips, Tom Tolles, James Scanlon
- Performance Capture Studios: Gary Roberts, Mark Greenberg, Francois Laroche, Percy Sagun
Goal Line Productions: Paul Levine, Cheryl Levine
Script Writing: Rob Thomas
Voice Over: Terry McGovern as "Dan Stevens", Jay Styne as "Peter O'Keefe", Mark VanGelder as "Chris Dishman", Marcia Perry as "Michelle Westphal", Doug Dull as the PA Announcer, Tim White as the referee
Recording Studio:
- Conscious Sound Studios: Benjamin Grant DePauw
Playbook Design:
- The Coach's Edge: Craig Jonas, Ryan Audus, Mary Swayne
Player Rating and Stat Database: Matt Underwood, Lorne Asuncion
Additional Statistical Support:
- Stats Inc.: Scott Enslen, Jim Capuano
Lead Tester: Todd Slepian
Assistant Leads: Ed Brady, Howard Gipson, Matt Lucich, Abe Navarro
Testers: Richard Allard, Bobby Amirkhan, Gabrielle Brown, Sean Doidge, Joey Edwards, BJ Enriquez, Paulita Escalona, Scott Etkin, Roger Faso, David Fischer, Jason Hill, Jason Nolen, Dave Paniagua, Pedro Ponce, Jonas Robledo, Jakob Slipak, Joshua Tapley, Pat Walsh, Willie Wareham, Dan Windrem, David Wood, Joe Gora, Benjie Galvez, Rick Ribble, Amy Albertson, Jeff Sideno, Patrick Pendergast, Chris Meyer, Ryan Roettele, Jason Carbajal, Kandis Etzler, Roddy McNevin, Jason Mercer
Special Thanks - Sega of America: Bernie Stolar, Lynne Poirier, Peter Moore, Undyne Stafford, Shinobu Toyoda, Jane Thompson, Karen Kress, Charlie Belfield, Dave Karraker, Jennifer Walker, Karen Schachter, Teri Higgins, Fred Huey, John Cheng, Cindy Jenney, Sandy Castagnola, Sheri Hockaday, John Amirkhan, Joanne Eastman, Sean Doidge, Mike McCollum, Mitzi Reagan, Roxana Hui, Eric Hammond, Scott Hartin, Gary Lake, Judy Jette, Tom Miley, Toshi Morita, Alex Villagran, Jim Yamashita, Curtis Clarkson, Mike Lopez, Richard Verdoni
Special Thanks - Sega of Japan: Shoichiro Irimajiri, Kenichi Iwanaga, Masaki Kawahori, Shoji Nishikawa, Keiko Terashima, Shuji Utsumi
Special Thanks - NEC: M. Imanishi
Special Thanks - Videologic: Mark Butler
NFL Properties: Gene Goldberg, Monty Amdursky, Tim Langley, Paul Spinelli
Players Inc.: Doug Allen, LaShun Lawson, Farra D'Orazio

Howard Skall

Player Headshots and Stadium: Reference Material © NFL Photo

Source:

US manual^[10]

Magazine articles

Main article: NFL 2K/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #124: "November 1999" (1999-10-05)
also published in:

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US) #2: "November 1999" (1999-10-05)^[11]

Print advert in Next Level (AR) #10: "Noviembre 1999" (1999-xx-xx)

US Television advertisements

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Computer & Video Games (UK)

75

^[12]

Dreamcast Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

87

^[13]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

74

^[14]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

89

^[15]

Dreamzone (FR)

NTSC

93

^[16]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[17]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

79

^[18]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

85

^[19]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

93

^[20]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

92

^[21]

Gamers' Republic (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[22]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[23]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[24]

	85
Based on 13 reviews

NFL 2K

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Disc Inlay

Dreamcast, JP (Dorikore)
Cover

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Manual Inlay

Dreamcast, US (Not For Resale)

Disc

Dreamcast, US (Sega All Stars)
Cover
Disc Inlay

Compliance

Main article: NFL 2K/Compliance.

Technical information

Main article: NFL 2K/Technical information.

External links

Sega of America webpage: Dreamcast
Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast, Dreamcast (Dorikore)

References

↑ File:NFL 2K DC JP Back.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 http://sega.jp/dc/000112/ (Wayback Machine: 2009-09-13 05:00)
↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-11-01 19:55)
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 http://sega.jp/dc/001203/ (Wayback Machine: 2009-09-17 08:59)
↑ Press release: 1999-09-02: Sega Dreamcast Launch Titles and Peripherals
↑ http://www.sega.com/games/dreamcast/post_dreamcastgame.jhtml?PRODID=263 (Wayback Machine: 2002-03-20 02:04)
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "November 1999" (US; 1999-10-05), page 103
↑ http://www.sega.jp/release/nr000823_2.html (Wayback Machine: 2005-02-09 19:23)
↑ Next Generation, "June 1999" (US; 1999-05-18), page 23
↑ File:NFL2K DC US Manual.pdf, page 22
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "November 1999" (US; 1999-10-05), page 17
↑ Computer & Video Games, "January 2000" (UK; 1999-12-15), page 103
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-02 (2000-01-21,28)" (JP; 2000-01-07), page 24
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 4" (UK; 1999-12-23), page 64
↑ Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33
↑ Dreamzone, "Avril 2000" (FR; 2000-03-18), page 96
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 1999" (US; 1999-09-07), page 214
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 151
↑ Famitsu, "2000-01-28" (JP; 2000-01-14), page 30
↑ GamePro, "November 1999" (US; 1999-1x-xx), page 146
↑ Game Informer, "October 1999" (US; 1999-xx-xx), page 66
↑ Gamers' Republic, "October 1999" (US; 1999-09-18), page 88
↑ Next Generation, "October 1999" (US; 1999-09-21), page 108
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "November 1999" (US; 1999-10-05), page 102

NFL 2K

Books: Prima's Official Strategy Guide: NFL 2K (1999)

Prototypes: 1999-08-04

American Football games published by Sega
Joe Montana Football (Mega Drive) (Master System/Game Gear) (DOS) (1990) \| Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football (1991) \| NFL Sports Talk Football '93 Starring Joe Montana (1992) \| Joe Montana's NFL Football (1993) \| NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (1993) \| NFL '95 (1994) \| Prime Time NFL Football Starring Deion Sanders (1995) \| NFL '97 (1996) \| NFL 98 (1997)
Joe Montana NFL Football (IBM PC) (unreleased) \| NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (Game Gear) (unreleased)
College Football
College Football's National Championship (1994) \| College Football's National Championship II (1995) \| NCAA College Football 2K2 (2001) \| NCAA College Football 2K3 (2002)
NFL 2K Series
NFL 2K (1999) \| NFL 2K1 (2000) \| NFL 2K2 (2001) \| NFL 2K3 (2002) \| ESPN NFL Football (2003) \| ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004)

Games in the 2K Sports series
	2K	2K1	2K2	2K3	2K4	2K5
Basketball	NBA 2K	NBA 2K1	NBA 2K2	NBA 2K3	ESPN NBA Basketball	ESPN NBA 2K5
American football	NFL 2K	NFL 2K1	NFL 2K2	NFL 2K3	ESPN NFL Football	ESPN NFL 2K5
Ice hockey	NHL 2K	--	NHL 2K2	NHL 2K3	ESPN NHL Hockey	ESPN NHL 2K5
Baseball	--	World Series Baseball 2K1	World Series Baseball 2K2	World Series Baseball 2K3	ESPN Major League Baseball	--
College football	--	--	NCAA College Football 2K2	NCAA College Football 2K3	--	--
College Basketball	--	--	--	NCAA College Basketball 2K3	ESPN College Hoops	ESPN College Hoops 2K5
Others	Virtua Athlete 2K	--	Tennis 2K2	--	--	--

[:File:NFL_2K_DC_JP_Back.jpg_p-1] File:NFL 2K DC JP Back.jpg

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[Press_release:_1999-09-02:_Sega_Dreamcast_Launch_Titles_and_Peripherals-5] Press release: 1999-09-02: Sega Dreamcast Launch Titles and Peripherals

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20020320020451.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.sega.com.2Fgames.2Fdreamcast.2Fpost_dreamcastgame.jhtml.3FPRODID.3D263-6] ttp://www.sega.com/games/dreamcast/post_dreamcastgame.jhtml?PRODID=263 (Wayback Machine: 2002-03-20 02:04)

[:File:ODCM_US_02.pdf_p103-7] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "November 1999" (US; 1999-10-05), page 103

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20050209192332.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.sega.jp.2Frelease.2Fnr000823_2.html-8] ttp://www.sega.jp/release/nr000823_2.html (Wayback Machine: 2005-02-09 19:23)

[:File:NextGeneration_US_54.pdf_p23-9] Next Generation, "June 1999" (US; 1999-05-18), page 23

[:File:NFL2K_DC_US_Manual.pdf_p22-10] File:NFL2K DC US Manual.pdf, page 22

[:File:ODCM_US_02.pdf_p17-11] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "November 1999" (US; 1999-10-05), page 17

[:File:CVG_UK_218.pdf_p103-12] Computer & Video Games, "January 2000" (UK; 1999-12-15), page 103

[:File:DCM_JP_20000121_2000-02.pdf_p24-13] Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-02 (2000-01-21,28)" (JP; 2000-01-07), page 24

[:File:Dreamcast_Magazine_04.pdf_p64-14] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 4" (UK; 1999-12-23), page 64

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p33-15] Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33

[:File:Dreamzone_11_2000_Scan.pdf_p96-16] Dreamzone, "Avril 2000" (FR; 2000-03-18), page 96

[:File:EGM_US_123.pdf_p214-17] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 1999" (US; 1999-09-07), page 214

[18] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 151

[19] Famitsu, "2000-01-28" (JP; 2000-01-14), page 30

[:File:GamePro_US_134.pdf_p146-20] GamePro, "November 1999" (US; 1999-1x-xx), page 146

[:File:GameInformer_US_078.pdf_p66-21] Game Informer, "October 1999" (US; 1999-xx-xx), page 66

[:File:GamersRepublic_US_17.pdf_p88-22] Gamers' Republic, "October 1999" (US; 1999-09-18), page 88

[:File:NextGeneration_US_58.pdf_p108-23] Next Generation, "October 1999" (US; 1999-09-21), page 108

[:File:ODCM_US_02.pdf_p102-24] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "November 1999" (US; 1999-10-05), page 102

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American Football games published by Sega
Joe Montana Football (Mega Drive) (Master System/Game Gear) (DOS) (1990) \| Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football (1991) \| NFL Sports Talk Football '93 Starring Joe Montana (1992) \| Joe Montana's NFL Football (1993) \| NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (1993) \| NFL '95 (1994) \| Prime Time NFL Football Starring Deion Sanders (1995) \| NFL '97 (1996) \| NFL 98 (1997)
Joe Montana NFL Football (IBM PC) (unreleased) \| NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (Game Gear) (unreleased)
College Football
College Football's National Championship (1994) \| College Football's National Championship II (1995) \| NCAA College Football 2K2 (2001) \| NCAA College Football 2K3 (2002)
NFL 2K Series
NFL 2K (1999) \| NFL 2K1 (2000) \| NFL 2K2 (2001) \| NFL 2K3 (2002) \| ESPN NFL Football (2003) \| ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004)

NFL 2K

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Contents

Gameplay

Teams

History

Development

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Compliance

Technical information

External links

References