NFL 2K1

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NFL 2K1
System(s): Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Visual Concepts
Supporting companies: STATS (statistics)
Brand: Sega Sports
Licensor: NFL Properties, National Football League Players Association
Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Dreamcast Keyboard, Dreamcast Modem, Visual Memory Unit, Dreamcast VGA Box
Genre: Super Real Sports (スーパーリアルスポーツ), Sports (American football)
Number of players: 1-4
Release Date RRP Code JP 2001-03-29 ¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e HDR-0144 US 2000-09-05 $49.9949.99 51062 US (Sega All Stars) 200x

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NFL 2K1 is an American football game released as part of the 2K series of games. It was released exclusively on the Sega Dreamcast and is a sequel to NFL 2K. In Japan, a limited edition version titled NFL 2K1 Bible was released which came with a poster.

In North America, NFL 2K1 debuted on the same day as the SegaNet service launched, 7 September 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

Release

In the US, NFL 2K1 out-sold the PlayStation 2 release of Madden NFL 2001 during the first two weeks of sale, selling 139,000 units (versus 126,000) in its first week, and 208,000 (versus 159,000) by the end of week two. 410,000 units had been sold by the first week of November 2000.

The games servers where shut down in the early 2000's when SegaNet shut down, however fans are currently working on brining the game back online sometime in 2018

The game is also the highest scored Sega game on Metacritic.

Production credits

VISUAL CONCEPTS CREDITS

• Lead Engineers: Tim Walter, Chris Larson
• Artificial Intelligence Engineers: Shawn Lee, Mark Horsley
• Engineers: Matt Hamre, Nick Jones, Mark Roberts, Gary Arnold, Alex Lee, Bob Alexander, Scott Patterson, Tim Meekins, Matt Underwood, Andrew Marrinson
• Library Engineers: Chuck Batson, Ivar Olsen
• Tool Engineers: Joshua Lee, Brian Hughes
• Artists: Fred Wong, David Lee, Joel Flory, Quinn Kaneko, Leandro Penaloza, Hsing-Wen Hsu, Joyce Rietveld, Steve Paris, Nelson Wang, Roy Tse, Matt Crysdale
• Audio Director: Brian Luzietti
• Sound Designer: Larry Peacock
• Dialog Editor: J. Mateo Baker
• Motion Capture Director: Matt Karnes
• Motion Capture: Luc Lagarde, Rich Nelson
• Executive Producer: Greg Thomas
• Project Manager: Jeff Thomas
• Assistant Project Manager: Rustin Lee
• Production: Abe Navarro, Matt Underwood, Jeremy Tiner, Lorne Asuncion, David Perkinson
• Quality Assurance: Joe Gora, Donell Williams
• Motion Capture Talent: Randy Moss, Tyrone Wheatley, Sean Dawkins, Todd Lyght, Gerard Williams, Larry Williams, David Nash, Ken Shelton, Tom Brady, Joe Gora, Shawn Lee
• Audio Script Writing: Rob Thomas
• Audio Script Consultant: Alan Luzietti
• Voice Over: Terry McGovern as Dan Stevens, Jay Styne as Peter O'Keefe, Elaine Clark - as Michelle Weshphal, Doug Dull - as the PA Announcer, Tim White - as the Referee
• Player Voices: Brian "Street Frog" Grenier, Rockne "Rock" Tarkington, Jason Gaines, Brian Shute, Nick Navos, Nick Doplemore, Kirk Sanderson, Joe Horde, Joe Stofle, with thanks to: The Solano Commuity College Football Department
• Recording Studio: Conscious Sound Studios, Benjamin Grant DePauw
• Special Consultant: Marty Mornhinweg - San Francisco 49ers
• Playbook Design: The Coach's Edge
• Additional Statistical Support: Stats Inc.
• Special Thanks: Andrew Leker, Alvin Cardona, Wayne Herman, Jenn Baker, Richard Yee, House of Moves, The Solano Commuity College Football Department

SEGA CREDITS

• Director of Sports Marketing: Martha Hill
• Product Manager: Stacey Kerr
• Sports Marketing Coordinator: Cheryl Williams
• Lead Tester: Ed Brady
• Assistant Lead Testers: Richard Allard, Joey Edwards, BJ Enriquez, Jeff Sideno
• Testers: Joseph Amper, Jude Baldo, Aldric Baquiran, Steven Campbell, Stefan Conde, Daniel Chang, J. Duclayan, Antonio Eco, Berjes Enriquez, Kurt Ermshar, Jerome Fernandez, Brent Fillmore, Benjie Galvez, Mark Gonzalez, Alan Hsu, Stephen Hsu, Nick Jaochico, Raymond Kwan, Chester Lee, Eric Ling, Michael Lowe, Jason Mercer, Brian Miller, Steve Peck, Henry Perez, Pedro Ponce, Paul Proner, Matt Rice, Kenny "Quick" Robinson, Jonas Robledo, Mark Sideno, Todd Slepian, John Stark, Ryan Stern, Jacob True, JR Villatuya, Derek Wong
• NFL Properties: Gene Goldberg, Gregg Sauter, Tim Langley, Paul Spinelli
• Players Inc.: Doug Allen, LaShun Lawson, Seth Wyman, Howard Skall
• Player Headshots and Stadium Reference Material: © NFL Photos

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: NFL 2K1/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in (US) #145: "October 2000" (2000-xx-xx)
also published in:

• (US) #134: "September 2000" (2000-08-08)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score (YU) NTSC 96 (UK) NTSC-U 80 (JP) NTSC-J 77 (JP) NTSC-J 88 (US) NTSC-U 97 (RU) 80 (JP) NTSC-J 80 (DE) NTSC-U 84 (US) NTSC-U 98 (US) NTSC-U 94 (US) NTSC-U 100 (DE) NTSC-U 94 (US) NTSC-U 100

	90
Based on 13 reviews

NFL 2K1

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Disc Jewel Case

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Manual Inlay

Dreamcast, US (Sega All Stars)

Technical information

Main article: NFL 2K1/Technical information.

External links

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

References

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)