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{{stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', known in Japan as '''''Ring''''' (リング), is a [[Sega Dreamcast]] survival horror game developed by [[Asmik Ace Entertainment]]. Based on the 1998 film ''[[wikipedia:Ring (film)|Ring]]'', the game was first published in Japan by [[Kadokawa Shoten]] in February 2000, and was later localized and brought to the United States by [[Infogrames]] the following August.
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*'''Executive Producer:''' Hiroaki Kai (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.)
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*'''Producer:''' Hitoshi Iida ({{rolloverText|角川書店|Kadokawa Publishing}}), Masashi Suzuki (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.)
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*'''Character Design:''' Katsuya Terada
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*'''Cast'''
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**'''Meg:''' Soness Steavens
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**'''Robert:''' Kevyn S. Johnson
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**'''John:''' Jeffrey J. Johnston
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**'''Jack:''' Richard M. Whitelock
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**'''Lukino:''' John Broadwater
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**'''Sadako:''' Sachiko Okada, Karen Smith, Andy Fredrick
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*'''Promotion Staff:''' Yoshinobu Sato (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.), Shunsuke Wada (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.), Maki Kazuno (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.), Taiji Kawai (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.)
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*'''Product Staff:''' Mikio Ono (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.), Junko Hosoya (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.)
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*'''Director:''' Atsushi Suzuki
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*'''Main Program:''' Atsushi Suzuki
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*'''Program:''' Tetsuya Furuta, Iwashi
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*'''Main Graphic:''' Yoshimi Kaida
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*'''Character Main Graphic:''' M.T
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*'''Character Graphic:''' Yoshitaka Asaji, Hajime Okano, Ryuichi Noguchi ([[Scarab]]), Takahiro Sakuma ([[Scarab]]), Seiko Takanashi ([[Scarab]]), [[Tohru Honda]] ([[Scarab]])
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*'''Monster Director:''' [[Masanao Kita]] ([[Scarab]])
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*'''Map Main Graphic:''' Yoshimi Kaida
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*'''Map Graphic:''' Hiroki Hamashima, Hideo Nakamura, Tomoyo Kyomori, Taizo Murakami, Naoto Abe, Yousuke Tachibana, Hideki Kawakami
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*'''Object Graphic:''' Muneyuki Tejima?
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*'''Map Design:''' Katsuhiko Sakurai (Designkombinat Co.)
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*'''Planner:''' Satoshi Iwasaki, Shigeto Yasuda, Yasuyuki Kawaguchi, Hisaya Takabayashi
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*'''Scenario:''' Hisaya Takabayashi
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*'''3D Computer Graphics, Sound Track, Sound Effects, Script Translation and Voice Actors Management by:''' Nurding Group
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*'''Nurding Crue:''' Tsutomu Fuzawa, Yoshiaki Tonooka, Sota Namba, Yoshikazu Sasano, Nobuhiro Miyamura, Yasuhiro Asaga, Kazuhiro Kawamoto, Shigeki Hanawa, Mariko Ogawa, Masayuki Itokazu, Kazuhiro Higuchi, Elain E. Nishizaki, Jaron Sperry, Akiko Koyama
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*'''Sound Convert:''' Yoshiyuki Ishii
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*'''Openingdemo Movie:''' Masamichi Kawanabe
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*'''Openingdemo Music:''' Akira Nishizaki
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*'''MA Supervisor:''' Daniel Griffith
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*'''Nurding Support Friends:''' Eglamedia (London), Nurding Inc. US Staff, Break Co.,Ltd., Kelp Co.,Ltd., Keiko Ogata
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*'''Test Player:''' Yugo Shinogi, Shigeki Yoshino, Jun Fukai, Eiji Amihama, Shinya Doinaga, Kanako Umezawa, Masato Hiraguri, {{rolloverText|[[Pole To Win Co., Ltd.|ポールトゥウィン株式会社]]}}
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*'''Special Thanks:''' [[Hiroshi Okamoto]], Manabu Yamada, Takehiro Urabe, Yoshiyuki Asano, [[Masayuki Takahashi]], Hajime Endoh, Miyuki Arai, Hajime Okano, Naoto Sekiguchi, Mitsuru Fukuoka, Meri Matsumoto, Asuka Fujii, [[Scarab|株式会社スカラベ]], Design Konbinant Co.,Inc, Nurding Group, A.S.T. Works Company of Japan. (Nurdinggroup), Nurding Ltd. (Nurdinggroup), Nurding Inc. (Nurdinggroup), Queen'S Promotion Inc. (Nurdinggroup), Xeonix Co Ltd. (Nurdinggroup)
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{{sub-stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', called just '''''Ring''''' (リング) in Japan, is a survival horror game for the [[Sega Dreamcast]]. It is based upon the Japanese horror novel ''[[wikipedia:Ring (Suzuki novel)|Ring]]'' and its 1998 [[wikipedia:Ring (film)|film adaptation]].
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The Ring: Terror's Realm
System(s): Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Infogrames North America (US), Kadokawa Shoten (Japan), Asmik Ace Entertainment (Japan)
Developer:
Supporting companies:
Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Visual Memory Unit
Genre: Adventure[1][2][3]

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Dreamcast
JP 		¥6,800 (7,140)6,800e[2] T-27902M
Sega Rating: Violent Content
Sega Dreamcast
US 		$39.9939.99[5] T-15122N
ESRB: Mature 17+

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The Ring: Terror's Realm, known in Japan as Ring (リング), is a Sega Dreamcast survival horror game developed by Asmik Ace Entertainment. Based on the 1998 film Ring, the game was first published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten in February 2000, and was later localized and brought to the United States by Infogrames the following August.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language Localised Name English Translation
English (US) The Ring: Terror's Realm The Ring: Terror's Realm
Japanese リング Ring

Production credits

  • Executive Producer: Hiroaki Kai (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.)
  • Producer: Hitoshi Iida (角川書店), Masashi Suzuki (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.)
  • Character Design: Katsuya Terada
  • Cast
    • Meg: Soness Steavens
    • Robert: Kevyn S. Johnson
    • John: Jeffrey J. Johnston
    • Jack: Richard M. Whitelock
    • Lukino: John Broadwater
    • Sadako: Sachiko Okada, Karen Smith, Andy Fredrick
  • Promotion Staff: Yoshinobu Sato (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.), Shunsuke Wada (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.), Maki Kazuno (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.), Taiji Kawai (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.)
  • Product Staff: Mikio Ono (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.), Junko Hosoya (Asmik Ace Entertainment Inc.)
  • Director: Atsushi Suzuki
  • Main Program: Atsushi Suzuki
  • Program: Tetsuya Furuta, Iwashi
  • Main Graphic: Yoshimi Kaida
  • Character Main Graphic: M.T
  • Character Graphic: Yoshitaka Asaji, Hajime Okano, Ryuichi Noguchi (Scarab), Takahiro Sakuma (Scarab), Seiko Takanashi (Scarab), Tohru Honda (Scarab)
  • Monster Director: Masanao Kita (Scarab)
  • Map Main Graphic: Yoshimi Kaida
  • Map Graphic: Hiroki Hamashima, Hideo Nakamura, Tomoyo Kyomori, Taizo Murakami, Naoto Abe, Yousuke Tachibana, Hideki Kawakami
  • Object Graphic: Muneyuki Tejima?
  • Map Design: Katsuhiko Sakurai (Designkombinat Co.)
  • Planner: Satoshi Iwasaki, Shigeto Yasuda, Yasuyuki Kawaguchi, Hisaya Takabayashi
  • Scenario: Hisaya Takabayashi
  • 3D Computer Graphics, Sound Track, Sound Effects, Script Translation and Voice Actors Management by: Nurding Group
  • Nurding Crue: Tsutomu Fuzawa, Yoshiaki Tonooka, Sota Namba, Yoshikazu Sasano, Nobuhiro Miyamura, Yasuhiro Asaga, Kazuhiro Kawamoto, Shigeki Hanawa, Mariko Ogawa, Masayuki Itokazu, Kazuhiro Higuchi, Elain E. Nishizaki, Jaron Sperry, Akiko Koyama
  • Sound Convert: Yoshiyuki Ishii
  • Openingdemo Movie: Masamichi Kawanabe
  • Openingdemo Music: Akira Nishizaki
  • MA Supervisor: Daniel Griffith
  • Nurding Support Friends: Eglamedia (London), Nurding Inc. US Staff, Break Co.,Ltd., Kelp Co.,Ltd., Keiko Ogata
  • Test Player: Yugo Shinogi, Shigeki Yoshino, Jun Fukai, Eiji Amihama, Shinya Doinaga, Kanako Umezawa, Masato Hiraguri, ポールトゥウィン株式会社
  • Special Thanks: Hiroshi Okamoto, Manabu Yamada, Takehiro Urabe, Yoshiyuki Asano, Masayuki Takahashi, Hajime Endoh, Miyuki Arai, Hajime Okano, Naoto Sekiguchi, Mitsuru Fukuoka, Meri Matsumoto, Asuka Fujii, 株式会社スカラベ, Design Konbinant Co.,Inc, Nurding Group, A.S.T. Works Company of Japan. (Nurdinggroup), Nurding Ltd. (Nurdinggroup), Nurding Inc. (Nurdinggroup), Queen'S Promotion Inc. (Nurdinggroup), Xeonix Co Ltd. (Nurdinggroup)
Source:
In-game credits (JP)

Magazine articles

Main article: The Ring: Terror's Realm/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

TheRing DC JP Flyer.pdf

PDF
JP flyer
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Print advert in Official Dreamcast Magazine (US) #7: "September/October 2000" (2000-08-01)
also published in:
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Physical scans

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Publication Version Score
Ação Games (BR)
50
[7]
Dreamcast Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
60
[8]
Dreamcast Magazine (UK) NTSC-J
59
[9]
Dorimaga (JP) NTSC-J
44
[10]
Dreamzone (FR) NTSC-J
35
[11]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
47
[12]
Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)
88
[13]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
60
[14]
Fun Generation (DE) NTSC-U
39
[15]
Gamers' Republic (US) NTSC-J
58
[16]
GameWEEK (US) NTSC-U
50
[17]
Next Generation (US) NTSC-U
0
[18]
Virtual'nyye radosti (BY)
65
[19]
Sega Dreamcast
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Based on
13 reviews

The Ring: Terror's Realm

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Technical information

Main article: The Ring: Terror's Realm/Technical information.

External links

  • Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

References

  1. ↑ File:TheRing DC JP Box Back.jpg
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://sega.jp/dc/000209/ (Wayback Machine: 2014-04-13 20:09)
  3. ↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software_l.html#tab01 (Wayback Machine: 2020-02-01 22:57)
  4. ↑ http://www.ebworld.com/ebx/categories/newReleases/morenr-DC.asp (Wayback Machine: 2000-10-19 04:28)
  5. ↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "September/October 2000" (US; 2000-08-01), page 97
  6. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "September 2000" (US; 2000-08-08), page 93
  7. ↑ Ação Games, "Dezembro 2000" (BR; 2000-xx-xx), page 47
  8. ↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-07 (2000-03-03)" (JP; 2000-02-18), page 22
  9. ↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 8" (UK; 2000-04-20), page 76
  10. ↑ Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 35
  11. ↑ Dreamzone, "Avril 2000" (FR; 2000-03-18), page 108
  12. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "September 2000" (US; 2000-08-08), page 156
  13. ↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 187
  14. ↑ Famitsu, "2000-03-03" (JP; 2000-02-18), page 31
  15. ↑ Fun Generation, "12/2000" (DE; 2000-11-22), page 76
  16. ↑ Gamers' Republic, "May 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 92
  17. ↑ GameWEEK, "July 3, 2000" (US; 2000-07-03), page 17
  18. ↑ Next Generation, "September 2000" (US; 2000-08-15), page 105
  19. ↑ Virtual'nyye radosti, "" (BY; 2003-09-30), page 1


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