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Virtua Athlete 2K

System(s): Sega Dreamcast

Publisher: Sega (Japan, Europe), Agetec (US)

Developer: Hitmaker

Supporting companies: T's Music (audio)

Licensor: Sega (US)

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

Genre: Sports^[1]^[2]^[3]

Number of players: 1-4

Official in-game languages:

English

Français

Deutsch

Español

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2000-07-27^[2]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e^[2]	HDR-0081
US	2000-09-13^[4]	$49.9949.99^[5]	T-44301N
EU	2000-08-25		MK-51094-50
DE	2000-08-25		MK-51094-50
ES	2000-08-30^[10]		MK-51094-50
FR	2000-09-01^[9]		MK-51094-50
UK	2000-08-25^[6]^[7]	£39.9939.99^[8]	MK-51094-50

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Virtua Athlete 2K (バーチャアスリート2K), known as Virtua Athlete 2000 in North America, is a Sega Dreamcast sports game.

It was included along with Decathlete and Winter Heat in volume 15 of the Sega Ages 2500 series.

Gameplay

Events

	100m Dash

	Long Jump

	Shot-Put

	High Jump

	110m Hurdles

	Javelin

	1500m Race

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Virtua Athlete 2K	Virtua Athlete 2K
English (US)	Virtua Athlete 2000	Virtua Athlete 2000
Japanese	バーチャアスリート2K	Virtua Athlete 2K

Production credits

Director Planner: Shinichi Ogasawara
Main 100mDash 110mHurdles 1500mRace Programmer: Tadakatsu Ogura
System Programmer: Kiyoaki Matsumoto
Background Ending Programmer: Naoki Matsumoto
Network Javelin Throw Shot Put Programmer: Tetsuya Takahashi
Long Jump High Jump Opening Programmer: Fusano Iguchi
Motion Animator: Yojiro Hirashita
Character Designer: Hirotada Kakusaka
Background Designer: Shingo Yamada, Daisuke Takamori
Opening Animator: Hidenori Oda
Ending Designer: Yuji Masuda
Icon Designer: Ayumi Hanashima
VM Designer: Hidehiro Yoshida
Planner: Koji Sugimori, Junichi Kashiwagi
Sound Direction & Engineer: Hiroyuki Hamada (T's Music)
Music: Shinichirou Satou (T's Music)
Sound Effect: Manabu Fujiki (T's Music)
Translator: Yuriko Nohara (Green Planning)
Isao Staff: Kenichi Hiraiwa, Kiminori Kitahata, Taku Hirose, Rikiya Katagai
Publicity: Shintaro Takaya
Debug: Taiji Ochiai, Daisuke Satou, Tomoki Matsuura, Tatsushi Hirose, Masayuki Baba, Makoto Tanaka, Akio Ikeda
Model For Game Character: Perry L Mckeethen, Bruce M Mitchell, Segric L Hayes, Daniel M Shaw, Curtis Bentley, Hideki Kasuga, Hiroshi Moriyama, Tetsuya Takahashi, Kan Naito
Special Thanks: Virtua Tennis Team, Lana K Smith, Yokota Air Force Base
Producer: Juro Watari
Executive Producer: Hisao Oguchi
Presented by: Sega

(C)Sega Enterprises, Ltd./Hitmaker Co.,Ltd., 2000

Source:

In-game credits (JP)

Magazine articles

Main article: Virtua Athlete 2K/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Neo Plus (PL) #30: "Marzec 2001" (2001-xx-xx)
also published in:

Neo Plus (PL) #31: "Kwiecień 2001" (2001-xx-xx)^[11]
Neo Plus (PL) #32: "Maj 2001" (2001-xx-xx)^[12]
Neo Plus (PL) #33: "Czerwiec 2001" (2001-xx-xx)^[13]
Neo Plus (PL) #34: "Lipiec-Sierpień 2001" (2001-xx-xx)^[14]
Neo Plus (PL) #35: "Wrzesień 2001" (2001-xx-xx)^[15]

Artwork

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Ação Games (BR)

75

^[16]

Arcade (UK)

PAL

25

^[17]

Consoles + (FR)

PAL

92

^[18]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

75

^[8]

Dreamcast Monthly (UK)

PAL

30

^[19]

Digitiser (UK)

20

^[20]

Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel (FR)

PAL

50

^[21]

Dreamcast Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

70

^[22]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

79

^[23]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

65

^[24]

Edge (UK)

PAL

50

^[25]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

57

^[26]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

81

^[27]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

78

^[28]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

78

^[29]

GamesMaster (UK)

PAL

54

^[30]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

67

^[31]

Joypad (FR)

PAL

30

^[32]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

58

^[33]

Mega Fun (DE)

PAL

62

^[34]

Neo Plus (PL)

50

^[35]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

25

^[36]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

40

^[37]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US)

NTSC-U

20

^[5]

Playmag (FR)

PAL

60

^[38]

Playmag (FR)

NTSC-J

80

^[39]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

71

^[40]

	57
Based on 27 reviews

Virtua Athlete 2K

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Disc Inlay

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Manual Inlay

Dreamcast, EU
Cover
Disc File:VirtualAtletes2K-DC-EU-Manual.pdf Manual

Compliance

Main article: Virtua Athlete 2K/Compliance.

Technical information

Main article: Virtua Athlete 2K/Technical information.

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast
Sega.com Asia webpage: Dreamcast
Sega.com Asia webpage (Chinese): Dreamcast
Agetec webpage: Dreamcast

References

↑ File:VirtuaAthlete2K DC JP Box Back.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 http://sega.jp/dc/000707/ (Wayback Machine: 2014-08-05 19:24)
↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-11-09 14:09)
↑ http://www.gexpress.com/detailedspecs.cfm?returndept=DC&returnpage=2&number=093992057602 (Wayback Machine: 2003-07-05 16:24)
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "November 2000" (US; 2000-10-03), page 104
↑ http://www.chipsworld.co.uk/detProd.asp?ProductCode=2985 (Wayback Machine: 2004-02-13 07:51)
↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk:80/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/50781/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-11-25 06:02)
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Computer & Video Games, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-13), page 110
↑ http://www.micromania.fr:80/zooms/?ref=17724 (Wayback Machine: 2002-12-26 12:38)
↑ http://www.centromail.es/top/ficha.asp?codmail=14945&codprov= (Wayback Machine: 2001-09-17 04:47)
↑ Neo Plus, "Kwiecień 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 100
↑ Neo Plus, "Maj 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 100
↑ Neo Plus, "Czerwiec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 100
↑ Neo Plus, "Lipiec-Sierpień 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 84
↑ Neo Plus, "Wrzesień 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 84
↑ Ação Games, "Outubro 2000" (BR; 2000-xx-xx), page 44
↑ Arcade, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-08), page 72
↑ Consoles +, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 96
↑ Dreamcast Monthly, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-08-31), page 72
↑ Digitiser (UK) (2000-09-12)
↑ Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel, "Septembre/Octobre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 58
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-26 (2000-08-04,11)" (JP; 2000-07-21), page 21
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 14" (UK; 2000-10-05), page 54
↑ Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34
↑ Edge, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-11), page 99
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 252
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 295
↑ Famitsu, "2000-08-04" (JP; 2000-07-21), page 33
↑ GamePro, "November 2000" (US; 2000-1x-xx), page 163
↑ GamesMaster, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-05), page 76
↑ Game Informer, "October 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 89
↑ Joypad, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 161
↑ MAN!AC, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 56
↑ Mega Fun, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 44
↑ Neo Plus, "Październik 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 56
↑ Next Generation, "November 2000" (US; 2000-10-17), page 125
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-07), page 82
↑ Playmag, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 146
↑ Playmag, "Octobre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 48
↑ Video Games, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 93

Virtua Athlete 2K
	Main page \| Comparisons \| Development \| Magazine articles \| Video coverage \| Reception \| Technical information \| Bootlegs Prototypes: 2000-07-24 \| 07-27

Decathlete series
Decathlete (1996) \| Winter Heat (1997) \| Virtua Athlete 2K (2000) \| Virtua Athlete (2002) \| Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 15: Decathlete Collection (2004)
Decathlete related media
	Winter Heat Official Guide (1998)

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:VirtuaAthlete2K_DC_JP_Box_Back.jpg_p-1] File:VirtuaAthlete2K DC JP Box Back.jpg

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[:File:ODCM_US_08.pdf_p104-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "November 2000" (US; 2000-10-03), page 104

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[:File:CVG_UK_227.pdf_p110-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Computer & Video Games, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-13), page 110

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[11] Neo Plus, "Kwiecień 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 100

[12] Neo Plus, "Maj 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 100

[13] Neo Plus, "Czerwiec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 100

[14] Neo Plus, "Lipiec-Sierpień 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 84

[:File:Neo_Plus_35_PL.pdf_p84-15] Neo Plus, "Wrzesień 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 84

[:File:AcaoGames_BR_156.pdf_p44-16] Ação Games, "Outubro 2000" (BR; 2000-xx-xx), page 44

[:File:Arcade_UK_24.pdf_p72-17] Arcade, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-08), page 72

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_104.pdf_p96-18] Consoles +, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 96

[:File:DreamcastMonthly_UK_13.pdf_p72-19] Dreamcast Monthly, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-08-31), page 72

[digitiser2000-09-12-20] Digitiser (UK) (2000-09-12)

[:File:DLMO_FR_06.pdf_p58-21] Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel, "Septembre/Octobre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 58

[:File:DCM_JP_20000804_2000-26.pdf_p21-22] Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-26 (2000-08-04,11)" (JP; 2000-07-21), page 21

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_14.pdf_p54-23] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 14" (UK; 2000-10-05), page 54

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p34-24] Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34

[:File:Edge_UK_089.pdf_p99-25] Edge, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-11), page 99

[:File:EGM_US_136.pdf_p252-26] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 252

[27] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 295

[28] Famitsu, "2000-08-04" (JP; 2000-07-21), page 33

[:File:GamePro_US_146.pdf_p163-29] GamePro, "November 2000" (US; 2000-1x-xx), page 163

[:File:GamesMaster_UK_099.pdf_p76-30] GamesMaster, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-05), page 76

[:File:GameInformer_US_090.pdf_p89-31] Game Informer, "October 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 89

[:File:Joypad_FR_100.pdf_p161-32] Joypad, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 161

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-10.pdf_p56-33] MAN!AC, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 56

[:File:MegaFun_DE_2000-10.pdf_p44-34] Mega Fun, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 44

[35] Neo Plus, "Październik 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 56

[:File:NextGeneration_US_71.pdf_p125-36] Next Generation, "November 2000" (US; 2000-10-17), page 125

[:File:ODM_UK_12.pdf_p82-37] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-07), page 82

[:File:Playmag_FR_50.pdf_p146-38] Playmag, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 146

[:File:Playmag_FR_51.pdf_p48-39] Playmag, "Octobre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 48

[:File:VideoGames_DE_2000-10.pdf_p93-40] Video Games, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 93

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Difference between revisions of "Virtua Athlete 2K"

From Sega Retro

Latest revision as of 14:41, 23 December 2024

Contents

Gameplay

Events

Versions

Localised names

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Artwork

Physical scans

Compliance

Technical information

External links

References