Astro Boy

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Astro Boy
System(s): PlayStation 2
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sonic Team
Licensor: Tezuka Productions
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 2004-03-18 ¥6,980 (7,329)6,980 (7,329) SLPM-65551 US 2004-08-17 $39.9939.99 SLUS-20867 EU (Promo) 2005 DE 2005-02-11 SLES-52486 INL-P52486-GE ES 2005-02-11 SLES-52486 INL-P52486-SP FR 2005-02-11 SLES-52486 INL-P52486-FR UK 2005-02-11 SLES-52486 INL-P52486-UK IT 2005 SLES-52486 INL-P52486-IT AU 2005 SLES-52486 INL-P52486-AU KR 2004-07-15 ₩49,00049,000 SLKA-25159 AS 2004 SLAJ-25037

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Astro Boy, known as Astro Boy: Tetsuwan Atom (アストロボーイ・鉄腕アトム) in Japan, is a 2004 action game based upon the 2003 anime series Astro Boy. It was developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. Sega had previously published another Astro Boy game for the Game Boy Advance a year earlier, Astro Boy: Omega Factor.

A soundtrack album was released by Wavemaster in Japan on 7 April 2004, titled Astro Boy: Tetsuwan Atom: Game Soundtrack Score.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Astro Boy	Astro Boy
English (US)	Astro Boy	Astro Boy
Japanese	アストロボーイ・鉄腕アトム	Astro Boy: Tetsuwan Atom

Production credits

• Voice actors
  • Astro: Candi Milo
  • Dr. O'Shay / Blue Knight: Wally Wingert
  • Zoran / Denkou: Susan Blu
  • Pluto: David Rasner
  • Atlas: Greg Cipes
  • Nora: Jennifer Darling
  • Yuko Kisagari: Faith Salie
  • Dr. Tenma / Magnamite: Dorian Harewood
• Producer: Mineko Okamura
• Director: Hideki Anbo
• Chief Game Designer: Hiroyuki Takanabe
• Game Designers: Hirono Sato, Takumi Yoshinaga, Yoshiyuki Okitsu, Emiko Sunaga, Yu Omura
• Game Design & Scripting: Yosuke Yoshizawa, Atsushi Ota, Nobuo Nakagawa
• Chief Programmer: Hitoshi Nakanishi
• Programmers: Mitsuru Takahashi, Kyousei Yukimoto, Keiichi Noda, Yoshio Inoue, Satoru Takeshima, Kazuyuki Okada, Seiji Nakagawa, Takashi Sakamoto
• Sound Programmer: Koji Kaifu
• Technical Support: Gary McHale, Takeshi Hirai
• Chief Artist: Noboru Hotta
• Character Animators: Motomu Hayashi, Yusuke Kashiwagi, Michihiro Sato
• Scene Designers: Ken Okazaki, Hiromasa Yoshida, Motomu Hayashi, Keita Watanabe
• Character Modeling: Shinkichi Tanahashi, Hitomi Nagao, Rei Miyauchi, Rieko Muramatsu
• Background Artists: Haruka Yoshida, Yuko Komuro, Hideaki Fujisawa, Masahiko Yagi, Yuji Yamaga
• Visual Effects: Jun Kobayashi
• Interface Design: Taro Hino
• Movie Editing: Ryutaro Sugiyama
• Facial Animation: Mayumi Moro, Yoshiro Shimizu
• Sound Director: Teruhiko Nakagawa (Wave Master)
• Sound Creators: Yutaka Minobe (Wave Master), Mariko Nanba (Wave Master), Naofumi Hataya (Wave Master), Hideaki Kobayashi (Wave Master), Takashi Endo (Wave Master), Junko Shiratsu (Wave Master), Kenichi Tokoi (Wave Master), Tomoya Ohtani (Wave Master), Tatsuyuki Maeda (Wave Master)
• Recording Engineer: Hirokazu Akashi (Wave Master), Yoshitada Miya (Wave Master)
• Music Advisor: Kenichiro Isoda
• Original TV Animation Score
  • Music: Takashi Yoshimatsu
  • "The Music by Takashi Yoshimatsu is produced with the kind permission of Chandos Records, Ltd."
  • : Atom, Giant Robot Appears, Atom-Waltz, Tenma II, Blue Knight II, Smart II, Guts, Fear, Battle IV, Anxious, Tense II
  • Performance Conductor: Kazumasa Watanabe
  • Japan Philharmonic Orchestra With Solo players from The Toy Box
• The Toy Box
  • Soprano Sax: Masashi Oshiro
  • Percussion: Yoshiko Kanda
  • Tenor & Bariton Xax: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Alto Sax: Ryoko Egawa
  • Trumpet: Teppei Kawakami
  • Tuba: Jinya Kimura
  • Electric Guitar: Tetsuro Tohyama
  • Electric Bass: Shigeki Ippon
  • Recording Director: Kenichiro Isoda
  • Recording & Mixing Engineer: Kenji Furukawa (Avaco Creative Studios Inc.), Hirokazu Akashi (Wave Master), Yoshitada Miya (Wave Master)
  • Assistant Engineer: Yuichi Kaneko (Avaco Creative Studios Inc.), Naoki Sakurai (Avaco Creative Studios Inc.)

©2003 Sony Pictures Entertainmet (Japan) Inc.

• Voice Over Recording Studio: Salamai Studios
• Voice Over Direction: Michael Hack
• Sound Engineer: Devon Bowman
• Talent Agency: Innovation Productions and CED Talent
• Official Website Design: Daisuke Mori, Takeshi Ichimura
• Sonic "Test" Team: Kazuyuki Kawamura, Koichi Toyoshima, Kotoga Nakajima
• Special thanks to: TEZUKA PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD., Yoshihiro Shimizu, Minoru Kubota, Makoto Nakajima, Shinji Seya, Izuru Naitou, Hirotaka Ishiwata, Takuma Matsuda, Yumiko Sugimura, Yumiko Imaizumi, Masafumi Yasukawa, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc., Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., Kazuo Koizumi (Wave Master), Toshihide Ozeki, All staff members and their families, the spirit of UGA

Sega of America STAFF

• Director of Product Development: Osamu Shibamiya
• Localization Producer: Klayton Vorlick
• Project Lead: Shawn Dobbins
• Build Engineer: Rick Ribble Jr.
• VP of Entertainment Marketing: Scott A. Steinberg
• Product Marketing Manager: Heather Guzenda
• Senior Media Specialist: Teri Higgins
• Public Relations Manager: Bret Blount
• Associate Public Relations Manager: Ethan Einhorn
• Package Design: Price Design Group
• SOA Special Thanks: Lori Von Rueden, Jeanette Manahan, Takuma Hatori, Chris Olson, Shinobu Toyoda, Noah Musler

Sony Pictures Consumer Products

• Executive Director of Sales: Mark Caplan
• Vice President of Product Development: Laetitia May
• Manager of Product Development: Eric Thomsen
• Astro Boy TV Show Producer: Grace Benn
• Director of Professional Music Service: David Quan

Sega Corporation Staff

• International Business & Product Development: Tatsuyuki Miyazaki, Shinobu Shindo, Yukiko Kato
• Licensing: Nobuhiko Ishihara, Takeshi Hiratsuka
• Software Manual: Hisakazu Nakagawa, Satoru Ishigami, Tetsuya Honda
• Technical Coordinator: Rie Yamaguchi
• Chief Producer: Yuji Naka
• Executive Producer: Hisao Oguchi
• Original Story By: Osamu Tezuka
• Created by: Sonic Team
• Presented by: Sega

©Sonic Team/Sega, 2004 ©2003 Tezuka /SPEJ. ASTRO BOY & ©2004 Tezuka Prods.

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Astro Boy/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

UK print advert

UK print advert (ASDA)

PDF

Press release

Print advert in Play (US) #32: "August 2004" (2004-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 43 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 70 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 55 PlayStation 2 Official Magazine - UK (UK) PAL 30

	50
Based on 4 reviews

Astro Boy

PlayStation 2, US
Cover
Disc Manual

PlayStation 2, EU
Cover

PlayStation 2, JP
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, AU
Cover

PlayStation 2, EU (Promo)
Cover

PlayStation 2, UK
Cover

PlayStation 2, FR
Cover

PlayStation 2, DE
Cover

PlayStation 2, ES
Cover

PlayStation 2, IT
Cover

PlayStation 2, Asia
Cover

PlayStation 2, KR
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 0f2bfce1 MD5 a260a43376c9fbee84c57c4fb89bf4e5 SHA-1 1f727c86aa57bfe855ba4598e61339db763c52ba	4,666,359,808		DVD-ROM (EU)	SLES-52486 (V1.00)
✔	CRC32 fe91a331 MD5 5c4b3273bbe2ce4c707cc37595a01a77 SHA-1 e7c8ffb6904c7be8c30481ce886942e30fb9ba12	4,698,243,072		DVD-ROM (JP)	SLPM-65551 (V1.00)
?	CRC32 a7a2f025 MD5 9679d609a1efdb20946f70aa103a97ac SHA-1 8fe7ee156448676cc58e7fcd38170144811e81c9	4,658,561,024		DVD-ROM (KR)	SLKA-25159 (V1.03)
?	CRC32 c088c483 MD5 f2fbd133198deabb2a869b090b47b7dc SHA-1 025d2582e1f71abaccf33de8d6c6a284cda75fae	4,658,921,472		DVD-ROM (US)	SLUS-20867 (V1.00)

External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 2
• Official website on Sega.jp (Japanese)
• Astro Boy on PlayStation.com: JP, US, UK, KR

References

Astro Boy games by Sega
	Astro Boy: Omega Factor (2003)
	Astro Boy (2004)
Sampler Discs
US Astro Boy Demo (20xx)
Astro Boy related media
	Astro Boy: Tetsuwan Atom: Game Soundtrack Score (2004)
	Prima's Official Strategy Guide: Astro Boy and Astro Boy: Omega Factor (2004)