Space Channel 5

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Space Channel 5
System(s): Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega Software R&D Dept. 9 United Game Artists
Supporting companies: T's Music (audio)
Distributor: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (Europe)
Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Visual Memory Unit, Dreamcast VGA Box
Genre: Music Game/Ongaku Game (音楽ゲーム), Table, Action
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: 日本語 English Français Deutsch Español
Release Date RRP Code JP 1999-12-16 ¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e HDR-0029 JP (Dorikore) 2000-12-21 ¥2,800 (2,940)2,800e HDR-0140 US 2000-06-06 $49.9949.99 51051 EU 2000-10-06 MK-51051-50 DE 2000-10-05 MK-51051-50 ES 2000-10-05 FR 2000-10-06 MK-51051-50 PT 2000-10-06 DCJS22572 UK 2000-10-06 £39.9939.99 MK-51051-50 AU 2000-10-21 JP 2002-12-12 ¥3,000 (3,150)3,000e SLPM-65095 EU (Promo) 2002 SCES-50611 EU 2002-03-15 SCES-50611 DE 2002-03-15 SCES-50611 ES 2002-03-15 SCES-50611 FR 2002-03-15 SCES-50611 UK 2002-03-15 SCES-50611 IT 2002 SCES-50611 AU 200x

Space Channel 5 (スペースチャンネル5) is a video game for the Sega Dreamcast released in Japan on 16 December 1999, North America on 6 June 2000 and in Europe on 8 October 2000. It was the first game to be developed by the newly opened United Game Artists studio within Sega, spearheadded by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, although the UGA name had not yet been adopted by the original Japanese release.

The game stars Space Channel 5 reporter Ulala, tasked with upping the ratings of the channel, and stopping the "evil" Morolians, who are forcing the galaxy to dance.

Gameplay

Space Channel 5 is a rhythm game built similarly in nature to electronic memorisation games such Simon, and video games such as PaRappa the Rapper. Throughout the game the computer shows a sequence of moves—dance steps in this case—and the player must copy them successfully to advance. Repeated failure will force the show to be cancelled, effectively triggering a game over.

Space Channel 5 utilises six different commands - "Up", "Down", "Left", "Right", "Shoot" and "Shoot". The button corresponds to the aliens raising both paws or Ulala raising both hands. Pressing causes Ulala to lower only her right hand as her left hand contains a microphone. When either the or button are pressed she moves her hand in that direction. The Morolians will mimic Ulala's moves so pressing the directional pad will affect them also.

The "shoot" button is used for shooting at the Morolians or simply to perform another dance move. The "shoot" button is usually used for rescuing hostages. There also appears to be mispronunciation of "shoot" when the player presses either the or button. In the manual, it says "shoot", but the Morolians say words that are quite similar to "kiss", "chin". Ulala, Pudding, Jaguar and Evila say "chu", while Fuse says "shoot" or "chu".

In between these scenes, Ulala appears to be taunting the opponent (if the player gets all the moves correct) or have messed up the dance (if the player gets incorrect moves or misses a move). Ulala is given a certain number of hearts in case she misses a move or get an incorrect move. Performing a incorrect move will cause her to lose a heart. If she loses every one of her hearts she will then hunch over and become upset, with Fuse shouting at her.

Levels

	Introducing... Ulala!
	Spaceship SOS!
	Catch the scoop!
	Evil in the Galaxy Revealed!

Production credits

Main article: Space Channel 5/Production credits.

Dreamcast version

• Voices
  • Ulala: Herself
  • Fuse: Takashi Thomas Yuda
  • Jaguar: Sho Hayami
  • Pudding: Kae Iida
  • Blank: Kenji Utsumi
  • Space Michael: Michael Jackson (Thanks!)
• Choreographer: Nahoko Nezu, Shigeru "Pigeon" Araki
• Music: Dr.Pris (Kenichi Tokoi), Dr.Rachael (Naofumi Hataya)
• Director: Takashi Thomas Yuda
• Story & Game Design Director: Takumi Yoshinaga
• Game Design Supervisor: Yoshiyuki Okitsu
• Game Design Unit: Takao Esaka, Toshihide Ozeki, Mika Satou
• Programming Director: Hitoshi Nakanishi
• Space Programmers: Ise Susumu, Ko Midoro, Yuuki Hatakeyama
• Art Director: Yumiko Miyabe
• Character & Background Design: Mayumi Moro, Yumiko Miyabe, Deen Guns Project, Ken Okazaki, Shiro Kinemura, Jake Kazdal
• Character Modeling Supervisor: Mayumi Moro
• Character Modeling Unit: Ken Okazaki, Chisai Abe, Shinkichi Tanahashi, Nanako Yarimizu
• Character Animation Supervisor: Ken Okazaki
• Character Animation Unit: Takanori Ohnuki, Maiko Kitagawa, Yusuke Kashiwagi, Jake Kazdal, Kenya Suzuki, Shigeru "Pigeon" Araki
• Motion Capture Set Up: Kenichi Suzuki
• Visual Effects Designer: Taro Hino
• Film Editor: Ryutaro Sugiyama, Taro Hino, Kanji Suto, Kenichi Suzuki
• Camera Operation Unit: Mika Satou, Kanji Suto
• Sound Director: Naofumi Hataya
• Sound Producer: Yukifumi Makino
• Sound Technical Director: Tatsuya Kousaki
• Sound Effect: Takashi Endo
• Sound Programmers: Kazumi Suyama, Yoshiaki Kashima
• Recording Unit
  • Recording Director: Fumitaka Shibata
  • Recording Engineer: Hirokazu Akashi, Sawako Sogabe, Yoshitada Miya, Syuhei Mukai
• Musicians
  • Brass Arrangement: Tadashi Ohtsubo
  • Trumpet: Isao Sakuma, Mitsukuni Kohata, Naohito Watanabe, Naruhiro Kikuchi, Koichi Suzuki
  • Trombone: Yuji Shimoda, Gakutaro Miyauchi
  • Sax: Yo Shibano, Toshimichi Imao
  • Drum: Masashi Matsumoto
  • Bass: Koji Motosugi
  • Guitar: Chew-Taro Moritake
  • Chorus: Miho Fujiwara, Yoko Akama, Wornell Jones, Triad Project
  • Scores: Hiroshi Aso
• Recording Coordinator: Hidetaka Carl Shibata
• Recording And Mixed At: Sega Digital Studio
• Special Thanks: Jun Senoue
• A Very Special Thanks To: Tomoko Sasaki
  • 'Mexican Flyer': Ken Woodman & His Piccadilly Brass (Woodman)

CGI Support Unit

• Trilogy
  • Producer: Masaaki Taira
  • Director: Shinji Naka
  • : Yumiko Takahashi, Hiroyuki Takagai, Mika Ando
• Saihi Information Service Ltd
  • Producer: Makoto Baba
  • : Terumi Hamamoto
• Image Studio 109
  • Manager: Hiroyuki Ishiguro
  • : Hiroyuki Motai, Yusuke Aoki, Yoshiya Nagata
• Eyedentify Inc: Toshio Shinma, Daiji Hori, Taro Hino
• Special Thanks To: Hiroko Natori, Vfx Studio Loop Hole, Ogawa 3D&Visual Factory, Hironobu Kuwana

Space Channel 5 Promotion Unit

• Executive Producer: Hideki Okamura
• Producer: Takafumi 'Luckey' Ueoro
• Supervisor: Masatoshi Kawaguchi, Naoko'Anego'Ohka, Tomoe Yashiki (Sega Muse), Tetsuya Onishi (Sega Muse), Tadashi Takezaki, Junji Yamazaki, Junichiro 'J' Hirata, Yoshinobu Masahiro, Mineko Okamura
• Promotion Art Director: Masahiro "Magic" Kobayashi
• Desk Support: Yumiko Mouri, Akihiko Nagao, Sayuri Yajima
• Technical Support: Osamu Hori
• Production Management: Hayato Watanabe
• Special Thanks To: Katsuhiko Yamada, Tak Tsukuma, Miki Takagi, Kazuhiro Terasawa (T's Music), All R&D 9 Staff, Multi R&D Section
• Editing Design Team: Nobuhiko Shimizu (Desetsu), Kenya Orita
• Team Pheromone: Yumiko Mouri, Mineko Okamura, Yumiko Miyabe, Sayuri Yajima

All The People Who Cared For Us, And All The Families Who Supported Us.

• Technical Producer: Ryuichi Hattori
• Executive Producer: Syuji Utsumi
• Very Executive Producer: Sadahiko Hirose, Hisashi Suzuki
• Very Very Executive Producer: Shoichiro Irimajiri
• Very Very Very Executive Producer: Isao Okawa
• Assistant Producer: Hayato Watanabe, Mineko Okamura
• Producer: Tetsuya Mizuguchi

For All People Who Love Music ,Dance And Game.

• Presented by: Sega

©Sega Enterprises, Ltd., 1999

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In-game credits (JP)

PlayStation 2 version

• Voices
  • Ulala: Herself
  • Fuse: Takashi Thomas Yuda
  • Jaguar: Sho Hayami
  • Pudding: Kae Iida
  • Blank: Kenji Utsumi
  • Space Michael: Michael Jackson (Thanks!)
• Choreographer: Nahoko Nezu, Shigeru "Pigeon" Araki
• Music: Dr.Pris (Kenichi Tokoi), Dr.Rachael (Naofumi Hataya)
• Director: Takashi Thomas Yuda
• Story & Game Design Director: Takumi Yoshinaga
• Game Design Supervisor: Yoshiyuki Okitsu
• Game Design Unit: Takao Esaka, Toshihide Ozeki, Mika Satou
• Programming Director: Hitoshi Nakanishi
• Space Programmers: Ise Susumu, Ko Midoro, Yuuki Hatakeyama
• Art Director: Yumiko Miyabe
• Character & Background Design: Mayumi Moro, Yumiko Miyabe, Deen Guns Project, Ken Okazaki, Shiro Kinemura, Jake Kazdal
• Character Modeling Supervisor: Mayumi Moro
• Character Modeling Unit: Ken Okazaki, Chisai Abe, Shinkichi Tanahashi, Nanako Yarimizu
• Character Animation Supervisor: Ken Okazaki
• Character Animation Unit: Takanori Ohnuki, Maiko Kitagawa, Yusuke Kashiwagi, Jake Kazdal, Kenya Suzuki, Shigeru "Pigeon" Araki
• Motion Capture Set Up: Kenichi Suzuki
• Visual Effects Designer: Taro Hino
• Film Editor: Ryutaro Sugiyama, Taro Hino, Kanji Suto, Kenichi Suzuki
• Camera Operation Unit: Mika Satou, Kanji Suto
• Sound Development By: Wave Master Inc.
• Sound Director: Naofumi Hataya
• Sound Producer: Yukifumi Makino
• Sound Technical Director: Tatsuya Kousaki
• Sound Effect: Takashi Endo
• Sound Programmers: Kazumi Suyama, Yoshiaki Kashima
• Recording Unit
  • Recording Director: Fumitaka Shibata
  • Recording Engineer: Hirokazu Akashi, Sawako Sogabe, Yoshitada Miya, Syuhei Mukai
• Musicians
  • Brass Arrangement: Tadashi Ohtsubo
  • Trumpet: Isao Sakuma, Mitsukuni Kohata, Naohito Watanabe, Naruhiro Kikuchi, Koichi Suzuki
  • Trombone: Yuji Shimoda, Gakutaro Miyauchi
  • Sax: Yo Shibano, Toshimichi Imao
  • Drum: Masashi Matsumoto
  • Bass: Koji Motosugi
  • Guitar: Chew-Taro Moritake
  • Chorus: Miho Fujiwara, Yoko Akama, Wornell Jones, Triad Project
  • Scores: Hiroshi Aso
• Recording Coordinator: Hidetaka Carl Shibata
• Recording And Mixed At: Wave Master Recording Studio
• Special Thanks: Jun Senoue
• A Very Special Thanks To: Tomoko Sasaki
  • 'Mexican Flyer': Ken Woodman & His Piccadilly Brass (Woodman)

Porting to Reprogrammed Version unit

• Programmers: Satoru Takeshima, Koji Kaifu
• Technical Support: Osamu Hori, Takeshi Hirai
• Sound Director: Naofumi Hataya
• Sound Data Convert: Takeshi Sato (T's Music)
• Game Design: Yoshiyuki Okitsu
• Artist: Yusuke Kashiwagi
• Movie Support: Yoshio Inoue
• File Editoe: Ryutaro Sugiyama
• Production Management: Hayato Watanabe

CGI Support Unit

• Trilogy
  • Producer: Masaaki Taira
  • Director: Shinji Naka
  • : Yumiko Takahashi, Hiroyuki Takagai, Mika Ando
• Saihi Information Service Ltd
  • Producer: Terumi Hamamoto
  • : Makoto Baba
• Image Studio 109
  • Manager: Yusuke Aoki
  • : Hiroyuki Ishiguro, Yoshiya Nagata, Hiroyuki Motai
• Eyedentify Inc: Toshio Shinma, Daiji Hori
• Special Thanks To: Hiroko Natori, Hironobu Kuwana, Vfx Studio Loop Hole, Ogawa 3D&Visual Factory
• Promotion Art Director: Masahiro "Magic" Kobayashi
• Promotion Unit: Mineko Okamura, Junji Yamazaki
• Desk Support: Sayuri Yajima, Rio Toyoda

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

• Producers: Sean Kelly, Florence Kum
• Internal QA Manager: Dave Parkinson
• Internal QA Supervisor: Jim Mccabe
• Team Leader: Phil Green
• Localisation Supervisor: Britta Kuhnen

Sega Corporation

• International Business & Production Dept.
• Senior Officer: Masanao Maeda, Hitoshi Okuno, Shinobu Shindo
• QA & Test Lead: Akira Nishikawa, Akira Terasawa
• QA & Test: Masashi Yamakawa, Taiji Ochiai, Makoto Sakuma, Editing Design Team (Desetsu)

Sega Europe

• Director-pd: Kats Sato
• Producers Manager: Aude Donnan
• Producer: Akiko Koutstaal
• Lead Tester: Mat Brooks
• Software manual & Packaging: Tom Bingle, Emma Ledda
• Translators: Caroline Ruiz, Enrique Gonzalez Fajardo, Jens Geffert
• Special Thanks To: All UGA Staff, Shuji Utsumi, Kazuhiro Terasawa (T's Music), Katsuhiko Yamada

All The People Who Cared For Us, And All The Families Who Supported Us.

• Technical Producer: Ryuichi Hattori
• Assitant Producers: Hayato Watanabe
• : Mineko Okamura
• Executive Producer: Tetsu Kayama
• Producer: Tetsuya Mizuguchi

For All People Who Love Music ,Dance And Game.

• Presented by: Sega

©SEGA CORPORATION,1999

• Reprogramed by: UGA

Source:

In-game credits (EU)

Magazine articles

Main article: Space Channel 5/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in GamePro (US) #141: "June 2000" (2000-0x-xx)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #132: "July 2000" (2000-06-06)

Print advert in Next Level (AR) #17: "Junio 2000" (2000-xx-xx)

Print advert in GamePro (US) #143: "August 2000" (2000-0x-xx)

Print advert in Bonus (YU) #7: "7/2000" (2000-09-25)
also published in:

• Bonus (YU) #8: "8/2000" (2000-10-25)
• Bonus (YU) #9: "9/2000" (2000-12-25)
• Bonus (YU) #10: "1/2001" (2001-02-25)
• Bonus (YU) #11: "2/2001" (2001-03-25)
• Bonus (YU) #12: "3/2001" (2001-04-25)
• Bonus (YU) #13: "4/2001" (2001-05-25)
• Bonus (YU) #14: "5/2001" (2001-06-25)
• Bonus (YU) #15: "6/2001" (2001-07-25)

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

• Neo Plus (PL) #31: "Kwiecień 2001" (2001-xx-xx)
• Neo Plus (PL) #32: "Maj 2001" (2001-xx-xx)
• Neo Plus (PL) #33: "Czerwiec 2001" (2001-xx-xx)
• Neo Plus (PL) #34: "Lipiec-Sierpień 2001" (2001-xx-xx)
• Neo Plus (PL) #35: "Wrzesień 2001" (2001-xx-xx)

Television advertisements

File:SpaceChannel5 Commercial.mp4

US

File:SpaceChannel5 Commercial.mp4

File:SpaceChannel5 DC JP TVAdvert.mp4

JP

File:SpaceChannel5 DC JP TVAdvert.mp4

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Physical scans

Dreamcast version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Entertainment Weekly (US) 91 June 2000 100 USA Today

	96
Based on 2 reviews

Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score 576 Konzol (HU) 90 Bonus (YU) NTSC 92 Click! (PL) 80 Consoles + (FR) PAL 89 Computer & Video Games (UK) 100 Dreamcast Monthly (UK) PAL 80 Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel (FR) PAL 70 Dreamcast Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 93 Dreamcast Magazine (UK) NTSC-J 91 Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL 90 Dorimaga (JP) NTSC-J 90 Dreamzone (FR) NTSC-J 85 Edge (UK) NTSC-J 60 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 77 Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU) 79 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 73 Fun Generation (DE) NTSC-J 93 GameFan (US) NTSC-J 82 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 73 GamesMaster (UK) 82 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 75 Gamers' Republic (US) NTSC-U 83 GameWEEK (US) NTSC-U 58 Hyper (AU) NTSC-J 84 Incite Video Gaming (US) NTSC-U 100 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 82 Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-U 81 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 79 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 75 Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL 80 Play (PL) 80 Sega Magazin (DE) NTSC-U 85 Strana Igr (RU) 75 Strana Igr (RU) 80 Video Games (DE) PAL 87

	82
Based on 35 reviews

Space Channel 5

Dreamcast, JP
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Spinecard Disc Manual Inlay Reg Card Insert 50x50px Flyer

Dreamcast, JP (Dorikore)
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Spinecard Disc Inlay

Dreamcast, US
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Disc Manual Inlay

Dreamcast, EU
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PlayStation 2 version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Game Informer (US) 83 Game Informer

	83
Based on 1 review

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score 576 Konzol (HU) 95 Consoles Max (FR) PAL 70 Consoles + (FR) PAL 88 Digitiser (UK) 40 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 82 PlayStation 2 Official Magazine - UK (UK) PAL 70 Players (DE) PAL 79 Play (PL) 61 PlayZone (DE) PAL 82 PlayStation World (UK) PAL 80 Power Unlimited (NL) 88

	76
Based on 11 reviews

Space Channel 5

PlayStation 2, JP
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PlayStation 2, EU (Promo)
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PlayStation 2, EU
Cover

PlayStation 2, UK
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PlayStation 2, UK (Display)
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PlayStation 2, FR
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PlayStation 2, FR (Display)
Cover
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PlayStation 2, DE
Cover

PlayStation 2, ES
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PlayStation 2, ES (Display)
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PlayStation 2, IT
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PlayStation 2, AU
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		2000-04-20	GD-R				Page
?	CRC32 9c0ded7c MD5 c7d945c1f79bd7c6dedd7546ec758928 SHA-1 159ebc2f6feb1e4f4b3c92a2690241766d6f39ba	1,901,887,488		DVD-ROM (EU)	SCES-50611 (V1.01)

External links

• Sega of America webpage: Dreamcast
• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast, Dreamcast (Dorikore), PlayStation 2
• Space Channel 5 on PlayStation.com: JP
• In the Realm of the Senses: Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Synthesis of Synaesthesia & Video Gaming - Part III: "Hey there, space cats..." article by Amir Moosavi at Medium
• How Michael Jackson Willed His Way Into Sega’s Space Channel 5 article by Kris Knigge at Siliconera (Wayback Machine)
• Mororians Wreak Havoc in Shibuya: Rug-cutting alien beings disrupted a scheduled Sega press conference in the heart of Tokyo article by Colin ‘Mororian Liberation Front’ Williamson at IGN DC (Wayback Machine)
• SEGA Memories: SEGA’s amazing E3 2000 floor show article by Barry Harmon at SEGAbits
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi Speaks About the Soul of Space Channel 5 article by Anoop Gantayat at IGN
• IGNDC Sits Down with Space Channel 5's Tetsuya Mizuguchi article by Brandon "Mad Morolien" Justice and Colin "Phat Beats" Williamson at IGN DC (Wayback Machine)
• Sega's Tetsuya Mizuguchi Interviewed article at GameSpot