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Elemental Gimmick Gear

System(s): Sega Dreamcast

Publisher: Hudson Soft (Japan), Vatical Entertainment (US)

Developer: Hudson Soft, Birthday

Supporting companies: Polygon Magic

Peripherals supported: Visual Memory Unit, Dreamcast VGA Box

Genre: Action RPG^[1]^[2], RPG^[3]

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1999-05-27^[2]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e^[2]	T-14302M
US	1999-12-29^[4]	$49.9949.99^[5]	T-41601N

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Elemental Gimmick Gear, called Elemental Gimmick Gear: E.G.G. (エレメンタルギミックギア) in Japan, is a 1999 action RPG for the Sega Dreamcast by Hudson Soft and Birthday.

Production credits

Concept Game Design: Birthday Co.,Ltd.
Original Concept: Hiroaki Hara
E.G.G. Design: Hidetsugu Watanabe
Game Design: Hidetsugu Watanabe, Jun Matsui, Hisashi Teruya
Enemy Design: Jun Matsui
Visual Concept: Jun Matsui
Character Concept: Hisashi Teruya
Concept CG Art: Keishi Yamada
Visual Support: Toshiya Nonaka
Story Support: Takeshi Sawafuji
Supervisor: Hiroaki Hara

Program

Main Program: Masatoshi Sugibayashi
Boss Battle: Hirotomo Suzuki, Fumihiro Fujito, Yoshitaka Shibata, Masatoshi Sugibayashi
Enemy: Shoichi Tahata
Window System: Tetsuharu Takashima
Map: Hideki Nishimoto
Scenario Event: Yoko Miyabayashi
Trap: Shoichi Tahata
Sound Program: Hideki Nishimoto
Programming Director: Yasuhiro Kosaka

2D Design

Original Art: Hisashi Kubo, Shinichi Tsubota, Yuki Tanba
Map Layout: Hisashi Kubo
Map Paint: Shinichi Tsubota, Hideki Soma, Kouji Wajima, Daisuke Nakano, Tomoyuki Moriyama, Kaori Takabatake, Kouhei Syamoto
Map Effect: Hisashi Kubo, Hideki Soma
Animation Edit: Mikiko Fukuoka
Special Effects: Mikiko Fukuoka
Original E.G.G. Modeling: Tomoaki Watanabe
Sprite Design: Toshiro Okamoto, Akihiko Azuma, Hiromi Sugiue, Takayuki Numata, Tomoyuki Moriyama, Eiichi Ito, Katsuhito Fujiwara, Satoru Yoshioka, Miaki Arai, Toshifumi Wada, Kaori Kikuchi, Mikiya Komaba, Taeko Suzuki, Hayato Shimoda, Rika Yamakawa, Osamu Ogiwara, Tokuhiro Matsuzawa, Kohei Magome, Junko Ariga, Izumi Aoki, Masahiko Maesawa, Masahito Saito, Kazuhiko Enzaki, Masaya Takasaki, Mayuko Yano, Hiroaki Ito, Junya Komaki, Akira Matsumoto, Kayoko Murakami, Toshiyuki Terada, Naoya Tanaka

3D Design

Character Modeling: Mitoshi Kuwahara, Isamu Abe
Stage: Mitoshi Kuwahara, Toshinobu Kakizaki, Saeko Matsuura, Akinobu Sekiguchi
Art Director: Hisashi Kubo, Toshiro Okamoto

CG Movie

Original Concept Sketch: Syoji Mizuno, Hiroaki Hara
Supervisor: Yoichi Ogawa
Visual Effects Director: Kazuhisa Kamakura, Chie Katabuchi
CGI Chief Director: Masaki Takahashi
CGI Design: Masakuni Taira, Do Semin, Atsushi Nakata, Manabu Koike, Yoshiko Hashimoto
Visual Effects Design: Junko Takahashi, Kiyoko Shibuya, Hiromasa Inoue, Ryuichi Yagi
Solid Plastic: Hirokazu Ajiro
2D Chief Animator: Seiichi Mitsuoka
2D Animator: Masako Terada, Yukie Takahashi, Kumiko Hirama, Misuzu Ichinose
Digital Paint: Kazumi Soma, Satoko Oishi, Haruka Watanabe, Tsuyako Hikosaka, Masayo Osato
Digital Composite: Hiroyasu Omoto
Editor: Jin Kamohara, Zenjiro Motono
Production: Syoji Mizuno
Development Supervisor: Toshiro Okamoto
Movie Director: Syoji Mizuno

Sound

Compose: Haruyoshi Rokudo
Arrangement: Ichiro Shimakura
Sound Effects: Masato Aihara, Kazuhiko Sawaguchi
Wave Design: Osamu Narita, Hironao Yamamoto, Shohei Bando
Sound Director: Masaaki Inoue
Planning Scenario: Hiroaki Hara, Midori Tanno
Planning Director: Takeo Ito
Publicity: Satoshi Kobayashi, Shinichi Doi, Toru Sato, Ryutaro Kajino, Gaku Takeda
Cooperator: Kazuhiko Nonaka, Taiichi Matsuda, Keisuke Mitsui, Masaki Tsumori, Toshifumi Sekijima, Yuji Obara, Yukiko Mikami, Tetsuya Komatsu, Kaori Shirozu
E.G.G. Image Model: Takayuki Takeya, Eisaku Kito
Image Art Work: Kan Takahama

Voice Actress

Narration: Toshiko Fujita
Grand Mother: Eiko Masuyama
Psycho Mother: Rie Tanaka

Product Manager: Kunji Katsuki, Norihito Miyamoto
Producer: Hiroshi Igari

Shirogumi Inc.

Alpha Design Systems

Polygon Magic,Inc.

Birthday Co.,Ltd.

Hudson Soft Co.,Ltd.

Source:

In-game credits (JP)

Magazine articles

Main article: Elemental Gimmick Gear/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

JP flyer

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #1999-17: "1999-17 (1999-06-04)" (1999-05-21)

Print advert in Next Level (AR) #13: "Febrero 2000" (2000-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Consoles + (FR)

NTSC-J

84

^[6]

Dreamcast Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

83

^[7]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

NTSC-U

73

^[8]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

88

^[9]

Dreamzone (FR)

NTSC-J

89

^[10]

Dreamzone (FR)

NTSC-U

65

^[11]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

64

^[12]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

NTSC-J

81

^[13]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

NTSC-U

81

^[14]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

68

^[15]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

70

^[16]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

67

^[17]

Gamers' Republic (US)

NTSC-J

75

^[18]

Gamers' Republic (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[19]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[5]

Sega Magazin (DE)

NTSC-J

75

^[20]

Silicon Mag (US)

NTSC-U

76

^[21]

	74
Based on 17 reviews

Elemental Gimmick Gear

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Disc Manual Inlay

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Manual Inlay

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments

External links

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

References

↑ File:EGG DC JP Box Back.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 http://sega.jp/dc/990205/ (Wayback Machine: 2014-08-03 13:23)
↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software_l.html#tab01 (Wayback Machine: 2020-02-01 22:57)
↑ http://www.sega.com:80/sega/catalog/SegaProduct.jhtml?PRODID=231 (Wayback Machine: 2002-02-03 23:34)
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "March 2000" (US; 2000-02-08), page 84
↑ Consoles +, "Juillet/Août 1999" (FR; 1999-0x-xx), page 158
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "1999-17 (1999-06-04)" (JP; 1999-05-21), page 22
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 6" (UK; 2000-02-24), page 76
↑ Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33
↑ Dreamzone, "Juillet/Août 1999" (FR; 1999-06-18), page 113
↑ Dreamzone, "mi Avril-mi Mai 2000" (FR; 2000-04-14), page 108
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2000" (US; 2000-02-08), page 141
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 65
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 67
↑ Famitsu, "1999-06-04" (JP; 1999-05-21), page 30
↑ GamePro, "March 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 124
↑ Game Informer, "March 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 59
↑ Gamers' Republic, "August 1999" (US; 1999-07-18), page 92
↑ Gamers' Republic, "March 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 99
↑ Sega Magazin, "August 1999" (DE; 1999-07-07), page 19
↑ Silicon Mag, "February 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 16

Elemental Gimmick Gear

Books: Elemental Gimmick Gear Koushiki Complete Guide (1999)

[:File:EGG_DC_JP_Box_Back.jpg_p-1] File:EGG DC JP Box Back.jpg

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[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20200201225739.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fhistory.2Fhard.2Fdreamcast.2Fsoftware_l.html.23tab01-3] ttps://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software_l.html#tab01 (Wayback Machine: 2020-02-01 22:57)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20020203233405.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.sega.com:80.2Fsega.2Fcatalog.2FSegaProduct.jhtml.3FPRODID.3D231-4] ttp://www.sega.com:80/sega/catalog/SegaProduct.jhtml?PRODID=231 (Wayback Machine: 2002-02-03 23:34)

[:File:ODCM_US_04.pdf_p84-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Official Dreamcast Magazine, "March 2000" (US; 2000-02-08), page 84

[6] Consoles +, "Juillet/Août 1999" (FR; 1999-0x-xx), page 158

[:File:DCM_JP_19990604_1999-17.pdf_p22-7] Dreamcast Magazine, "1999-17 (1999-06-04)" (JP; 1999-05-21), page 22

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_06.pdf_p76-8] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 6" (UK; 2000-02-24), page 76

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p33-9] Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33

[:File:Dreamzone_4_1999_Scan.pdf_p113-10] Dreamzone, "Juillet/Août 1999" (FR; 1999-06-18), page 113

[:File:Dreamzone_12_2000_Scan.pdf_p108-11] Dreamzone, "mi Avril-mi Mai 2000" (FR; 2000-04-14), page 108

[:File:EGM_US_128.pdf_p141-12] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2000" (US; 2000-02-08), page 141

[13] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 65

[14] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 67

[15] Famitsu, "1999-06-04" (JP; 1999-05-21), page 30

[:File:GamePro_US_138.pdf_p124-16] GamePro, "March 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 124

[:File:GameInformer_US_083.pdf_p59-17] Game Informer, "March 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 59

[:File:GamersRepublic_US_15.pdf_p92-18] Gamers' Republic, "August 1999" (US; 1999-07-18), page 92

[:File:GamersRepublic_US_22.pdf_p99-19] Gamers' Republic, "March 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 99

[:File:SegaMagazin_DE_69.pdf_p19-20] Sega Magazin, "August 1999" (DE; 1999-07-07), page 19

[:File:SiliconMagazine_US_18.pdf_p16-21] Silicon Mag, "February 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 16

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Contents

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References