Sports Jam

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Sports Jam

System(s): Sega NAOMI GD-ROM, Sega Dreamcast

Publisher:

Sega (JP)

Agetec (US)

Developer: WOW Entertainment

Peripherals supported:

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

Genre: Sports Variety (スポーツ･バラエティ)^[1]^[2], Sports^[3]

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2000-12	¥?	GDS-0003

JP	2001-04-12^[2]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e^[2]	HDR-0153
US	2001-07-18		T-44304N

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Sports Jam (スポーツ・ジャム) is a Sega Dreamcast and Sega NAOMI release containing a number of sports games.

Production credits

Executive Producer: Rikiya Nakagawa
Producer: Kenichi Imaeda
Director: Yasutake Nakayama

Dreamcast Version

Design Section: Taku Makino, Toshihiro Ando
Soft Section: Akira Wada, Motoyoshi Sato, Hiroshi Ando
Network: Tatsuya Watanabe, Hiromi Tanaka
Sound Section: Nanae Kenda, Susumu Tsukagoshi
Publicity Section: Mizuki Marui, Noriko Yamada, Takuya Tsunomura
Manual And Package Design: Toshihiro Ando, Osamu Nakazato (Sega), Naohico Iida (Sega)

Naomi Version

Design Section: Taku Makino, Akira Miyanishi, Satoshi Nakajima, Toshihiro Ando, Shien Kato, Yasuhito Kuroiwa, Ryodo Tanaka, Toshihiro Fujimaki
Soft Section: Hiroshi Ando, Akira Wada, Gen Miyazaki, Motoyoshi Sato
Sound Section: Nanae Kenda
Cabinet Design: Hiroyuki Naitoh (Sega)
Special Thanks: Kaori Fukano, Sega Thunderbolt, Shinjuku Sports Land, All Players of Sports Jam, Swatch, adidas
Created by: WOW Entertainment
Presented by: Sega

©Wow Entertainment/Sega 2000,2001

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Sports Jam/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2001-12: "2001-12 (2001-04-27,05-04)" (2001-04-13)

Physical scans

NAOMI version

NAOMI GD-ROM, JP
"Long" instructions "Long" instructions (2)
Disc Manual

Dreamcast version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

576 Konzol (HU)

90

^[6]

Ação Games (BR)

77

^[7]

Consoles + (FR)

NTSC-U

85

^[8]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

NTSC-J

82

^[9]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

73

^[5]

Dreamzone (FR)

NTSC-J

88

^[10]

Edge (UK)

NTSC-J

60

^[4]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

57

^[11]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

68

^[12]

Game Informer (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[13]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC-J

60

^[14]

PSX Extreme (PL)

PAL

60

^[15]

	73
Based on 12 reviews

Sports Jam

Dreamcast, JP
Cover

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Inlay

Technical information

The announcer's character model consists of 18,357 polygons, including 17,183 polygons for the body^[16] and 1174 polygons for the shadow.^[17] This was the highest character polygon count in any video game at the time, surpassing the character polygon counts of Shenmue (up to 14,361 polygons), up until it was surpassed the following year by Virtua Fighter 4 (on the Sega NAOMI 2 arcade system) which had about 20,000 polygons per character.^[18] Sports Jam also had the highest character polygon count of any consoles game at the time (the highest on any other console was up to 15,000 polygons in Dead or Alive 3 and Dead or Alive Ultimate on the Xbox) up until the release of the Xbox 360 in 2005.^[19]

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

References

↑ File:SportsJam DC JP Box Back.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 http://sega.jp/dc/db/010411.html (Wayback Machine: 2004-12-06 04:28)
↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-11-08 10:29)
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Edge, "August 2001" (UK; 2001-07-13), page 100
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34
↑ 576 Konzol, "Május 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 43
↑ Ação Games, "Setembro 2001" (BR; 2001-xx-xx), page 46
↑ Consoles +, "Juin 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 90
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 24" (UK; 2001-07-12), page 60
↑ Dreamzone, "Mai 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 44
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 2001" (US; 2001-07-03), page 111
↑ Famitsu, "2001-04-20" (JP; 2001-04-06), page 32
↑ Game Informer, "August 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 106
↑ MAN!AC, "06/2001" (DE; 2001-05-02), page 50
↑ PSX Extreme, "09/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 57
↑ File:SportsJam announcer model.png
↑ File:SportsJam announcer model with shadow.png
↑ http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20061025/3dvf5.htm (Wayback Machine: 2008-12-08 05:05)
↑ https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/yes-but-how-many-polygons-an-artist-blog-entry-with-interesting-numbers.39321/ (Wayback Machine: 2015-01-08 01:39)

[:File:SportsJam_DC_JP_Box_Back.jpg_p-1] File:SportsJam DC JP Box Back.jpg

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20041206042807.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fdc.2Fdb.2F010411.html-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 http://sega.jp/dc/db/010411.html (Wayback Machine: 2004-12-06 04:28)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20201108102932.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fhistory.2Fhard.2Fdreamcast.2Fsoftware.html-3] ttps://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-11-08 10:29)

[:File:Edge_UK_100.pdf_p100-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Edge, "August 2001" (UK; 2001-07-13), page 100

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p34-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34

[6] 576 Konzol, "Május 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 43

[:File:AcaoGames_BR_167.pdf_p46-7] Ação Games, "Setembro 2001" (BR; 2001-xx-xx), page 46

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_113.pdf_p90-8] Consoles +, "Juin 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 90

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_24.pdf_p60-9] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 24" (UK; 2001-07-12), page 60

[:File:Dreamzone_FR_24.pdf_p44-10] Dreamzone, "Mai 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 44

[:File:EGM_US_145.pdf_p111-11] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 2001" (US; 2001-07-03), page 111

[12] Famitsu, "2001-04-20" (JP; 2001-04-06), page 32

[:File:GameInformer_US_100.pdf_p106-13] Game Informer, "August 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 106

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2001-06.pdf_p50-14] MAN!AC, "06/2001" (DE; 2001-05-02), page 50

[15] PSX Extreme, "09/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 57

[:File:SportsJam_announcer_model.png_p-16] File:SportsJam announcer model.png

[:File:SportsJam_announcer_model_with_shadow.png_p-17] File:SportsJam announcer model with shadow.png

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20081208050529.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fgame.watch.impress.co.jp.2Fdocs.2F20061025.2F3dvf5.htm-18] ttp://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20061025/3dvf5.htm (Wayback Machine: 2008-12-08 05:05)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20150108013908.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fforum.beyond3d.com.2Fthreads.2Fyes-but-how-many-polygons-an-artist-blog-entry-with-interesting-numbers.39321.2F-19] ttps://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/yes-but-how-many-polygons-an-artist-blog-entry-with-interesting-numbers.39321/ (Wayback Machine: 2015-01-08 01:39)

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Contents

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

NAOMI version

Dreamcast version

Technical information

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References