Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg

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Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
System(s): GameCube, Windows PC
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sonic Team
Peripherals supported: GBA Cable
Genre: Platform
Number of players: 1-4
Official in-game languages: English Français Deutsch Español Italiano 日本語
Release Date RRP Code JP 2003-10-09 ¥6,980 (7,329)6,980 (7,329) DOL-P-GEGJ DOL-GEGJ-JPN JP (Okaidoku-ban) 2004-11-18 ¥2,800 (2,940)2,800 (2,940) DOL-P-GEGJ DOL-GEGJ-JPN-1 US 2003-09-23 $39.9539.95 DOL-P-GEZE DOL-GEZE-USA DE 2003-10-31 DOL-P-GEZP DOL-GEZP-NOE ES 2003-10-31 DOL-P-GEZP DOL-GEZP-ESP FR 2003-10-31 DOL-P-GEZP DOL-GEZP-FRA FR (Player's Choice) 2004-10-22 DOL-P-GEZP DOL-GEZP-FRA UK 2003-10-31 DOL-P-GEZP DOL-GEZP-UKV UK (Player's Choice) 2005-08-22 DOL-P-GEZP DOL-GEZP-UKV AU 2003-11-14 DE 2006-05-31 SEGA-PC034-GE INL-S034-GE ES 2006-05-31 SEGA-PC034-SP INL-S034-SP FR (Hits Collection) 2007 BYH3854AF BYH8AF-W8P UK 2006-05-31 SEGA-PC034-UK INL-S034-UK IT 2006-05-31 SEGA-PC034-IT INL-S034-IT RU 2006-04-19 SEGA-PC034-UK INL-S034-UK ZA 2006-04-07 R 199.99199.99

Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg , known as Giant Egg: Billy Hatcher no Daibouken (ジャイアント エッグ ～ビリー・ハッチャーの大冒険～) in Japan, is a video game for the Nintendo GameCube that was developed by Sonic Team and published by SEGA on 23 September 2003 in North America.

Story

Morning Land is a peaceful realm inhabited by chickens. One day, a terrible fate befell the land. Black Crows empowered by a mysterious magic appeared as ferocious monsters bent on keeping the world in eternal night. The Chicken Elders whose voices bring dawn each day were captured and sealed within golden eggs. Without their morning cries, the world will remain engulfed in darkness and human hearts will be consumed by evil. Now, only young Billy Hatcher and his friends can defeat the Crows, release the elders and return morning to the world.

Gameplay

Stages

	Forest Village
	Pirates Island
	Dino Mountain
	Blizzard Castle
	Circus Park
	Sand Ruin
	Giant Palace

Minigames

	Chu Chu Rocket Challenge
	NiGHTS Score Attack
	Billy Hatcher Hyper Shoot
	Puyo Pop Endless Version

Trivia

Trivia sections are bad Try and incorporate this information into the main article. See the manual of style to find out why.

The 4 characters playable in the multi player games are based off 4 of the main Sonic the Hedgehog characters - Billy is Sonic, Chick Poacher is Tails, Bantam Scrambled is Knuckles and Rolly Roll is Amy. The Hatcher characters use similar colors and copy poses - Billy on the boxart is in the same pose Sonic has in some of the Sonic Adventure 2 artwork (see below vs the boxart).

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Circus Park and Pirates Island are both names for levels seen in later Sonic the Hedgehog titles. Coincidentally, the composer of both level themes is this game's sound director.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg	Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
English (US)	Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg	Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
Japanese	ジャイアント エッグ ～ビリー・ハッチャーの大冒険～	Giant Egg: Billy Hatcher no Daibouken

Production credits

GameCube version

Staff

• Producer: Yuji Naka
• Director: Shun Nakamura
• Main Programmer: Yoshitaka Kawabata
• Art Director: Hideaki Moriya
• Sound Director: Mariko Nanba

Game Design Staff

• Lead Game Designer: Shun Nakamura
• Game Designers: Atsushi Kanno, Mizuki Hosoyamada

Programming Staff

• Lead System & Character Programmer: Yoshitaka Kawabata
• Boss & Camera Programmer: Masakazu Miura
• Egg Animal & Advertise Programmer: Yusuke Hasuo
• Field Programmer: Takuma Komatsu
• Boss Programmer: Junichi Takeda
• GBA Minigame Programmer: Takahiro Hamano

Design Staff

• Lead Designer: Hideaki Moriya
• Character Designers: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Michihiro Sato
• Character Coordinator: Yuji Uekawa
• Enemy Designers: Yoshinari Amaike, Hisanobu Kometani
• Egg Animal Designers: Ai Ikeda, Naho Asami
• Field Designers: Nanako Yarimizu, Satoshi Okano, Shio Hashimoto, Yohnosuke Miki, Ryoma Araki
• Battle Field Designers: Akira Mikame
• Advertise Designers: Yuki Takahashi, Miho Hyakutake
• Effects Designer: Wataru Watanabe

CG Movie Staff

• CG Movie Artists: Takeshi Ito, Tsuneyuki Matsumoto, Yukiwo Takahashi
• Storyboard Director: Hidetoshi Yoshida

Sound Staff

• Music and Sound Designed by: Wave Master Inc.
• Executive Producer: Yukifumi Makino
• Sound Producer: Tatsuya Kouzaki
• Sound Director: Mariko Nanba
• Music: Mariko Nanba, Tomoya Ohtani
• Sound Effects: Hideki Abe, Tomoya Ohtani
• Recording & Mixing Engineer: Yoshitada Miya
• Additional Engineer: Hirokazu Akashi
• Assistant Engineers: Fumiki Yamamoto (Power House Studio), Hiroshi Sato (Power House Studio)
• Recording Producers: Hidetaka Carl Shibata (Power House Studio), Fumitaka Shibata
• Technical Support: Shigeharu Isoda

Musicians

• Recording Director: Shige Kawagoe
• Guitar: Shige Kawagoe
• Bass: Ichiro Fujiya
• Drums: Naoto "Viva" Sugai
• Trumpet: Futoshi Kobayashi, Mikio Saitou
• Trombone: Hiroyuki Nomura
• Sax: Koji Orita
• Strings: Yu Suhino (VL), Tomomi Tokunaga (2nd VL), Saori Oka (VA), Yoshihiko Maeda (VC)
• Voices: Yujiro Komura, Nobue Iketani, Toshihiro Nishibe, Kyoko Tatemoto, Jun Otoi, Kantaro Kubo
• : Gekiden Tohai Corporation, Engekibentou Meko-Nya, Escalator Records
• Recording and Mixed at: Wave Master Studio
• Recording at: Power House Studio

"Chant this Charm" - Theme of Giant Egg

• Vocal: Yukari Fresh (Escalator Records)
• Words & Music: Mariko Nanba, Tomoya Ohtani
• Translator: Kan Hashimoto
• Arrangement: Shige Kawagoe

Character Voices

• : Hikaru Kobayashi, Yuuka Yamada, Kento Takahashi, Hideaki Nagasawa

Sega Staff

• Executive Management: Hisao Oguchi, Masanao Maeda, Hideki Okamura, Toshihiro Nagoshi, Yukio Sugino
• Marketing: Hideki Yokaichiya, Naoko Ooka
• Public Relations: Yasushi Nagumo, Youko Nagasawa
• Int'l Business: Yusuke Suai
• Sega Logistics Service Co., Ltd.
• Product Management: Junichi Shimizu
• Product Support: Akira Nishikawa, Akira Terasawa, Yutaka Kawasaki
• Quality Control: Yuji Nakamura
• Package & Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Masaru Kobayashi, Toshiki Yamaguchi, Restall Colin

Sega of America Staff

• VP of Marketing: Mike Fischer
• Advertising Manager: Teri Higgins
• Creative Services Manager: Arianne McCarthy
• Public Relations Chase: Molly Musler
• Localization Manager: Osamu Shibamiya
• Localization Producer: Klayton Vorlick
• Director of QA: Deborah Kirkham
• QA Lead: Shawn Dobbins

Sega Europe Staff

• COO Sega Europe: Naoya Tsurumi
• Director of Product Developement: Jin Shimazaki
• Producer: Akiko Uchida
• Senior Producer: Matt O'Driscoll
• European Product Manager: Mark Fisher
• European Marketing Director: Matthew Woodley
• Technical Producer: Elliott Martin
• Sega Europe Localization: Eva Backmann (GER), Marta Lois Gonzalez (SP), Brigitte Nadesan (FR), Giuseppe Rizzo (ITA)
• SOE QA Lead Tester: Darius Sadeghion
• SOE QA: David Smith, Roy Boateng, Chris Geiles

• Special Thanks: Yasuko Maruyama, Masaru Setsumaru, Fumie Kumatani, Keiichi Sugiyama, Sachiko Ochi, Ai Muroi, Teruhiko Nakagawa, Hideaki Kobayashi, Jun Senoue, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Ryoichi Nino, Takumi Ohtani
• Created by: Sonic Team

©SonicTeam/Sega, 2003

• Presented by: Sega

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• Executive Vice President: Shinobu Toyoda
• Vice President- Marketing: Mike Fischer
• Senior Product Manager: Rich Briggs
• Product Manager: Heather Hall
• Localization Manager: Osamu Shibamiya
• Localization Producer: Klayton Vorlick
• Director of QA: Deborah Kirkham
• Lead Tester: Shawn Dobbins
• Senior Media Speciaiist: Teri Higgins
• Creative Services Manager: Arianne McCarthy
• Pubiic Reiations Manager: Bret Blount
• Package Design: Moore Design Group
• Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Satoru Ishigami, Colin Restall
• Special Thanks: Lori Von Rueden, Jill Braff, Yusuke Suai, Access Communications

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

UK info sheet

File:GiantEgg GC JP TVAdvert.mp4

GameCube JP TV advert

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File:GiantEgg GC JP TVAdvert 2.mp4

GameCube JP TV advert

File:GiantEgg GC JP TVAdvert 2.mp4

File:BillyHatcherandtheGiantEggGCUSTVAdvert.mp4

GameCube US TV advert

File:BillyHatcherandtheGiantEggGCUSTVAdvert.mp4

Print advert in GamePro (US) #181: "October 2003" (2003-09-02)

Print advert in Nintendo Power (US) #172: "October 2003" (2003-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #171: "October 2003" (2003-09-02)

Print advert in Nintendo Power (US) #175: "January 2004" (200x-xx-xx)

Physical scans

GameCube version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Cube (UK) PAL 70 Edge (UK) PAL 70 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 78 GameNOW (US) NTSC-U 83 Game Play 128 (FR) PAL 88 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 75 GMR (US) NTSC-U 80 NGC Magazine (UK) NTSC-U 86 Nintendo Official Magazine (UK) PAL 82 Nintendo Power (US) NTSC-U 90 N-Zone (DE) PAL 76 The Official Nintendo Magazine (UK) PAL 85

	80
Based on 12 reviews

Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg

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PC version

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Technical information

ROM dump status

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External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): GameCube (archive)
• Official website on Sega.com
• Official website on Sega.jp
• Nintendo catalogue pages: JP, US (archive), UK

References

Games in the Billy Hatcher Series
	Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (2003)
	Billy Hatcher Hyper Shoot (2003)
	Billy Hatcher Hyper Shoot (2003)
	Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (2006)
Billy Hatcher related media
	Music Popped Out of the Egg (2003)
	Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg Official Strategy Guide (2003)