NBA 2K

"NBA Basketball" redirects here. For the Sega Game Gear game sometimes referred to by that name, see NBA Action Starring David Robinson.

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NBA 2K

System(s): Sega Dreamcast

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Visual Concepts

Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Visual Memory Unit, Dreamcast VGA Box

Genre: Sports

Number of players: 1-4

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2000-03-23	¥5,8005,800	HDR-0069
US	1999-11-10	$49.9549.95^[1]	51004
US (Sega All Stars)	2000-08-22
EU	2000-03-03^[2]		MK-51004-53
AU	xxxx	$89.9589.95^[4]
BR	xxxx		197206

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NBA 2K is a basketball game for the Sega Dreamcast. During development it was known simply as NBA Basketball, and then later, NBA 2000.

Production credits

Visual Concepts Credits

Lead Engineer: Aki Rimpiläinen
Director of Technology: Tim Walter
Art Director: Matthew Crysdale
Lead Library Engineer: Chuck Batson
Audio Director: Brian Luzietti
Lead Tools Engineer: Audrey Seymour
Programming: Bob Alexander, Trevor Stricker, Johnnie Yang
Additional Programming: Gary Arnold, Wolff Dobson, Matthew Hamre, Nich Jones, Chris Larson, Shawn Lee, Scott Patterson
Artists: Eric Apel, Desha Chanhdara, Cameron Chun, David Dame, Avril Harrison, Quinn Kaneko, Kurt Lai-Fatt, David Lee, Steve Paris, Leandro Penaloza, Joyce Rietveld, Kaj Swift, Nelson Wang, Ray Wong
Sound Designer: Larry Peacock
Tools Engineers: Brian K. Hughes, Joshua Lee, Nick Verne
Executive Producer: Greg Thomas
Project Manager: Asif Chaudhri
Assistant Project Manager: Rustin Lee
Quality Assurance: Rick Andraschko
Special Thanks: Alice Crysdale, Wayne Herman, Tim Meekins, Jeff Thomas, Richard Yee, Solano College Players, Jerry Miller - Coach, Elvis Assemlan, Columbus Bender, Mike Dial, Ricky Franklin, Marshaun Jourdan, Lukas Kennedy, Kevin Lucia, Patrick McCoy, Maurice McLemore, Wes Miller, John Ojo, Gabriel Rench, Omar Sanchez, Damon Smith, Kris Thomas

Sega Credits

Senior Producer: Marcus Matthews
Producer: Tracy Johnson
Assistant Producer: Derrick Aynaga
Sega Sports Team: Lorne Asuncion, Kirby Fong, David Perkinson, Matt Underwood
Director / Sports Marketing: Martha Hill
Special Consultant: Rod Higgins (Golden State Warriors)
Motion Capture Talent: Saif Abdur-Rahim, Waliyy "Hook" Abdur-Rahim, Roy Byrd, Tony Delk, Ward Farris, Charles "Bo" Outlaw, David Paniagua, Kuwan Roach, Seth Sundberg
Motion Capture: House of Moves, Jarrod Phillips, James Scanlon, Tom Tolles
Goal Line Productions: Cheryl Levine, Paul Levine, Joe Madden
Audio Script Writing: Robert Thomas
Voice Over: Rod Brooks (as "The Color Announcer"), Dick Callahan (as "The PA Announcer"), Bob Fitzgerald (as "The Play By Play Commentator")
Recording Studio: Conscious Sound Studios, Benjamin Grant DePauw
Playbook Design: Derrick Aynaga, Rod Higgins (Golden State Warriors)
Player Rating and Stat Database: Lorne Asuncion, Derrick Aynaga, Matt Underwood
Lead Testers: Ed Brady, David Paniagua
Assistant Lead: Willie Wareham
Testers: Richard Allard, Jat Armstrong, Roger Becker, Gabrielle Brown, Joey Edwards, B.J. Enriquez, Scott Etkin, David Fischer, Benjie Galvez, Howard Gipson, Joe Gora, Aaron Guardamuz, Keehwan Her, Jason Hill, Brian Ivanhoe, Michael King, Schiloh Kleep, Matt Luich, Mike Mansourian, Chris Meyer, Abe Navarro, Jermaine Ong, Patrick Pendergast, Mike Rhinehart, Rick Ribble, Jonas Robledo, Jeff Sideno, Todd Slepian, Dan Windrem
Special Thanks - Sega of America: John Amirkhan, Roxana Armour, Charlie Bellfield, Sandy Castagnola, John Cheng, Sean Doidge, Joanne Eastman, Eric Hammond, Scott Hartin, Teri Higgins, Sheri Hockaday, Fred Huey, Cindy Jenney, Judy Jette, Kathleen Joyce, Makoto Kaneshiro, Dave Karraker, Stacey Keff, Karen Kress, Gary Lake, Mike McCollum, Tom Miley, Peter Moore, Toshi Morita, Lynne Poirier, Mitzi Reagan, Neal Robison, Karen Schachter, Undyne Stafford, Andrew Stein, Bernie Stolar, Jane Thompson, Shinobu Toyoda, Alex Villagran, Jennifer Walker, Jim Yamashita
Special Thanks - Sega of Japan: Shoichiro Irimajiri, Kenichi Iwanaga, Masaki Kawahori, Shoji Nishikawa, Keiko Terashima, Shuji Utsumi
Special Thanks ‑ NEC: M. Imanishi
NBA Entertainment, Inc.: Shana Hoernke, Greg Lassen
Allsport Photography: Peter Orlowsky, Justin Weiss
Player Headshots: (C)NBA Entertainment
Arena Reference Material: Allsport Photography
European Producer: Matt O'Driscoll
Localisation Co-ordinator: Roberto Prraga-Snchez
Localisation Team: Angelika Michitsch, Dave Thompson, Roberto Prraga-Snchez

Source:

In-game credits ^[5]

Magazine articles

Main article: NBA 2K/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Gamers' Republic (US) #19: "December 1999" (1999-11-15)
also published in:

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #125: "December 1999" (1999-11-09)^[6]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #127: "February 2000" (2000-01-11)^[7]

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2000-09: "2000-09 (2000-03-17)" (2000-03-03)
also published in:

Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2000-12: "2000-12 (2000-04-07)" (2000-03-24)^[8]

Print advert in Playmag (FR) #45: "Mars 2000" (2000-0x-xx)

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

US Television advert

Artwork

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

576 Konzol (HU)

75

^[14]

Arcade (UK)

PAL

75

^[9]

Consoles + (FR)

PAL

93

^[15]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

100

^[3]

Dreamcast Monthly (UK)

NTSC

80

^[16]

DC-UK (UK)

PAL

80

^[17]

Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel (FR)

PAL

90

^[18]

Dreamcast Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

83

^[11]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

89

^[2]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

90

^[12]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

85

^[19]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

83

^[20]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

93

^[21]

Gamers' Republic (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[22]

Incite Video Gaming (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[23]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

87

^[24]

Mega Fun (DE)

NTSC-U

94

^[25]

Neo Plus (PL)

90

^[26]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[27]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

80

^[28]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[29]

Playbox (FR)

90

^[30]

Playmag (FR)

PAL

85

^[31]

PSX Extreme (PL)

87

^[32]

Revista Oficial Dreamcast (ES)

PAL

90

^[33]

	87
Based on 25 reviews

NBA 2K

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Inlay

Dreamcast, US (Sega All Stars)
Cover

Dreamcast, EU
Cover
Disc Manual

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc Inlay

Dreamcast, BR
Cover
Disc

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

References

↑ Press release: 1999-11-11: Sega Sports NBA 2K for Sega Dreamcast Sets an All New Standard in Realistic Basketball Action
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 6" (UK; 2000-02-24), page 66
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Computer & Video Games, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-16), page 97
↑ Hyper, "April 2000" (AU; 2000-xx-xx), page 88
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yXpkhpyaic
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1999" (US; 1999-11-09), page 17
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "February 2000" (US; 2000-01-11), page 71
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-12 (2000-04-07)" (JP; 2000-03-24), page 2
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Arcade, "February 2000" (UK; 2000-01-31), page 96
↑ Consoles +, "Mars 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 114/115 (114)
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-11 (2000-03-31)" (JP; 2000-03-17), page 23
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33
↑ Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Marzo 2000" (ES; 2000-0x-xx), page 46-49 (46)
↑ 576 Konzol, "Április 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 43
↑ Consoles +, "Mars 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 114
↑ Dreamcast Monthly, "January 2000" (UK; 1999-12-16), page 71
↑ DC-UK, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-18), page 28
↑ Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel, "Mars/Avril 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 74
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 2000" (US; 1999-12-07), page 222
↑ Famitsu, "2000-03-31" (JP; 2000-03-17), page 34
↑ GamePro, "January 2000" (US; xxxx-xx-xx), page 118
↑ Gamers' Republic, "January 2000" (US; 1999-12-19), page 102
↑ Incite Video Gaming, "January 2000" (US; xxxx-xx-xx), page 118
↑ MAN!AC, "03/2000" (DE; 2000-02-02), page 94
↑ Mega Fun, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-05), page 78
↑ Neo Plus, "Marzec 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 41
↑ Next Generation, "January 2000" (US; 1999-12-21), page 92
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-10), page 79
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "January 2000" (US; 1999-12-05), page 94
↑ Playbox, "Décembre 2000" (FR; 2000-1x-xx), page 49
↑ Playmag, "Mars 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 98
↑ PSX Extreme, "03/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 40
↑ Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Marzo 2000" (ES; 2000-0x-xx), page 46

NBA 2K

Books: NBA 2K Official Strategy Guide (1999) | NBA 2K Perfect Guide (2000)

Prototypes: 1999-09-22 | 12-21

2K Basketball games Published by Sega
	NBA 2K (1999) \| NBA 2K1 (2000) \| NBA 2K2 (2001)
	NBA 2K2 (2002) \| NBA 2K3 (2002) \| NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (2002)
	NBA 2K2 (2002) \| NBA 2K3 (2002) \| NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (2002) \| ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN College Hoops (2003) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN College Hoops 2K5 (2004)
2K Basketball related media
	NBA 2K Official Strategy Guide (1999) \| NBA 2K Perfect Guide (2000) \| NBA 2K3 Official Perfect Guide (2002) \| Prima's Official Strategy Guide: ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 Official Strategy Guide (2004)

[Press_release:_1999-11-11:_Sega_Sports_NBA_2K_for_Sega_Dreamcast_Sets_an_All_New_Standard_in_Realistic_Basketball_Action-1] Press release: 1999-11-11: Sega Sports NBA 2K for Sega Dreamcast Sets an All New Standard in Realistic Basketball Action

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_06.pdf_p66-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 6" (UK; 2000-02-24), page 66

[:File:CVG_UK_220.pdf_p97-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Computer & Video Games, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-16), page 97

[:File:Hyper_AU_078.pdf_p88-4] Hyper, "April 2000" (AU; 2000-xx-xx), page 88

[https:.2F.2Fwww.youtube.com.2Fwatch.3Fv.3D5yXpkhpyaic-5] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yXpkhpyaic

[:File:EGM_US_125.pdf_p17-6] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1999" (US; 1999-11-09), page 17

[:File:EGM_US_127.pdf_p71-7] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "February 2000" (US; 2000-01-11), page 71

[:File:DCM_JP_20000407_2000-12.pdf_p2-8] Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-12 (2000-04-07)" (JP; 2000-03-24), page 2

[:File:Arcade_UK_16.pdf_p96-9] 9.0 ^9.1 Arcade, "February 2000" (UK; 2000-01-31), page 96

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_098.pdf_p114_.28114.2F115.29-10] Consoles +, "Mars 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 114/115 (114)

[:File:DCM_JP_20000331_2000-11.pdf_p23-11] 11.0 ^11.1 Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-11 (2000-03-31)" (JP; 2000-03-17), page 23

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p33-12] 12.0 ^12.1 Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33

[:File:ROD_ES_03.pdf_p46_.2846-49.29-13] Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Marzo 2000" (ES; 2000-0x-xx), page 46-49 (46)

[14] 576 Konzol, "Április 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 43

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_098.pdf_p114-15] Consoles +, "Mars 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 114

[:File:DreamcastMonthly_UK_04.pdf_p71-16] Dreamcast Monthly, "January 2000" (UK; 1999-12-16), page 71

[:File:DCUK_UK_07.pdf_p28-17] DC-UK, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-18), page 28

[:File:DLMO_FR_03.pdf_p74-18] Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel, "Mars/Avril 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 74

[:File:EGM_US_126.pdf_p222-19] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 2000" (US; 1999-12-07), page 222

[20] Famitsu, "2000-03-31" (JP; 2000-03-17), page 34

[:File:GamePro_US_136.pdf_p118-21] GamePro, "January 2000" (US; xxxx-xx-xx), page 118

[:File:GamersRepublic_US_20.pdf_p102-22] Gamers' Republic, "January 2000" (US; 1999-12-19), page 102

[:File:InciteVideoGaming_US_2.pdf_p118-23] Incite Video Gaming, "January 2000" (US; xxxx-xx-xx), page 118

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-03.pdf_p94-24] MAN!AC, "03/2000" (DE; 2000-02-02), page 94

[:File:MegaFun_DE_2000-02.pdf_p78-25] Mega Fun, "02/2000" (DE; 2000-01-05), page 78

[26] Neo Plus, "Marzec 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 41

[:File:NextGeneration_US_61.pdf_p92-27] Next Generation, "January 2000" (US; 1999-12-21), page 92

[:File:ODM_UK_05.pdf_p79-28] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "March 2000" (UK; 2000-02-10), page 79

[:File:ODCM_US_03.pdf_p94-29] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "January 2000" (US; 1999-12-05), page 94

[:File:Playbox_FR_01.pdf_p49-30] Playbox, "Décembre 2000" (FR; 2000-1x-xx), page 49

[:File:Playmag_FR_45.pdf_p98-31] Playmag, "Mars 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 98

[32] PSX Extreme, "03/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 40

[:File:ROD_ES_03.pdf_p46-33] Revista Oficial Dreamcast, "Marzo 2000" (ES; 2000-0x-xx), page 46

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2K Basketball games Published by Sega
	NBA 2K (1999) \| NBA 2K1 (2000) \| NBA 2K2 (2001)
	NBA 2K2 (2002) \| NBA 2K3 (2002) \| NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (2002)
	NBA 2K2 (2002) \| NBA 2K3 (2002) \| NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (2002) \| ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN College Hoops (2003) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN College Hoops 2K5 (2004)
2K Basketball related media
	NBA 2K Official Strategy Guide (1999) \| NBA 2K Perfect Guide (2000) \| NBA 2K3 Official Perfect Guide (2002) \| Prima's Official Strategy Guide: ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 Official Strategy Guide (2004)

NBA 2K

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Contents

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Artwork

Physical scans

External links

References