Top Skater

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Top Skater

System(s): Sega Model 2

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega AM3^[1], Sega AM4 (cabinet)

Genre: Sports

Number of players: 1

Release

Date

RRP

Code

JP

1997-05^[2]

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US

1997

$?

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Top Skater (トップスケーター) is an arcade skateboarding game developed by Sega AM3 for Sega Model 2 hardware. Its spiritual successor, art-wise and music-wise, was Crazy Taxi, which was also directed by Kenji Kanno; other spiritual successors of the game include Air Trix and Ollie King.

Alan J., the DJ of Top Skater, would later provide his voice again for another Sega arcade game, F355 Challenge.

Production credits

chief programmer: Kenji Tohma
programmers: Mitsuyoshi Ono, Bungo Ishida, Hiroyuki Kataoka, Jin-ichiro Okuda
motion control adviser: Seiji Fujiwara
chief graphic designer: Mitsuhiko Kakita
graphic designers: Noriko Omizo, Takeo Iwase, Atsushi Saito, Kenji Shimizu, Minori Hisamatsu, Kenji Nomura, Masaki Takahashi
character designer: Yoshitsugu Sato
mechanical supervisor: Masao Yoshimoto
chief mechanical engineer: Masayuki Damayan
mechanical engineers: Masayoshi Yamada, Tomoya Takasugi, Makoto Saitoh, Yuji Hatanaka
electrical engineer: Junta Asano
cabinet design supervisor: Yasunobu Shinzato
cabinet designers: Keisuke Tsukahara, Mayumi Kitano
sound supervisor: Saeko Segawa
english support: David Leytze
concept: Yuji Sugimori, Shinichi Fujii
public relations: Shunsuke Kato
assistant director: Yoshitaka Maeyama
director: Kenji Kanno
producer: Hisao Oguchi
music: Pennywise
D.J.: Alan . J
character's shoes:
- Ash: SK8-Hi/Vans
- Keith: Xplora/A.D. one
- Ken-ta: One Gambit/Air Walk
- J: Low-Cut/Etnies
- Cookie: Clarion/és
- Jill: Blinder/Reef
special thanks to: Coca-Cola, Vans, A.D. One, Airwalk, etnies America, éS Footwear, Reef Brazil, Warp Magazine Japan, Epitaph, Overheat Communications, Sega Digital Studio, Jack Rabbit Co., Ltd., Tatsutoshi Narita, Rika Terajima, &, of course, you
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