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Shenmue
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Game only: the disc in a protective holder, no case or manual. The photos are our own, taken from our stock of this game — look them over for condition, packaging and details. This is Disc 1 only; the other discs are not included. Discs are professionally resurfaced when they need it and tested before listing. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Snow is falling on Yokosuka when Ryo Hazuki walks into his family's dojo and watches his father die. It is 1986, the killer is a man named Lan Di, the prize he leaves with is a mysterious stone artifact called the dragon mirror, and the rest of Shenmue is Ryo's stubborn, methodical hunt for answers. Yu Suzuki, the Sega legend behind Hang-On, Out Run and Virtua Fighter, wanted to build something far longer and more personal than an arcade game, and with Sega AM2 he created what became the most expensive video game ever developed at the time, with an estimated $47 to $70 million budget that also covered early work on its sequel.
What makes Shenmue unforgettable is how completely it commits to the idea of a real place. Its streets, modeled on Yokosuka's Dobuita neighborhood, run on an in-game clock: shops open and close, buses keep to timetables, residents follow their own daily routines, and the weather was generated from Yokosuka's actual meteorological records for 1986. You can open drawers, spend your daily allowance on capsule toys, cassettes and raffle tickets, throw darts or play complete versions of Hang-On and Space Harrier at the local arcade, and later take a job at the harbor driving a forklift, with forklift races thrown in. Some players find the pace maddening; others find it the most immersive thing they have ever played. Both camps have a point.
When the investigation turns violent, Shenmue changes gears. Its free-roaming fights play like a cousin of Virtua Fighter, with moves you can practice on your own time to make them stronger, and its cinematic quick-time events, where you have a split second to hit the right button, are credited with pioneering a mechanic that action games leaned on for years afterward. Sega even coined a genre name for the whole package, FREE, short for Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment. More than 300 named characters give the town its texture, from Ryo's schoolfriend Nozomi to Master Chen at the harbor, and every one of them has somewhere to be.
Shenmue sold 1.2 million copies yet never recouped its cost, and that commercial heartbreak only deepened its legend. It gathered a fiercely loyal cult following, appears on many lists of the greatest games ever made, and inspired a crowdfunding campaign that finally produced Shenmue III in 2019. High-definition ports arrived in 2018, but the Dreamcast is the hardware Suzuki's team built this world for, and playing it there is the closest you can get to the shock of the new that hit players when it reached North America in 2000.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1999
- Publisher
- Sega
- Developer
- Sega AM2
- Genre
- RPG, Simulation, Beat 'em up, Adventure
- Players
- Single player
About the game
"He shall appear from a far Eastern land across the sea. A young man who has yet to know his potential. This potential is a power that can either destroy him, or realize his will. His courage shall determine his fate. The path he must traverse, fraught with adversity, I await whilst praying. For this destiny predetermined since ancient times... A pitch, black night unfolds with the morning star as its only light. And thus the saga, begins..." This first chapter of Shenmue kicks off Yu Suzuki's cinematic Dreamcast tour-de-force, an exploration-heavy adventure that has players immerse themselves in Yokosuka, Japan. Players slip into the role of a young martial artist named Ryo Hazuki, who is on the trail of his father's killer. On the way, players must talk with hundreds of characters, engage in martial arts battles, and marvel at the realistic depiction of the Japanese coastal town.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayShenmue on Dreamcast
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Dreamcast
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Dreamcast
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