Jet Set Radio

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Jet Set Radio (originally released in North America as Jet Grind Radio) is a 2000 action-platform video game developed by Smilebit and published by Sega for the Dreamcast. The player controls a member of the GG's, a youth gang that uses inline skates to traverse Tokyo while spraying graffiti, challenging rival gangs, and evading authorities. Development was headed by director Masayoshi Kikuchi, with art by Ryuta Ueda. The team drew influence from late 1990s Japanese pop culture, such as the rhythm game PaRappa the Rapper, the anti-establishment themes of the 1999 film Fight Club, and elements of 1980s American hip hop culture such as graffiti. The environments were based on the Tokyo districts Shibuya and Shinjuku, with graffiti designed by artists including Eric Haze, who also designed the logo. Jet Set Radio was the first game to use a cel-shaded art style, developed in response to the team's disappointment with the abundance of sci-fi and fantasy Sega games. Upon its release, Jet Set...

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