When did Jet Grind Radio come out?

Jet Grind Radio was released on 30 October 2000 for Dreamcast.

Jet Grind Radio (2000) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Jet Grind Radio

The government is attempting to silence the kids of Tokyo, but with their Overdrive Magnetic-Motor Skating Shoes, the cops will have to catch 'em first. The Jet Grind Radio program keeps the kids unified and…

80 30 October 2000

What Jet Grind Radio is

Jet Grind Radio is an adventure game developed by Smilebit and released in 2000. It was published by Sega. It is available on Dreamcast only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

DJ Professor K broadcasts the Jet Set Radio pirate radio station to gangs of youths who roam Tokyo-to, skating and spraying graffiti. One gang, the GGs, competes for turf with the all-female Love Shockers in the shopping districts of Shibuya-Cho, the cyborg Noise Tanks in the Benten entertainment district, and the kaiju-loving Poison Jam in the Kogane dockyard. The authorities, led by Captain Onishima, pursue the gangs with riot police and military armaments. After the GGs defeat Poison Jam, Noise Tanks, and Love Shockers in turf wars, they each drop a piece of a mysterious vinyl record. Professor K says that the mysterious vinyl has the power to summon a demon. The GGs are joined by Combo…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Jet Grind Radio holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 92 votes.

What it launched against

Jet Grind Radio launched on 30 October 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Escape from Monkey Island. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer