SpikeOut

Spikeout: Digital Battle Online is a 3D beat 'em up video game developed by Toshihiro Nagoshi, and released by Sega for their Model 3 Step 2.1 arcade system board in 1998.^[1] An update, Spikeout: Final Edition, was released in 1999.

Spikeout
Developer(s)	Amusement Vision
Publisher(s)	Sega
Director(s)	Toshihiro Nagoshi
Producer(s)	Toshihiro Nagoshi
Artist(s)	Mika Kojima
Composer(s)	Shunsuke Suzuki Hidenori Shoji
Platform(s)	Arcade (Sega Model 3 Step 2.1) Sega NAOMI (Spikers Battle, Slashout) Xbox (Battle Street)
Genre(s)	Beat 'em up

This article is about the video game. For the unrelated volleyball tournament, see SpikeOut Tournament.

A follow-up, Slashout, which was a slash 'em up set in a medieval fantasy setting, was developed and released in 2000, also for arcades. A spinoff, Spikers Battle, adding a versus fighting element, was developed and released in 2001, again for arcades. Another follow-up, Spikeout: Battle Street, was developed by Dimps and released exclusively for the Xbox in 2005. A new port of the first game is about to be featured in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and PC, alongside a new port of Sega Bass Fishing.

The SpikeOut games bear a resemblance to Sega's earlier Streets of Rage series.^[2]

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed SpikeOut on their November 15, 1998 issue as being the third most-successful arcade game of the month.^[3]

References

1. "Sega Model 3 Step 2.1 Hardware (Sega)". System 16. 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
2. "Google Translate". Translate.google.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
3. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - TVゲーム機ーソフトウェア (Video Game Software)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 576. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 November 1998. p. 21.

External links

• SegaRetro.org - SpikeOut