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LOST IN TRANSLATION

JET SET RADIO

 JPN ROW Japan ROW

JET SET RADIO Departing: 2000

FORMAT Dreamcast ■

DEVELOPER Smilebit ■

YEAR 2000 ■

ORIGIN Japan ■

LOCALISED FOR Rest Of World ■

REASONS Commercial, Difficulty ■

This Dreamcast cult favourite is well known worldwide – What isn’t so well known is that the game was heavily revised in the four months between its Japanese and American releases, and received further changes for Europe, in an attempt to make the decidedly Japanese game more appealing.

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