User:St. Jimmy Jammy/Jet Set Radio (series)

Jet Set Radio (ジェットセットラジオ) is a series of video games developed by Smilebit and published by Sega. Three titles have been released, the last in 2003.

Games

 * Jet Set Radio, the first game, released for the Dreamcast in 2000.
 * Jet Set Radio Future, the sequel to the first game, released for the Xbox in 2002.
 * Jet Grind Radio, the Game Boy Advance version of the original game, released in 2003.
 * Jet Set Radio HD, a high-definition remake of the original game, released for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, iOS, Android and Microsoft Windows. On May 3, 2016, the game became backwards-compatible with the Xbox One, and later the Xbox Series X/S due to it being able to play Xbox One backwards-compatible games.

Legacy and sequel
Beat and Gum as well as stages from the series appear as playable characters in the game Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, and the former also appeared in Archie Comics' Sonic Universe issue 45, an adaptation of the game along with Sega Superstars Tennis and Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing as well as in the mobile game Sega Heroes.

The Jet Set Radio series has been requested to be added to the Xbox One, the Xbox Series X/S and the Nintendo Switch. As of January 2021, the series has not been ported to any of these platforms.

Kuju Entertainment presented Sega with a concept for a new Jet Set Radio game for the Nintendo Wii, but Sega was not interested in developing new games in the series.

In 2017, Dinosaur Games created a visual proof-of-concept after Sony expressed interest in their work at GDC 2017. This project, Jet Set Radio Evolution, was turned down by Sega for largely unstated reasons.

In mid-2020 Jet Set Radio lead designer Kazuki Hosokawa told USGamer that he and his team were "too old and experienced" to create a new Jet Set Radio game with the "same energy" as the original. While Hosokawa still admired the work he and his team did on the first game on the series, Sega's continued reluctance to green light a new Jet Set Radio project have made a sequel near impossible.