Dead or Alive

Selectable Protagonists Fighting Games 

Type of the game: [Coin-Op] Arcade Video Game
Dead or Alive © 1996 Tecmo.

Arguably one of the best fighting games on the Sega Model 2 hardware, Dead or Alive features a solid 3-D fighting engine with smooth character models and impressive character physics (not to mention the attention to detail given to the female characters).

Sega Model 2A hardware

Main CPU : i960KB (@ 25 Mhz), 68000 (@ 12 Mhz), (2x) ADSP21062 (@ 40 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SCSP (@ 40 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 496 x 384 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 8192

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 4

Another version runs on the Sega Model 2B hardware.

Released in November 1996.

The game includes Ryu Hayabusa, from "Ninja Ryukenden".

Steve O'Donnell holds the official record for the fastest completion of this game with a time of 1:58.380 on April 19, 1997.

Pony Canyon released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Dead Or Alive - PCCB-00228) on 21/11/1996.
An other soundtrack album was released by Pony Canyon for the Playstation version of the game (Dead Or Alive for PlayStation - PCCB-00314) on 20/05/1998.

The US version is slightly different
* 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen added.

* Replay Rewind : Pressing Hold+Kick during the KO sequence will allow you to rewind the replay sequence with the Punch button.This may only be done once per game.

1. Dead or Alive (1996)
2. Dead or Alive ++ (1998)
3. Dead or Alive 2 (1999)
4. Dead or Alive 2 Millennium (2000)
5. Dead or Alive 3 (2001, Microsoft XBOX)
6. Dead or Alive 4 (2005, Microsoft XBOX 360)

Chief Planner : Katsunori Ehara
Planner : Sane, Joe Toyoda, Hideki Ohta
Character's Story : Asamin
Chief Programmer : T. Kawaguchi
Programmer : Hiroaki D Ozawa, T. Sawatari, Eigo Miyazaki, Yume Maboroshi, Mitsuo
Chief Motion Designer : Great Egawa
Motion Designer : Akutoh, H. Matsui, Makoto Isomine, Guerilla Saitoh, Akira Izumi, Navy, Kiyohiko Yamashita, Kei, Sayaka Ishiyama
Animation Data : N. Kazama, T. Mishima, Masanori Sato, T. Hiraoka, Leo
Chief Graphic Manager : Hideyuki Kato
Character Design & Modelling : Shinichiro Komori
Super Dotter : Yoshiki Horiuchi
Character Texture : D. Ohta
Stage Designer : Yusuke Iida, Nobuyuki Suzuki
Stage Texture : Hideki Nimi
Sound Composer : H. Suzuki
Sound Effect : H. Takahashi, Yutaka Fujishima
Motion Actor : Japan Action Club
Motion Capture Data by : Visual Science Laboratory Inc.

* Character's Voice (Aoni Pro) :
Kasumi : Sakura Tange
Jann-Lee : Toshio Furukawa
Lei-Fang : Yumi Touma
Tina : Mami Koyama
Bayman : Hisao Egawa
Zack : Bin Shimada
Hayabusa : Hideyuki Hori
Gen-Fu : Takeshi Aono
Haddu : Kouji Yada
Systemm Voice : Miyako Endo

Gamest art contest : Tamon, Emirin, Yasukazu Tome, Seiichiro Yano
Producer & Director : Tomonobu Itagaki
Executive Producer : Max Naka

Consoles:

Sega Saturn (1997)
Sony PlayStation (1998)
Microsoft XBOX (2004, "Dead or Alive Ultimate")

Game's ROM.
Game's screenshots.