Seventeen video games based on Hirohiko Araki's manga and anime series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which began serialization in the weekly manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1987, have been released. The first game, which was released on March 5, 1993, and uses the series' title, is a role-playing video game released for the Super Famicom. It is based on the third part in the series, Stardust Crusaders. On December 18, 1998, Capcom released a fighting game in arcades, which was also adapted from Stardust Crusaders. The game was titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. In 1999, an updated version titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future was ported to the PlayStation on October 14 and the Dreamcast on November 25, and in 2012, a high-definition version was released for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade on August 21 and August 22, respectively.
Another Capcom game, titled GioGio's Bizarre Adventure, based on JoJos fifth story arc, Golden Wind, was released for the PlayStation 2 on July 25, 2002, and used 3D environments. On October 26, 2006, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, which was based on the eponymous first arc of the series, was released for the PlayStation 2. The game was developed by Anchor Inc. and published by Bandai. At a July 5, 2012 press conference celebrating the series's 25th anniversary, Araki announced JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle for the PlayStation 3, developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Games. Released on August 29, 2013, All Star Battle is a fighting game in which the cast is categorized by "Battle Styles", which determine what moves the player can execute via the "style" button. The same developer and publisher would later release JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven in Japan on December 17, 2015. In 2017, a mobile game was released in Japan to commemorate JoJos 30th anniversary. The game featured free manga panels available in black-and-white and in color, and included a virtual pet game starring Iggy, a Boston Terrier who serves as one of the main characters of Stardust Crusaders. In the summer of 2019, a battle royale arcade game titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Last Survivor was scheduled to be released, but it was not released in arcades until December 18, 2019.
Numerous JoJo characters have appeared in Shōnen Jump crossover games. Before the first JoJo game was released, Bandai released an action role-playing game titled Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden on February 15, 1989. Its sequel, Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin, released on December 2, 1991, features Jotaro Kujo as a playable character. Both games were available on the Famicom. Characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure were also featured in the 2005 Nintendo DS Weekly Shōnen Jump crossover game Jump Super Stars and its sequel Jump Ultimate Stars, including Jotaro and Dio as playable characters. Jonathan and Joseph Joestar were playable characters in J-Stars Victory Vs. which released on March 19, 2014, for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. In 2019, the Stardust Crusaders versions of Jotaro and Dio were announced to be added to the roster of playable characters in Jump Force.
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External links JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Capcom JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future by Capcom JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood by Bandai JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle by Bandai