Anne Lee @ApricotSushi from Chic-Pixel.com runs a Community Game-along each month of the year and June is Yakuza Studio month!
Join in by playing a game like those listed below and by using the hashtag #YakuzaStudioMonth on Twitter and Instagram
Be sure to visit Restera's Yakuza Community OT
The games I've listed are those in the Yakuza series, made by the Ryu ga Gotoku team or other Sega games made by key members before they worked on the Yakuza series (it's not an exhaustive list and if you have any related games you'd like to play or suggest, please join in!).
Note- I'm focusing on the localized games for the most part and their North American releases.
The main games & where you can play them-
Yakuza 0 PS4 (physical & digital)/PC
Yakuza PS2
Yakuza Kiwami PS4(physical & digital)/PC Note- this was available as a November 2018 PS+ title if you were subscribed.
Yakuza 2 PS2
Yakuza Kiwami 2 PS4(physical & digital)/PC
Yakuza 3 PS3 (physical only)/ PS4 (remaster, Japan only)
Yakuza 4 PS3 (physical & digital)/ PS4 (remaster, Japan only) Available on the U.S. PSNOW
Yakuza 5 PS3 (digital only in the West)/ PS4 (remaster, Japan only June 20th) Note- this was available as an August 2016 PS+ title if you were subscribed. Available on the U.S. PSNOW
Yakuza 6 PS4 (physical & digital)
Yakuza: Dead Souls PS3 (physical & digital)
More game from the studio-
Judgment PS4 (physical & digital) Available June 25th in the West
Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise PS4 (physical & digital)
Binary Domain PS3/ Xbox 360/ PC (physical & digital) Note- this was available as a November 2013 PS+ title if you were subscribed.
Unlocalized Yakuza games-
Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! PS3 (physical only)There's an extensive walkthrough at http://www.khhsubs.com/projectsryugagotokukenzan.html
Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! PS3/PS4 (physical & digital) There's an extensive walkthrough at http://www.khhsubs.com/projectsrggishin.html
Ryu ga Gotoku 1&2 HD PS3/Wii U (physical & digital)
Kurohyou: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsou PSP (physical & digital)
Kurohyou 2: Ryu ga Gotoku Ashura Hen PSP (physical & digital)
Super Monkey Ball, the other series they've mainly worked on the last 18 years-
Super Monkey Ball Gamecube
Super Monkey Ball 2 Gamecube
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe PS2/Xbox
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Wii
Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll Wii
Super Monkey Ball Jr GBA (forgot to include a picture)
Super Monkey Ball: Touch & Roll DS
Super Monkey Ball 3D 3DS (physical & digital)
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz Vita (physical & digital)
Super Monkey Ball: Sakura Edition ios/Android
Games key developers of the Yakuza series worked-
Daytona USA Saturn/ PS3 (PSN/ Xbox 360 (XBLA)
F-Zero GX Gamecube -F-Zero AX, the arcade game, is unlockable with a cheat device or emulator
Jet Set Radio Dreamcast/ PS3/ PC/ Vita/ Xbox 360 (Xbox One backward compatible)
Jet Set Radio Future Xbox
Gun Valkyrie Xbox
Panzer Dragoon Saturn (Also unlockable in Panzer Dragoon Orta) A bit of a stretch, more Yakuza devs worked on later games in the series than this one. Included for completions sake.
Panzer Dragoon 2: Zwei Saturn
Panzer Dragoon Saga Saturn
Panzer Dragoon Orta Xbox (Xbox One backward compatible)
Addendum-
Spikeout: Battle Street Xbox
Not listed are arcade games that never received console ports-
Daytona USA 2
Scud Race
Spikeout
Slashout
Planet Harriers
Some history-
Sega's Amusement Vision division was merged with other divisions (such as Smilebit) during a restructuring and eventually became Sega CS1.
https://segaretro.org/New_Entertainment_R&D_Dept.
Some of the Yakuza developers that link all the games-
Toshihiro Nagoshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihiro_Nagoshi https://segaretro.org/Toshihiro_Nagoshi
Masatoshi Kikuchi https://segaretro.org/Masayoshi_Kikuchi
Masayoshi Yokoyama https://segaretro.org/Masayoshi_Yokoyama
Hiroyuki Sakamoto https://segaretro.org/Hiroyuki_Sakamoto
Daisuke Sato https://segaretro.org/Daisuke_Sato
Jun Orihara https://segaretro.org/Jun_Orihara
Tadashi Okuda https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,442652/
Kazuki Hosokawa https://segaretro.org/Kazuki_Hosokawa
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