SpikeOut

Spikeout: Digital Battle Online is a 3D beat 'em up video game developed by Toshihiro Nagoshi, and released by Sega for their Model 3 Step 2.1 arcade system board in 1998.^[5] An update, Spikeout: Final Edition, was released in 1999.

Spikeout
Developer(s)	Amusement Vision
Publisher(s)	Sega
Director(s)	Toshihiro Nagoshi
Producer(s)	Toshihiro Nagoshi
Artist(s)	Mika Kojima
Composer(s)	Shunsuke Suzuki Hidenori Shoji
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release	JP: September 1998[1] NA: October 1998[2] UK: December 1998[3] JP: January 1999 (Final Ed)[4]
Genre(s)	Beat 'em up
Arcade system	Sega Model 3 Step 2.1 Sega NAOMI

This article is about the video game. For the unrelated volleyball tournament, see SpikeOut Tournament.

A follow-up, Slashout, which was a slash 'em up set in a medieval fantasy setting, was developed and released in 2000, also for arcades. A spinoff, Spikers Battle, adding a versus fighting element, was developed and released in 2001, again for arcades. Another follow-up, Spikeout: Battle Street, was developed by Dimps and released exclusively for the Xbox in 2005. A new port of Spikeout: Final Edition is included in the 2024 release of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.^[6]

The SpikeOut games bear a resemblance to Sega's earlier Streets of Rage series.^[7]

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed SpikeOut on their November 15, 1998 issue as being the third most-successful arcade game of the month.^[8]