The Garage (ガレージ Garēji?) is the hideout and base of operations of the GG's in Jet Set Radio. The garage serves as the main menu for the game, giving access to several different options and modes. It is located in the central backstreets of Shibuya-cho.[1]
Official descriptions[]
Jet Set Radio Perfect Guide[]
- JP: ここはプレイヤーチーム ”GGのたまり場だ。いわゆる「モードセレクト」というわけだな。アナログ方向キーか方向ボタンでプレイするモードを選択し、ボタンで決定してくれ。オッケー？ それじやあ、順番に見ていこうか。[2]
- EN: This is the hangout for the player team GG. It's called "Mode Select". Select the mode you want to play with the analog directional keys or directional buttons, and confirm with the button. Ok? Well then, let's take a look at them one by one.[note 1]
Jet Grind Radio: Sybex's Official Strategies & Secrets[]
- You'll start off at the GGs Garage, the group's home base. Here you can access the game's Internet connection, game options, BGM mode (where you can listen to the game's background music), the Create Graffiti area, and the Stage Select screen. Each one of these is important to both making it through the game and to getting the most out of the game. You'll also have access to other options over the course of the game.[3]
Jet Grind Radio IGN Guide[]
- The Garage is your gang HQ. In the Garage you can create your own tags, connect to the internet, pick tracks from the radio, save your game and select the hood you want to go to and bomb.[4]
Overview[]
In Jet Set Radio, the garage is a small warehouse-like building. True to its name, the garage has a car parked inside, a blue Pinto residing in the vehicle bay with spray cans next to it. According to the manuals for the game, the garage is said to be located in the backstreets of central Shibuya-cho, and is the coolest place in Tokyo-to.[1] The garage is decorated with large speakers, a pinball machine that features DJ Professor K, some furniture and the GG's signature graffiti on the walls and floor.
Story[]
The most prominence the garage has throughout the story is when characters show up to the hideout to challenge the GG's to see if they are cool enough to hang with the gang. If the player decides to take the Benten-cho route after completing Shibuya GG, the garage will be filled with Poison Jam's frogs, who eventually leave after the player completes the Kogane-cho missions of chapter 1. However, if the player tackles Kogane-cho instead first, the it is revealed that the Noise Tanks stopped by the GG's garage to kidnap Pots. Besides these two instances, the garage does not have any other major elements occur in it during the rest of the game.
Music[]
- Hideki Naganuma - "Humming the Bassline"
- Note: Only song to play in the garage.
Gallery[]
Options[]
Characters[]
Poses[]
Other[]
GBA[]
Trivia[]
- In this game, the garage lacked a conventional door. It is likely that the GG's get in and out opening the garage door where the vehicle bay is or using the one large window it has.
- The pinball machine in the garage has a flipped and reversed texture. The flippers are at the top of the machine rather then the bottom, and if turned around the score would read 0001 rather then 1000.
- Also on the pinball machine is a piece of artwork of Beat that was featured in the magazine, Video Games.[5]
- In real life, Udagawachō is a neighborhood of Shibuya in its central district, and is known for being a safe haven of rebels and graffiti artists due to its prolific backstreets, as well as a site for underground music stores and parties.
- In both games, the secret characters (with the exception of Pots in JSR) do not physically appear, rival gangs in Jet Set Radio are represented via their logos on the wall, while Goji has his on a trash can. In Jet Set Radio Future, there is no equivalent to this.
- For the console/PC version of Jet Set Radio the character select screen goes in this following order: Beat → Pots → Mew/Bis → Slate/Soda → Poison Jam → Noise Tank → Love Shocker → Gum → Piranha/Sugar → Garam → Yo-Yo → Goji → Corn/Tab → Cube and then Combo. However in the original Japanese release the character select screen went in this order instead: Beat → Bis → Soda → Poison Jam → Noise Tank → Love Shocker → Gum → Garam → Yo-Yo → Sugar → Corn → Cube and then Combo. Due to the addition of Pots and Goji, the select screen had to be altered.[6]
- In the GBA version of the game the character select screen goes as follows: Beat → Piranha/Sugar → Corn/Tab → Cube → Combo → Mew/Bis → Slate/Soda → Gum → Yo-Yo → Garam → DJ Professor K.
- Despite not being playable in the GBA version, Goji's oil drum still makes an appearance in the garage along with Pots' kennel.
Notes[]
- ↑ Various translators used.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jet Grind Radio manual, page 4.
- ↑ The Garage in the Jet Set Radio Perfect Guide (JP).
- ↑ Jet Grind Radio: Sybex's Official Strategies & Secrets, page viii.
- ↑ Jet Grind Radio IGN Guide The Garage page.
- ↑ "Video Games – Das Magazin von Spielern für Spieler!", Ausgabe 8/2000, August 2000 page 41 via the Internet Archive.
- ↑ Fight or Flight - Jet Set Radio (Japanese Version) Pt. 18. The character select screen can be viewed in this video.
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