Shenmue is a Japanese video game of Yu Suzuki for the Dreamcast and Xbox Spielkonsolen. The history consists of altogether 16 chapters, which should be processed in three separate plays. The parts appeared so far belong to most expensive video game productions of all times.

The moreover one the name Shenmue represents a tree, which emerges in the process of history.

The idea to the play principle

Yu Suzuki wanted to create a play, in which the player can participate interactively in the event and affect it. The whole should remain as close at the reality as possible. Also times of day should take substantial influence at the behavior of the characters and their surrounding field. Its life's work, how it called it, should become a milestone of video game history.

The name

1994: Yu Suzuki wanted to develop a kind "Virtua Fighter RPG ". As a main character Akira, a fighter from its play row was intended "Virtua Fighter ". It called the whole "Akira's Quest ". Fast one decided to change however both for the names of the main character and that of the play: "Shenmue "was born.

1998: The development had progressed already far, from this cause a press conference had been called up, with that the play, which more near should be brought to journalists. The whole was called now however "Project Berkley ".

1999: Already again a change of name was made: "Shenmue Chapter I: Yokosuka "should be called now the first part of this play row. This name was not any longer changed.

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