Shenmue, Yu Suzuki’s wildly ambitious 1999 Sega Dreamcast game about one young man’s search for justice (and capsule toys). Responding to the accolade in a statement, Suzuki said ...

Half-Life 2, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, etc. But according to a public vote carried out by the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), the honor goes to the 1999 Dreamcast classic Shenmue.

Deliverance 2, which released two months ago. They're not even done patching it yet. This is, I think, possibly even more absurd than calling Shenmue the medium-defining benchmark for videogames ...

Dreamcast title, Shenmue, was unveiled by Bafta as the public's most influential game ahead of the 21st BAFTA Games Awards ...

The 1999 action game "Shenmue" was on Thursday named the most ... the first two defined the brief history of the Dreamcast console, the first so-called sixth-generation console, released by ...

Shenmue has been named BAFTA's most influential video game of all time, beating Super Mario Bros., Minecraft, and Grand Theft Auto.

Conceived as a multi-part epic, it was a commercial failure, and though Shenmue 2 came out in 2001, it would be 18 years before Suzuki got to continue his story in the crowd-funded Shenmue 3.