List of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure video games

Several video games based on Hirohiko Araki's manga and anime series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which began serialization in the weekly shōnen manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1987,^[1] have been released. The first video game, which used the series title, was a role-playing video game based on Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc in the series, and was released in March 1993 for the Super Famicom. On December 18, 1998, Capcom released a fighting game in arcades, which was also adapted from Stardust Crusaders. The game was titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.^[2] An updated version titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future was ported to both the PlayStation and Dreamcast on October 14, 1999,^[3] and in 2012, a high-definition version was released for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade on August 21 and August 22, respectively.^[4] A third Capcom game based on JoJo's fifth story arc, Golden Wind, titled GioGio's Bizarre Adventure, was released for the PlayStation 2 on July 25, 2002, combining the arcade game's fighting gameplay with cel-shaded 3D environments.^[5] On October 26, 2006, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, which was based on the eponymous first arc of the series, was released for the PlayStation 2.^[6] The game was developed by Anchor Inc. and published by Bandai.^[7]

At a July 5, 2012 press conference celebrating the series's 25th anniversary, Araki announced JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle for the PlayStation 3, produced by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Games.^[8] Released on August 29, 2013, the game is a 2D fighting game that takes inspiration from Capcom's arcade titles. The same developer and publisher would later release JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, an arena-based fighting game that itself takes mechanics from All Star Battle, on December 17, 2015.^[9] In 2017, a mobile game was released in Japan to commemorate JoJo's 30th anniversary. The game featured free manga panels available in black-and-white and in color, and included a virtual pet game starring Iggy, a Boston Terrier who serves as one of the main characters of Stardust Crusaders.^[10] In the summer of 2019, a battle royale arcade game titled JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Last Survivor was scheduled to be released,^[11] but it was not released in arcades until December 18, 2019.^[12]

Numerous JoJo characters have appeared in Shōnen Jump crossover games. Before the first JoJo game was released, Bandai released a crossover adventure game titled Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden on February 15, 1989.^[13] Joseph Joestar, the protagonist of the second arc, Battle Tendency, is one of the playable characters.^[14] Its sequel, Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin, released on December 2, 1991,^[15] features Jotaro Kujo, the protagonist of Stardust Crusaders, as a playable character.^[16] Both games were available on the Famicom. Characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure were also featured in the 2005 Nintendo DS Weekly Shōnen Jump crossover game Jump Super Stars and its sequel Jump Ultimate Stars, including Jotaro and series antagonist Dio Brando as playable characters.^[17] In 2014, as the JoJo anime was being popularized, Bandai added Jonathan and Joseph Joestar to the roster of J-Stars Victory Vs. In 2019, the Stardust Crusaders versions of Jotaro and Dio were announced to be added to the roster of playable characters in Jump Force.^[18][19]