Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game is a sports video game developed and published by Sega. The game was originally released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on July 24, 2019. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the game was not released outside of Japan and East Asia until June 2021, when it also released for Windows, Stadia, and Xbox One. The game features 80 national teams and 18 events.

Not to be confused with Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game
Developer(s)	Sega[a]
Publisher(s)	Sega
Director(s)	Hitoshi Furukubo
Producer(s)	Nobuya Ohashi
Designer(s)	Shingo Kawakami Katsuyuki Shigihara Masashi Jinbo
Programmer(s)	Motoyoshi Sato
Artist(s)	Takayuki Iwasaki
Composer(s)	Kenichi Tokoi Jun Senoue Tomonori Sawada
Engine	Hedgehog Engine 2
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 Windows Stadia Xbox One
Release	Nintendo Switch, PS4 JP/AS: July 24, 2019 WW: June 22, 2021 Windows, Xbox One, Stadia WW: June 22, 2021
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Yuke's provided developmental assistance.^[1] The game is the penultimate Olympic video game to be released by Sega, as Sega's license to produce games based on the Olympic Games was discontinued after the release of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 due to the International Olympic Committee pivoting to mobile games produced by nWay for the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Events

The following events are in the game: four additional sports were added to the game as updates.^[3]

Athletics Track 100 metres 110 metres hurdles 4 × 100 metres relay§ Field Long jump Hammer throw Aquatics 100 m freestyle swimming 200 m Medley swimming

Other Baseball Basketball Beach volleyball Boxing Cycling, BMX racing Football Judo§ Rugby sevens§ Sport climbing§ Table tennis (singles and doubles) Tennis (singles and doubles)

^§ : Later added as downloadable content.

The game features 80 playable nations, making it the most playable nations that have ever been in an Olympics video game.

Playable nations

•  Algeria
•  Angola
•  Argentina
•  Australia
•  Austria
•  Bahamas
•  Belgium
•  Bolivia
•  Brazil
•  Bulgaria
•  Canada
•  Chile
•  China
•  Colombia
•  Costa Rica
•  Croatia
•  Cuba
•  Czech Republic
•  Denmark
•  Ecuador
•  Egypt
•  Ethiopia
•  Fiji
•  Finland
•  France
•  The Gambia
•  Great Britain
•  Germany
•  Ghana
•  Greece
•  Guinea
•  Honduras
•  Hong Kong
•  Hungary
•  Indonesia
•  India
•  Iran
•  Ireland
•  Israel
•  Italy
•  Ivory Coast
•  Jamaica
•  Japan
•  Kenya
•  Malaysia
•  Mexico
•  Morocco
•  Netherlands
•  New Zealand
•  Nigeria
•  Norway
•  Pakistan
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Philippines
•  Poland
•  Portugal
•  Romania
•  ROC
•  Saudi Arabia
•  Senegal
•  Singapore
•  South Africa
•  Slovakia
•  Slovenia
•  South Korea
•  Spain
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Thailand
•  Togo
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  Tunisia
•  Turkey
•  United Arab Emirates
•  Ukraine
•  Uruguay
•  United States
•  Uzbekistan

Top Athletes

In addition to allowing players to compete against fictional athletes, the game also allows players to compete against licensed players, referred to as "top athletes", in training mode. The top athletes serve as the hardest difficulty for each event, with the game recording, and rewarding players based on, how many times they have beaten a top athlete. There are 20 top athletes, one for each event, representing 17 national teams.

• 100 metres - Lloyd Lawrence  Jamaica
• 110 metres hurdles - Amelia Ryan  Australia
• Hammer Throw - Karolina Przybylska  Poland
• Long Jump - Bandile Dlamini  South Africa
• BMX - Salomé Patiño  Colombia
• 4x100 metres relay - Armandine Goethals  Belgium
• 100 metres freestyle - Bastien Perec  France
• 200 metres individual medley - Eva Mills  Australia
• Table tennis (singles) - Qi Xintong  China
• Table tennis (doubles) - Zhou Qiyun  China
• Tennis (singles) - Mathias Widmer  Switzerland
• Tennis (doubles) - Alicia Roca  Spain
• Boxing - Craig Whitwell  Great Britain
• Judo - Gezaburo Miyamoto  Japan
• Baseball - Camilo Prats  Cuba
• Basketball - Theresa Mosley  United States
• Football - Osvaldo Moura Jr.  Brazil
• Beach volleyball - Kathy Adams  United States
• Rugby sevens - Samu Boseiwaqa  Fiji
• Sport climbing - Ljudmila Oblak  Slovenia

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	PC: 56/100[4] PS4: 71/100[5] XONE: 66/100[6] NS: 70/100[7]

Review scores

Publication	Score
Destructoid	5/10[8]
Push Square	[9]

Reception

The Switch version received 80% from Digitally Downloaded, who said that "one of the areas that Tokyo 2020 immediately stands out is that it has a good range of different sports represented, and they all play differently." They went on to praise the presentation and the customisation, adding that "as a single player game it's a little lonely and limited."^[10]

Notes

1. Additional work by Yuke's.