One of only six games released on Capcom's CPS3 system hardware.
There are three diffrent versions of the arcade version of this game. The first game, an advance game with an expanded rouster, and an arcade version of the PlayStation version with minigames.
The arcade version, in America, was originally called Jojo's Venture, because neither the anime nor manga was translated in english at the time. It wasn't untill the PlayStation and Sega Saturn version when they used the full name of the game.
The storyline of the game is based loosely on the Stardust Crusaders storyline (which, at the time, was named Heritage For The Future). If you play as Jotaru Kujo, then the storyline of the game follows that of the manga for the most part (with the exception of Jotaru facing the characters other members of the Stardust Crusaders faced). Anybody else will have a slight change of story (some characters who die do not die if you choose them, others die just at the end).