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Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is a music video game by Konami and is the eighth release in the main Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) series. It was released on December 25, 2002 for Japanese arcades, on October 9, 2003 for the Japanese PlayStation 2, and on September 21, 2004 for the North American PlayStation 2. This game is the ninth release in North America, but despite having the same name as its Japanese counterpart, its gameplay and soundtrack is significantly different[1] and won the Video Music Awards in 2005 on MTV for Best Video Game Soundtrack. While the PlayStation 2 version came out in North America, the arcade version was exclusive to Japan. Despite this, the arcade version was exported to many arcades in the USA (most of them being bootlegged). Dance Dance Revolution Extreme was the last game in the DDR arcade franchise for four years until Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova in 2006. The arcade release of the game contains one of the largest soundtracks of any DDR game, featuring 240 songs, as well as music from other Bemani music titles. Konami issued an in-game thank you to the fans of Dance Dance Revolution and announced a rejuvenation of the entire series, but did not go into details. Konami's announcement led people to believe that DDR Extreme might be the final DDR release or that the series might be on hiatus or rebooted in the same manner as Beatmania and Beatmania IIDX.
The hottest revolution and bestselling video game in the music game category explodes onto the dance floor with Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA2, the follow-up to 2006's biggest and best DDR game to date! Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA2 will deliver a dance party extravaganza with its fun interactive gameplay, incredible song selection and innovative new game modes.
Dance Dance Revolution (ダンスダンスレボリューション Dansu Dansu Reboryūshon?), abbreviated DDR and also known as Dancing Stage in earlier games in Europe and Australasia, and some other games in Japan, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games. Players stand on a "dance platform" or stage and hit colored arrows laid out in a cross with their feet to musical and visual cues. Players are judged by how well they time their dance to the patterns presented to them and are allowed to choose more music to play to if they receive a passing score. Dance Dance Revolution has been given much critical acclaim for its originality and stamina in the video game market. There have been dozens of arcade-based releases across several countries and hundreds of home video game console releases, promoting a music library of original songs produced by Konami's in-house artists and an eclectic set of licensed music from many different genres. The DDR series has inspired similar games such as Pump It Up by Andamiro and In the Groove by Roxor
The hottest revolution and bestselling video game in the music game category returns to its arcade roots with Dance Dance Revolution Supernova, the first arcade version to be released in North America in 6 years. Dance Dance Revolution Supernova uses a completely new hardware engine and is the largest game in the series. Players will have access to over 300 songs from different musical genres and 2000+ dance step patterns. Dance Dance Revolution Supernova is a brand new evolution in the DDR series and expands on every aspect of what made the original series innovative, fun and addictive.
The dance floor kicks into overdrive with DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution. It is the latest installment of the highly anticipated DDR series and takes the revolution to the masses! Players can customize their own dance steps and workout in an innovative Exercise Mode. DDR is packed with a smash-hit lineup of all-new exclusive songs, licensed music and dance hits. There are cool contemporary game modes and brand new graphical interfaces featuring music videos that will keep everybody movin' and groovin' to the pulsating beats. DDR Max 2 also includes links to previous games for special features.
beatmania 5thMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the fifth numbered game in the beatmania series (but 6th beatmania arcade game) and is part of the BEMANI franchise. The game is played with a controller with one turn table and 5 keys, three white and two black. On the screen you will see bars moving from the top to bottom in columns representing each of the keys and the turntable. When the bars reach the judgement line it is time to scratch. beatmania 5thMIX removed the combo count added in 3rdMIX, and restricted the flashing great judgement to EXPERT mode, both of these changes are reverted in the next entry in the series. Song selection has been reworked and are now shown in a list with difficulty levels shown to the left of the song name. For the first time in the series a harder version of a chart is added. Only 4 songs feature them and the can only be played on stage 2 in Hard mode. The Modifiers SUDDEN and HI-SPEED were added. The song list has 19 songs returning from 4thMIX, 7 Dancemania licenses and 18 new songs. The total track list contains 34 songs.
Pop'n music 3 is a rhythm game. It is the 3rd game in the Pop'n Music series and a part of Konami's BEMANI Franchise. The game is played on a controller with 9 large coloured buttons, each button has a lane representation on the screen, along each lane similarly coloured icons (called pop-kun) move down the screen, when they reach the judgement line the player must press the corresponding button with correct timing. pop'n music 3 introduces the Hyper mode, a mode where you play a course of 3 courses in they Hyper difficulty. The game has 24 songs returning from earlier entries in the series and 29 new songs, for a total of 53 songs.
GuitarFreaks is a music video game series produced by Konami. It is a rhythm game where the player uses a controller to simulate the playing of an electric guitar. The game consists of music predominantly from the rock music, rock and roll and J-pop genres. It is considered one of the most influential video games of all time, for having laid the foundations for popular guitar-based rhythm games, such as the Guitar Hero series. Working Designs attempted to bring Guitar Freaks PlayStation 2 games in the U.S., but patent problems with the guitar controller prevented the project from moving forward. The game is now in its nineteenth version, GuitarFreaks V8, which was released in March 28, 2011. It was speculated to be the final release of GuitarFreaks V. A spin-off series, GuitarFreaks XG was released in Japanese arcades on March 10, 2010,[4] which added two more buttons to the fret bar. A sequel, GuitarFreaks XG2, was released on March 9, 2011. Another sequel, GuitarFreaks XG3, was released on Feb. 23, 2012.
beatmania clubMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the eighth game in the beatmania series and is part of the BEMANI franchise. The game is played with a controller with one turn table and 5 keys, three white and two black. On the screen you will see bars moving from the top to bottom in columns representing each of the keys and the turntable. When the bars reach the judgement line it is time to scratch. The songs from completeMIX 2 were downgraded in difficulty section, HARD charts became NORMAL charts and ANOTHER charts became HARD charts. No changes was made to the charts themselves. The new ANOTHER charts added to the game were not ranked, even though completeMIX 2 started ranking ANOTHER charts. beatmania clubMIX is a release where the focus is to have as much licensed club songs as possible. Therefore, only 10 Konami made songs from beatmania completeMIX 2 return in the game, with 7 new original songs made for the game. The remaining 14 songs are all licensed songs. Total amount of songs in the game is 31.
beatmania 4thMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the fourth numbered game in the beatmania series (but 5th beatmania arcade game) and is part of the BEMANI franchise. The game is played with a controller with one turn table and 5 keys, three white and two black. On the screen you will see bars moving from the top to bottom in columns representing each of the keys and the turntable. When the bars reach the judgement line it is time to scratch. beatmania 4thMIX is the first big redesign of the series, it features a brand new interface. Difficulty is now on a scale from 1 to 7. All songs have been given a single and double mode chart. Song list shows not only genre and title, but artist as well. Although all previous beatmania songs have been removed. a brand-new set of 23 songs was added as a replacement. It is the first time that licensed songs makes an appearance in the series, as well as crossovers from other BEMANI games.
Second entry in the Gitadora series, the sequal to the Guitarfreaks and Drummania series.
pop'n music Tune Street is a rhythm game. It is the 19th game in the Pop'n Music series and a part of Konami's BEMANI Franchise. The game is played on a controller with 9 large coloured buttons, each button has a lane representation on the screen, along each lane similarly coloured icons (called pop-kun) move down the screen, when they reach the judgement line the player must press the corresponding button with correct timing. pop'n music Tune Street was the first game in the series available in HD in the new optional wide screen cabinet. The HD version allows for additional information about your play to be displayed on the side of the play field. It is also the first game to offer pop'n music cards, collectable trading cards featuring the pop'n music characters. pop'n music Tune Street features a massive song list, with 595 songs returning from previous entries, 53 license songs from TV and Anime, 108 songs from home versions of the series, 75 downloadable songs from the ee'MALL system as well as 72 brand new songs totalling a song list of 903 songs.
The 26th mainline arcade release of Konami's 9-button rhythm game series pop'n music. The theme of this iteration is "Japanese Style Detective Novel"
The 27th main installment of the Pop'n Music series, featuring a research laboratory theme.
The tenth game in the Gitadora series, a spinoff series of the GuitarFreaks and DrumMania franchises.
Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000 is the second special one-player version of the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released as an arcade game by Konami on December 15, 1999. Although only officially released in Japan, units exist worldwide. DDR Solo 2000 features 36 songs, 20 of which are new to Dance Dance Revolution.
Dance Dance Revolution X3 is a music video game, and a part of the Dance Dance Revolution series. The arcade version of DDR X3 was revealed by Konami on June 2, 2011. The sequel to Dance Dance Revolution X2, X3 began public beta testing on June 8, 2011. Promotional information for the game revealed the full name for the game, called Dance Dance Revolution X3 VS 2ndMix due to the new "2ndMix" mode in the game. It was released in Japan on November 16, 2011 for dedicated cabinets and November 30, 2011 for upgrade kits, and December 16, 2011 in Asia.
DanceDanceRevolution World is the 18th installment of the DanceDanceRevolution series.
The 30th iteration of konami's beatmania IIDX series.
Beatmania 3rdMix is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the third game in the beatmania series and is part of the BEMANI franchise ( which it was named after: BEatMANIa ). It is the only beatmania arcade to have an official European release. The game is played with a controller with one turn table and 5 keys, three white and two black. On the screen you will see bars moving from the top to bottom in columns representing each of the keys and the turntable. When the bars reach the judgement line it is time to scratch. Beatmania 3rdMix is the first game in the series to introduce combo count, meaning that your current combo is shown while playing and a good or less break your combo. If you get more than 10 combo your great verdicts will start flashing, but it does not award you with any bonuses. Normal and Easy mode has been added to the game, which differs in what songs can be chosen and when. Battle, Mirror and Random modifiers were added. The game features 11 songs from beatmania and beatmania 2ndMIX along with 16 new songs for a total of 27 songs.
Beatmania III The Final is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the fifth and final game in the beatmania III series, a spin-off of the beatmania series. It is part of the BEMANI franchise. The game is played with a controller with one turn table, one foot pedal and 5 keys, three white and two black. On the screen you will see bars moving from the top to bottom in columns representing each of the keys, foot pedal and the turntable. When the bars reach the judgement line it is time to hit the key or scratch. Every missing completeMIX 2 Double ANOTHER chart has been added. HISPEED has got more settings spanning from x1 - x16. All 46 new songs from beatmania THE FINAL have been added. Additionally 222 songs from previous entries have returned. The final song list has 268 songs in total.