Dancing Stage is a series of music video games developed and published by Konami. It is a spin-off of Dance Dance Revolution for the European market as well as a few Japanese titles. Games were released for arcade, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and Wii.
Dancing Stage is a music video game released in arcades on March 9, 1999. It includes 13 songs: nine composed by Naoki Maeda, and four licenses. It uses the Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix engine. In North America, the game received a PlayStation port, which omits "Butterfly" and "Make It Better (So-Real Mix)". Songs in the arcade version include:
"AM-3P" by kTz
"Boom Boom Dollar" by King Kong & D.Jungle Girls
"Brilliant 2U" by Naoki
"Brilliant 2U (Orchestra-Groove)" by Naoki
"Butterfly" by Smile.dk
"Have You Never Been Mellow" by The Olivia Project
"Make It Better" by mitsu-O!
"Make It Better (So-Real Mix)" by mitsu-O!
"My Fire" by X-Treme
"PARANOiA" by 180
"Put Your Faith In Me" by UZI-LAY
"Put Your Faith In Me (Jazzy Groove)" by UZI-LAY
"Trip Machine
is a music video game developed by Konami's music video game division, Bemani, released in Japan on February 26, 1999. The objective is to perform songs using a controller with seven keys and a turntable. Its cabinet contains a widescreen monitor, massive speakers, and eight spotlights. Bemani later developed several updated versions of IIDX to increased success. The game retrospectively received a positive reception from video game publications for its gameplay and increased difficulty.
beatmania completeMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the fourth 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.
Even though the game is based on the beatmania 3rdMIX engine, it does not feature a combo count. It is the first game in the series to show song titles on the song select and not just the genres. The flashing great judgement is introduced, which requires better precision to obtain over the normal great judgement.
INTERNET RANKING functionality is implemented. After a course has been completed an INTERNET RANKING code was given, which could be entered on Konamis online leaderboards.
beatmania completeMIX is a compilation mix containing the full song lists from beatmania - beatmania 3rdMIX. Only 4
Beatmania Append 3rdMix is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the Playstation version of the 3rd arcade game in the beatmania series. It is the second game to be released for the Playstation.
Since this is an Append release, it needs another beatmania title to act as a key disc to boot the game.
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.
Unlike the arcade counterpart, the Playstation version does not have a combo counter. Expert mode is also missing from this version of the game.
The game features all songs from the arcade release except for 4: Beginning of life, DJ BATTLE, jam jam reggae (FUNKY jam Cookie mix), and SKA a go go. The game has a total of 23 songs.
Dance! Dance! Dance! is an Action game, developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Shinjuku and published by Konami, which was released in Japan in 1998.
Beatmania Append 3rdMix Mini is a smaller version of the PlayStation game Beatmania Append 3rdMix, it contains the same features as the main version but only five songs: find out, life goes on, Queen's Jamaica, tribe groove, and wild I/O.
The game came bundled with the soundtrack for the bBeatmania 3rdMix arcade game, titled Beatmania 3rdMix complete.
Since this is an Append release, it needs another Beatmania title to act as a key disc to boot the game.
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.
Unlike the arcade counterpart, the PlayStation version does not have a combo counter. Expert mode is also missing from this version of the game.
Kitty the Kool! is a Japan-only PlayStation Hello Kitty game. It is a music-themed game, featuring Hello Kitty, Osaru no Monkichi, Pochacco and Pokopon in special dress. Badtz-Maru also appears.
In 1998, Codemasters and Jester Interactive created Music: Music Creation For The PlayStation―a video game that simulated an authentic music-making experience on the popular gaming console. Released solely for PlayStation, the music-making program provided gamers and music enthusiasts with 50 pre-recorded riffs and 300 sampled instruments to develop loops and mix them on a 16-track sequencer―along with an array of other audio editing options
Beatmania (Also known as beatmania CS to distinguish it from the arcade game) is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the first game in the beatmania series to have a home release. Which in turn is part of the BEMANI franchise.
This game is based on the engine from beatmania 2ndMIX and contains many songs from that game. A second CD is also included with the package, beatmania APPEND YebisuMIX, exclusive to this release. The base game is what is called a "Key disc", meaning it can be used to launch other APPEND games in the series, this was made so that they could contain more music and assets on the game without having to ship the engine.
Beatmania 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 game contain 23 songs from the arcade game Beatmania 2ndMIX, the bonus CD Beatmania Yebisu
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
Beatmania 2ndMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the second game in the beatmania series and is part of the BEMANI franchise ( which it was named after: BEatMANIa ).
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 2ndMix is the first time the hidden modifier was included, which hides notes halfway down the screen. The Difficulty levels have been reworked to a scale between 1 and 6. All songs from the first game moves on, combined with some remixes and 13 totally new songs for a total of 25 tracks to play.
Bust a Groove is a hybrid music/fighting game combined PaRappa the Rapper-like rhythm-based gameplay with fighting game elements, including special moves designed to damage the opponent and a focus on head-to-head competitive play.