Dance Dance Revolution Solo 4thMix and Dance Dance Revolution Solo 4thMix Plus were released concurrently with 4thMix and 4thMix Plus respectively, designed for use with Solo cabinets. The changes in the actual game engine are few, but significant. The 4 and 6-panel modes are offered instead of the usual options, and the chubby arrows of the Solo series also appear. Multi-player Mode from the Solo series is not present in either game.
An ALL MUSIC MODE feature is included for Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix Plus where players have access to all songs in the game instead of picking music genres.
Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix Plus is an upgrade of 4thMix, released on December 28, 2000. It adds fourteen new songs not seen in any previous DDR version. Several older songs have received new Maniac step sets, with the old steps being moved to "Maniac-S" (for Single) or "Maniac-D" (for Double). The new steps are generally much harder than before, and are used as the default Maniac steps in Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix. The old step sets have been restored for songs included in DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution 7thMix, and certain 4thMix Plus steps return as Challenge steps in Dance Dance Revolution Extreme.
An all music mode feature is included for Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix Plus where players have access to all songs in the game instead of picking music genres
Three years have passed since the events of Asura Blade and the post-apocalyptic world has been in a state of calm and peace after the deaths of S. Geist and Curfue, both of whom were killed by Yashaou from within the last fight of the battle, but now, a new threat has arisen as the sudden and shocking sinking of a continent has placed the post-apocalyptic world into a state of chaos and destruction once more. A few of the fighters from the Asura Blade incident of three years ago, along with a few new warriors will find themselves being caught up from within a dark and shrouded conspiracy as a mysterious yet malevolent king aspires to become the new supreme lord of the world.
In December 2000, Konami released Dance Dance Revolution KIDS, which had a new cabinet and game specifically made for a younger audience. The game was never released outside of Japan. Today, very few of these cabinets are left.
Fun Cube is an arcade medal game machine released by Namco from December 2000 to December 2002. Three mini-games were recorded in one machine, and since 1 to 5 were in operation, there were 15 kinds of mini-games in total.
Anime Champ is an arcade Bishi Bashi game released on 2000 exclusively in Japan. It was developed and published by Konami. Players play a variety of mini games from five anime from the 60s and 70s.
An updated version of Tetris The Absolute The Grand Master 2 released shortly after the original, which adds the TGM+ and T.A. Death modes, and also increases Master mode's GM requirements.
Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle is a racing arcade game developed by Namco and released in 2000. It runs on Namco's System 246 hardware and is the ninth installment in the Ridge Racer series. The game is inspired by Ridge Racer V for the Sony PlayStation 2, which was released earlier the same year. In this version, two players can race head-to-head, a reduction from the eight-player support found in Ridge Racer 2 and Rave Racer. Players can choose from six new cars and race on one of five new tracks: "Park Town," "Outer Pass," "Above the City," "Bayside Line," and "Sunny Beach." The "Sunny Beach" track is a shorter version of the original Ridge Racer track, featuring updated graphics.
To activate "Time Trial" mode, players must hold down the "View Change Button" (introduced in Rave Racer) after inserting a coin and keep it pressed until they have selected their car. Once activated, "T.T" will appear on the track selection screen. Ridge Racer V: Arcade Battle marks the final arcade release in the Ridge Racer series.
Beatmania Core Remix is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the ninth 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 game focuses on remixing the songs from the first two game, where every song features a normal and remixed version. it is the first game that lets you change the modifiers from the music select screen, which becomes standard later in the series, but only only when the game is in event mode.
Since the game focuses on remixes no songs from clubMIX was brought over. Instead 17 songs from beatmania and beatmania 2ndMIX was included and remixed. An additional 7 brand new songs was also included for a total of 41 songs.
NASCAR Arcade is a stock car racing game and the first NASCAR game to be made for the arcades. It's officially licensed through Electronic Arts (who had the license at the time) and is based on the 1999 Winston Cup series. There are three different race tracks to choose from each with a different difficulty level: Talladega Superspeedway, Richmond International Raceway and Watkins Glen International. A secret Team SEGA track exist too but it's not made available until 700 races have been made on the machine. Before racing the player can choose from real life cars and drivers that all have different strengths and weaknesses. The cars included are Pontiac Grand Prix, Ford Taurus, Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Pontiac Firebird while there are more than 30 drivers to choose from.
The game can be played from a first person perspective or several different third person views. It's possible to choose automatic or manual transmission. The objective of the game is to race against the clock and reach a top three position and th
Update of the original ParaParaParadise, which was released a month prior.
The ENJOY mode was removed.
The NORMAL, HARD and EXPERT difficulties were placed in a new folder, labeled FREESTYLE.
Total songs: 28
The Simpsons Bowling places the Simpson universe into an arcade bowling video game. It plays like standard bowling game, but with a little Simpson charm.
Keyboardmania 2ndMix is the second arcade release in the Keyboardmania series. Unlike KEYBOARDMANIA, all the songs in KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX have song comments on the official website for the game. LIGHT difficulty is introduced, which is a more simple difficulty that only uses 13 keys instead of 24. NORMAL is renamed LIGHT+. PRESSURE mode is introduced, which consists of four song courses. The gauge starts at 100%, but does not recover from any MISSes, even between songs. Videos for returning KEYBOARDMANIA songs were changed to generic videos that use various KEYBOARMANIA song clips.
A sequel to the 1999 Golgo-13 arcade lightgun game developed by Eighting/Raizing and published by Namco.
The player once again plays as the titular assassin Duke Togo codenamed Golgo 13. The game takes the player on a series of assignments with different targets that need to be dispatched with a scoped rifle.
The sequel adds a new set of assignments alongside a remix of various assignments from the previous game, all based on the manga series.
International variants of Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix include Dancing Stage EuroMix and Dance Dance Revolution USA. USA was released in North American arcades in October 2000. It has a reduced song list of 26 songs: six licenses and 20 Konami Originals. USA shares four licenses and 15 Konami Originals in common, including two 3rdMix Plus tracks: "Love This Feelin'" and "TRIP MACHINE ~luv mix~".
The music of Dance Dance Revolution USA mimics the music of its sister release, Dancing Stage EuroMix, quite a bit. While it's not the same selection of songs it shares the theme of bringing North America up to speed with Japanese releases of the time and the music that was first made available there.
EZ2Dancer is a series of dance video games developed by the Korean video game company Amuseworld. The gameplay of the series is similar to other dance simulation games, but unlike most games of their genre, EZ2Dancer incorporates both hand sensors and foot sensors into gameplay.
Planet Harriers is a seated twin arcade cabinet in the Space Harrier franchise. Like its 1985 predecessor Space Harrier, Planet Harriers had the most technically advanced graphics of 2000, running on the Sega Hikaru arcade system board, which was very powerful (but very expensive) for its time.