Beat Mania

PlayStation · 1998 · JP

Also known as: Beatmania (EU)

Publisher: Konami · Developer: KCEJ

Beatmania is a rhythm video game developed and distributed by Japanese game developer Konami and first released in 1997. It contributed largely to the boom of music games in 1998, and the series expanded not only with arcade sequels, but also moved to home consoles and other portable devices, achieving a million unit sales. The Bemani line of music games from Konami is named after the series, and was first adopted in the arcade release of beatmania 3rdMIX and kept ever since. The series came to an end with the last game being beatmania THE FINAL, released in 2002. While the series was never ported to the PC, its popularity led to non-official simulators, with one of the most popular being BM98. The player is a club disc jockey (or DJ) who must manipulate the controls according to the instructions on screen to win the praise of the audience. Each game consists of a set number of songs of various difficulties, and each song must attain a certain degree of satisfaction from the audience in order to progress to the next.

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