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The 29th numbered Beatmania IIDX game
The first and only console version of Konami's ground-breaking music game franchise, beatmania IIDX, to be released in the United States.
As the name suggests, this title marks the end of Konami's 5-key series. Although a sad moment for many longtime fans, this sendoff is arguably the best release in the whole franchise.
The 7th release of Konami's 5-key beatmania franchise and also the first to not receive the home console treatment.
6th game development of beatmania. All previous songs were removed, and were replaced instead of new brand 27 songs. A handful of them were comissioned by UK artist. Also, a new difficult system was added to remove the Normal and Hard modes.
Produced by Konishi Yasuharu of Pizzicato Five fame. The only 5-key release will all new music that never saw an arcade release.
beatmania APPEND ClubMIX is the countpart version of beatmania clubMIX for PlayStation. It was Released on December 21st, 2000. It's tha last game to need a Key Disc to play it.
Being a derivative version of beatmania, it's composed mainly of remixes from the two first beatmania arcade releases. New remixes are denoted as "NEW" while original old songs are labeled as "CLASSIC". None of ClubMIX songs appears here. It's the last derivative beatmania videogame from the lineal releases.
BeatMania GB Gotcha Mix 2 is a videogame launched for Game Boy Color. It has 25 songs and it's the last portable videogame for beatmania franchise, and it's the only one from the trilogy to have "Duet" charts, which two players are needed to play this level via Game Boy link cable, two GBC's, and two copies of the same game.
Released in 2000, as it's tittle says, it has the best music of five games of beatmania: beatmania/beatmania APPEND YebisuMIX, beatmania APPEND 3rdMIX, beatmania APPEND 4thMIX, beatmania APPEND 5thMIX and beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX.
The only release in the franchise to be devoted to a single artist. It has 18 songs from the J-pop band Dreams Come True making it the second game to launch a music game about the same music group, after Dancing Stage featuring DREAMS COME TRUE. Apparently didn't prove too successful as the formula was never repeated.
This game is one of derivations from beatmania. It has 31 songs, most of them licensed, with some original songs. Some songs are from beatmania completeMIX 2.
beatmania APPEND 5thMIX -Time to get down- was released on March 2nd, 2000 as a countpart of beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down-. It has a total of 49 songs, including five additional.
The second and last compilation of beatmania released in the franchise. Features a total of 80 songs, 23 of them new and the rest from it's predecesors, specially from beatmania 4th and 5th mix. This game features Center play mode, which the player can use the 1P keys and 2P turntable. It also is the first game to have the possibility to switch dificult levels with the black keys. This method of changing difficulties was used for remain successor games in the franchise.
BeatMania GB2 Gatcha Mix (stylized as "beatmania GB2 ガッチャミックス"), it's a derivated game of beatmania for Game Boy Color, with a total of 25 songs, most of them licensed. It was developed by KCEJ instead of Bemani.
5th release in Konami's DJ simulation franchise. It was released on September 22nd, 1999. Features crossover tracks from beatmania IIDX, Dancemania and DanceDanceRevolution franchises. It has 30 songs in total, including old songs from beatmania 4thMIX -the beat goes on-.
The fourth full entry in Konami's beatmania franchise.
Filler release of the arcade megahit. Features each song from the first 3 arcade releases.
Is a derivative game from beatmania series. It has a total of 20 songs, most of them brand new songs. It requires a Key Disc to play it because it's an extension. Normal, Hard and Expert are absent from the game. The player go straight to play the songs.
The only WonderSwan game developed by Konami, consist of 11 songs, including an special song. Similar to some pocket games of the same franchise, it wasn't developed by Bemani. Despite the few songs, and the screen have a LCD appareance, the original audio was retained, turning it superior to the Game Boy Color versions, which sound was converted to chiptune.
One of the few games launched for Nintendo company. It has a total of 20 songs, ten of them completely exclusively of the game. It hasn't a special controller, just the D-pad and A, B, and Start buttons. It's one of few games that wasn't developed by Bemani.
The sequel to Konami's first beatmania release for playstation. Requires a Key-Disc to play.
The 3rd release in Konami's arcade beatmania franchise. Cemented the title as a mainstay in Japanese game centers.
Is the first Bemani's developement for console. Is a direct port of beatmania 2ndMIX. Is a Japanese exclusive release with 23 songs available, plus nine extra songs in the second append disc. This last one needs a Key disc to be activated.
Sequel to Konami's surprising arcade hit.
Released in the fall of 1997, beatmania was the first videogame created by Bemani in the history (before named Games & Music Division). It paved the way for all peripheral-based music games.
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