Pump It Up (Franchise)

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Pump It Up is a franchise of dance simulation games for arcade, console and portables.

Overview

Pump It Up, often abbreviated PIU, is a franchise of arcade, console and portable video games developed by Andamiro, a South Korean arcade game manufacturer.

The arcade dance games were representative of South Korean arcade scene from the late 90's to early 2000's, leading a huge boom of arcades - often referred to as the Renaissance of arcades in South Korea. After the popularity of arcades died down around the early 2000's, Pump It Up continued to be a success internationally, especially in Latin America.

Relationship with Dance Dance Revolution (Franchise)

In the beginning, there is no denying that PIU is a direct rip-off of DDR. It is objectively obvious that the dance pad is the inverse of DDR pad; instead of up-down-left-right pattern, the buttons are four diagonals and a center button. Simply put, PIU was simply yet another DDR clone in the sea of clones that were developed in the late 90's.

As the arcade games progressed - after yearly (or sometimes even more frequent) updates to the UI and songs, the gameplay also started to diverge from core DDR mechanics. For example:

Introduction of hold notes (before DDR)
Usage of USB sticks for tracking progress
Focus on high difficulty step charts as opposed to DDR's focus on accuracy.

List of Arcade Releases

Title	Release Date	Region	Notes
Pump It Up	August 1999	S. Korea
Pump It Up 2nd	December 1999	S. Korea
Pump It Up 3rd: The O.B.G.	May 2000	S. Korea
Pump It Up The O.B.G. Season Evolution	September 2000	S. Korea
Pump It Up The Collection	November 2000	S. Korea
Pump It Up The Perfect Collection	December 2000	S. Korea	Third game in the same year (2000) Revamped interface
Pump It Up EXTRA	February 2001	S. Korea, Latin America	First international release Only game developed by second party (F2)
Pump It Up The Premiere	July 2001	Europe	First EU release
Pump It Up The Prex	November 2001	Latin America
Pump It Up The Rebirth	January 2002	S. Korea
Pump It Up The Premiere 2	March 2002	Europe
Pump It Up The Prex 2	November 2002	Latin America
Pump It Up The Premiere 3	May 2003	Europe
Pump It Up The Prex 3	October 2003	S. Korea, Latin America
Pump It Up EXCEED	April 2004	Worldwide	First worldwide release
Pump It Up EXCEED 2	December 2004	Worldwide
Pump It Up ZERO	February 2006	Worldwide
Pump It Up New Xenesis (NX)	December 2006	Europe, Latin America, Asia, Oceania
Pump It Up Pro	August 2007	N. America	First game based on Stepmania engine, co-developed by American developers
Pump It Up NX2 ~Next Xenesis~	January 2008	Europe, Latin America, Asia, Oceania
Pump It Up NX Absolute	December 2008	Europe, Latin America, Asia, Oceania
Pump It Up FIESTA	March 2010	Europe, Latin America, Asia, Oceania
Pump It Up Pro 2	April 2010	N. America
Pump It Up FIESTA EX	March 2011	Europe, Latin America, Asia, Oceania
Pump It Up FIESTA 2	November 2012	Asia, Latin America, Oceania
Pump It Up INFINITY	April 2013	N. America, Europe

List of Home Releases

Title	Platform	Notes
The Fusion - 1st & 2nd Dance Floor	PC	Included a PIU pad that connected to an adapter. The inputs to the adapter were ps/2 connection from a PIU pad and a ps/2 keyboard; the output was a ps/2 port into the PC. The adapter had a switch that allowed either the keyboard or the dance pad to be enabled - one at a time. The dance mat produced keyboard inputs, but reversed vertically (i.e., Q and E were mapped to bottom left and bottom right, S to center, Z and C to top left and top right) as a measure to prevent playing with a keyboard.
The Fusion - 3rd O.B.G. Dance Floor	PC	Sold as both a bundle with dance mat, and also as a standalone disc.
The Fusion - Season Evolution O.B.G.	PC	Sold as a standalone disc only.
The Fusion - Perfect Collection	PC
The Evolutionary Dance Floor	PC	International release; a USB dance mat was included. The game is most similar to Season Evolution O.B.G. with some Banya songs excluded.
Banya Collection	PC	Second international release.
The PREX 3	PC	Korea and International; last PC release.
EXCEED	PS2	Korea; first console release.
EXCEED SE	PS2, XBOX	North America. DLCs were available on Xbox Live version.
EXCEED Portable	PSP	Korea.
Zero Portable	PSP	Korea. Last home version release.

Other Releases and Spin-Offs

Pump It Up Jump * Released internationally; a small cabinet designed for small children based on PRO software, using Stepmania-based engine.
Pump It Up Fitness * Shown at GSTAR 2013; never released.

Games

Pump It Up!

31 December 1999

Platforms/PCPlatforms/Arcade

Pump It Up: Exceed

31 August 2005

Platforms/PlayStation 2Platforms/ArcadePlatforms/Xbox

Pump It Up Zero Portable (Game)

15 October 2007

Platforms/PlayStation Portable

Pump it up NX2 (Game)

31 December 2007