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This division of Konami has focused on building music games, developing hits such as Beatmania (their namesake) and Dance Dance Revolution.
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This Konami (Company) subsidiary was named after their first breakout hit, beatmania, taking a few syllables from its title. A year later they released Dance Dance Revolution (Game) which went on to eclipse beatmania with its worldwide popularity. Their newest game DANCERUSH STARDOM is set to release in multiple territories in 2018.
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DrumMania (Game)
The first game which made it's debut along with GuitarFreaks 2ndMIX in 1999. It started with 12 songs, plus eleven more songs via Session Link, a new mode to play between GuitarFreaks 2ndMIX.
GuitarFreaks 2ndMIX (Game)
The second game in the Guitar Freaks series. Is the final arcade to run BEMANI System 573 Analog hardware. First game with internet Ranking. Total of 33 songs.
beatmania (Game)
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.
beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down- (Game)
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-.
beatmania (Game)
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.
beatmania 6thMIX -THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC- (Game)
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.
beatmania CORE REMIX (Game)
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 complete MIX 2 (Game)
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 Club MIX (Game)
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 featuring DREAMS COME TRUE (Game)
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.
Sound Voltex III Gravity Wars e-Amusement Cloud (Game)
Sound Voltex III Gravity Wars e-Amusement Cloud is the first home version of Sound Voltex. It is based on Sound Voltex III with IV's revised difficulty added. It can be played through a pay-per-play or subscription method.
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