Fun facts about BEMANI

I thought we do something to what we know about BEMANI that we can share to anyone who comes to this forum. Do not go for more than one fact for each post okay. I will go first.

There are 6 of any BEMANI arcade series that contain the word beat. They are all of the 3 beatmania series, jubeat, REFLEC beat, and the upcoming beatstream.

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Well, to add onto that, there are 3 Bemani series that contain the word "dance": DanceDanceRevolution, Dance Evolution, and Dance Maniax.

pop n' music is the longest running of the BEMANI series beating Dance Dance Revolution by 2 months.

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Four, DANCE 86.4, while it was just one game, is also a BEMANI game.

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beatmaniaIII, Dance Maniax, pop'n stage, SOUND VOLTEX, and ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom are the only BEMANI series/games that do not have any official home consumer releases (although that could possibly change for SOUND VOLTEX and ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom since they're recent and still active).

You forgot Mambo A GoGo too NEMESetup, even though one game was released but as DMAxel said, it's still BEMANI.

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Whoops. Don't know how I missed that one.

Neither did DANCE 86.4 and Toy's March.

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lol fail again on my part. I know about DANCE 86.4 existing once upon a time but Toy's March I know nothing about.

Toy's March is one of the few known BEMANI series that was aimed for younger children.

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It would cost you about 268 dollars for all of the songs in jukebeat at the moment

The Bemani games that contain the word "Mania" are beatmania, beatmaniaIIDX, beatmaniaIII, DanceManiax, DrumMania, and KEYBOARDMANIA.

$268 in a span of about 3 years? Not bad, you're welcome Konami

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TAG, Qrispy Joybox, S-C-U, and Yoshihiko Koezuka, who are the sound directors of their respective BEMANI series, all got their start in BEMANI working for the GITADORA series.

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Zirkfied, IX, and Elemental Creation, the songs that have the most notecounts in REFLEC BEAT at 942 notes (at HARD difficulty), are all composed by dj TAKA. (I noticed this before RemyWiki put this entry.)

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Due to it's worldwide popularity in the past, Dance Dance Revolution has the most games released and sold out of any BEMANI series.

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Not sure how you figured that out, but Pop'n Music is about to release it's 54th game, and even if you count international releases of DDR as seperate games, it's still nowhere close.

There is an Asian release of pop'n music 1 that is entirely in English with all the Japanese songs removed.

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beatmania IIDX is the only of the older BEMANI series still running that has not had an official iOS/Android version yet.

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Honestly I don't see an iOS port happening that doesn't rip off Tap Sonic or something similar.