Beatmania (series)

Beatmania (ビートマニア) (styled as beatmania) is a rhythm video game developed and distributed by Japanese game developer Konami and first released in December 1997. It contributed largely to the boom of music games in 1998 in Japan, 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.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) One of the pioneers of music games, Thanks to that, it gave birth to other BEMANI games like Dance Dance Revolution, pop'n music, GuitarFreaks & DrumMania, ETC.
 * 2) Also, other variations of Beatmania was relasased, like Beatmania III and Beatmania IIDX
 * 3) Variety of genres of music like Techno, Hip Hop, House, Rave, Eurobeat, ETC.
 * 4) Good and Addictive Gameplay.
 * 5) Awesome Composers for Konami Original Songs like Reo Nagumo, Takehiko Fujii (Slake), Hiroshi Watanabe, etc.
 * 6) Many releases of the series with many spin-offs of 5key series, mostly of home versions of PlayStation like the GOTTAMIX Series, etc.
 * 7) Many useful options for improving the gameplay.
 * 8) * Since Beatmania 5thMIX has the option the HI-SPEED
 * 9) For home versions, has new songs exclusive, and songs for the next version as preview.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Unlike the Dance Dance Revolution, Beatmania was failure in the Western Market
 * 2) Obligatory control of Beatmania to play comfortably and appropriately in the console releases
 * 3) The videos of animation during the music, although some are fun, most are somewhat generic animations