Beatmania is a music developed by Konami, released 10 December 1997 on Arcade.
What Beatmania is
Beatmania is a music game developed by Konami and released in 1997. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Beatmania is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the first game in the BEMANI series ( which it was named after: BEatMANIa ). It is one of the few music games developed by the internal studio GMD (Game Music Division). Beatmania is played with a controller with one turn table and 5 keys, three white and two black. On the screen you will see bars moving from the top to bottom in columns representing each of the keys and the turntable. When the bars reach the judgement line it is time to scratch. The game contain 7 songs, which is the lowest number ever in the BEMANI franchise.
How it plays
It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Beatmania holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 483 rated music games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 18 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Beatmania launched on 10 December 1997, within three weeks of Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing and Time Crisis II. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing, Time Crisis II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Beatmania yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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