Bit.Trip Beat is an arcade developed by Gaijin Games, released 16 March 2009 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Wii and Android.
What Bit.Trip Beat is
Bit.Trip Beat is an arcade game developed by Gaijin Games and released in 2009. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Wii, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bit.Trip Beat, marketed as BIT.TRIP BEAT, is an arcade-style music video game developed by Gaijin Games and published by Aksys Games for the Wii's WiiWare download service. It was released in 2009 in North America, and released in Japan and PAL regions in the same year. It was later released for the Windows and Mac OS X through the download service Steam in 2010, while Namco Bandai published it for iOS on iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad in both Bit.Trip Beat and Bit.Trip Beat HD versions. Android and Linux versions debuted in the Humble Android Bundle 3.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, party and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Bit.Trip Beat holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0+ GHz and 512 MB of RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Bit.Trip Beat launched on 16 March 2009, within three weeks of Resident Evil 5, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Empire: Total War. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 5, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Empire: Total War.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Bit.Trip Beat 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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