''Dancing Stage'' is a
music video game
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs. Music video games may take a ...
, developed by Konami, released in European arcades on March 9, 1999. In North America, the game was released as ''Dance Dance Revolution'' on the same date, and it received a
PlayStation
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port on March 6, 2001. It is the first international release of the game. The arcade version features 13 songs, with 11 of these available on the PlayStation port, while ''Dancing Stage Internet Ranking'' adds another three exclusive songs to arcades.
Gameplay
The core gameplay involves the player stepping their feet to correspond with the arrows that appear on screen and the beat. During normal gameplay, arrows scroll upwards from the bottom of the screen and pass over a set of stationary arrows near the top (referred to as the "guide arrows" or "receptors", officially known as the Step Zone). When the scrolling arrows overlap the stationary ones, the player must step on the corresponding arrows on the dance platform, and the player is given a judgement for their accuracy of every streaked note.
Music
All versions include the following songs:
* "AM-3P" by kTz
* "Boom Boom Dollar" by King Kong & D.Jungle Girls
* "Brilliant 2U" by Naoki
* "Brilliant 2U (Orchestra-Groove)" by Naoki
* "
Have You Never Been Mellow
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Both the title single and the album rose to the top of their respective US charts ...
" by The Olivia Project
* "Make It Better" by mitsu-O!
* "
My Fire
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" by X-Treme
* "PARANOiA" by 180
* "Put Your Faith In Me" by UZI-LAY
* "Put Your Faith In Me (Jazzy Groove)" by UZI-LAY
* "Trip Machine" by De-Sire
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Butterfly
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Smile.dk
Smile.dk (sometimes written SMiLE.dk or Smile-dk, pronounced ''Smile D-K'') or Smile is a Swedish Eurodance group with Veronica Almqvist as the only current member. The band is known for many songs featured in music video games, such as ''Dance ...
and "Make It Better (So-Real Mix)" by mitsu-O! are exclusive to the arcade release.
180, kTz, mitsu-O! and UZI-LAY are
pen name
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A pen na ...
s for Naoki Maeda. Songs with "Groove" or "Mix" in the title require certain criteria to be unlocked by the player.
''Dancing Stage Internet Ranking'' was released exclusively in Europe. It adds another three licensed covers, credited with the original artists:
* "
It's Like That" (cover of
Run–D.M.C. vs.
Jason Nevins
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)
* "
Last Thing On My Mind by Step Ahead (cover of
Steps)
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Uh La La La
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" by Party All Night (cover of
Alexia)
Reception
It was a runner-up for ''GameSpot''s annual "Best PlayStation Game" and "Best Music/Rhythm Game" awards, which went to ''
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Frequency
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'', respectively.
See also
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Dancing Stage
''Dancing Stage'' is a series of music video games developed and published by Konami. It is a spin-off of ''Dance Dance Revolution'' for the European market as well as a few Japanese titles. Games were released for arcade, PlayStation, PlayStation ...
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Dance Dance Revolution
(''DDR'') is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, ''Dance Dance Revolution'' is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance V ...
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References
External links
ddr.sh entry for ''Dance Dance Revolution''
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1999 video games
Arcade video games
Dance Dance Revolution games
PlayStation (console) games
Video games developed in Japan
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