''Mambo a Go Go'', 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 ...

produced by

Konami , is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company, video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machin ...

as part of their

BEMANI , stylized as BEMANI, is Konami's music video game division. Originally named the Games & Music Division (G.M.D.), it changed its name in honor of its first and most successful game, ''Beatmania'', and expanded into other music-based games, mos ...

franchise of games. Players must rhythmically beat

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drums as colored notes fall from the top of the screen. There are 3 drums, each one divided into three sections, giving players a maximum of nine places to hit. The game predominantly features

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including "

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", " La Bamba" and "El Bimbo", the song that served as the basis for "El Ritmo Tropical" used in the ''

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'' series. ''Mambo a Go Go'' is likely one of the most obscure BEMANI games released, as it was overshadowed by another music game produced by

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; ''

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''. Despite this, some songs such as "Gamelan de Couple" and "La Bamba" were popular enough to make appearances in other BEMANI series games such as ''

beatmania (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, and the series expanded not only wit ...

'', ''Dance Dance Revolution, and

pop'n music , commonly abbreviated as ''Pop'n'', ''PM'' or ''PNM'' and stylized as ''pop'n music'', is a music video game series in the Bemani series made by Konami. The games are known for their bright colors, upbeat songs, and cute cartoon character graphic ...

''. A release of ''Mambo a Go Go'' in the United States under the title ''Mambo King'' was planned, but never materialized.

Reception

In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Mambo a Go Go'' on their September 1, 2001 issue as being the eleventh most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month.

References

External links

Konami's Mambo a Go Go page (Archived)

Song list (Archived)
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