is an

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and PlayStation 2 dance game made by the Japanese company

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and released under the

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moniker following the

Para Para is a synchronized dance that originated in Japan. Unlike most club dancing and rave dancing, there are specific synchronized movements for each song much like line dancing. Para Para has existed since the early 1980s when European countries starte ...

fad. Konami would later release ''

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'' for the

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, a game that shares many similarities with ''Para Para Paradise''.

Music

The music used in Para Para Paradise is exclusively fast-paced

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. The majority of tracks are "true" Para Para tracks from the Avex Trax record label, such as ''Velfarre 2000'', ''Anniversary'' and ''Boom Boom Fire''. A portion of the songs are Eurobeat remixes of other Bemani tracks such as ''CAN'T STOP FALLIN' IN LOVE''. There are also two songs that are J-EURO remixes, remixes of

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songs (''Aishiattemasu'' and ''Deluxe'', both by Key-A-Kiss).

Korean version

A Korean version of ParaParaParadise, called ParaParaDancing was also released. The songlist was changed to feature more Korean music, including a song by S.E.S. Songs by

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artists, H.O.T. "Hold On Me", sung in Korean, was originally in Japanese. ParaParaDancing also features the ability to play on the reverse side of the stage by setting the machine to sense on the rear 5 out of the total 8 sensors, facing the spectators instead.

Emulation and simulation

The developers of

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have been working on a way to emulate the arcade machine on a computer. Since then, 14 other FireBeat games have been dumped, although they still remain marked as not working in MAME. The open-source music game '' StepMania'' also has support for ParaParaParadise, and CVS versions of version 4.0 support the PS2 version's controller, although actual simfiles for the game are few.

Reception

On release, ''

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'' magazine scored the PlayStation 2 version of the game a 31 out of 40.''プレイステーション2 - パラパラパラダイス''. Weekly Famitsu. No.915 Pt.2. Pg.87. 30 June 2006.

References

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