1997
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1997
1997 was the start of BEMANI. At the time, the "BEMANI" name did not exist; rather, the games were credited to the KONAMI branch that worked on them; in the case of the first beatmania, it was KONAMI GMD R&D 14 (Game Machine Division Research & Development 14). The original music staff consisted of three composers: Hiroshi Takeyasu (who soon left the series to work on pop'n music), Reo Nagumo (who would serve as the head sound director of the series for the next year, and later as a sound producer), and Tomomi Ohta, the first female musician in BEMANI. The first beatmania had only seven different songs and only two charts for each song: one for Single, and one for Double.
December
- Date unknown: beatmania, the very first BEMANI game ever made, is released to Japanese arcades.