2018

This page is under HEAVY construction.

BEMANI Timeline
1997 - 1998 - 1999 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024

2018

To be updated.

February

• February 10th: The 7th KONAMI Arcade Championship and 天下一音ゲ祭 全国一斉認定大会 2017 are held at JAEPO 2018.
• February 11th: After months of rumors, KONAMI officially announces the endings of REFLEC BEAT and MÚSECA via BEMANI Pia, a 20th anniversary BEMANI book sold at JAEPO 2018.
• February 12th: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS is released to Korean arcades.
• February 14th:
  • jubeat clan ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
  • GITADORA Tri-Boost Original Soundtrack Volume.03 released.
  • GITADORA Tri-Boost Re:EVOLVE Original Soundtrack released.

March

• March 7th: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
• March 23rd: DANCERUSH STARDOM was released to Japanese arcades.

May

• May 9th: 日向美ビタースイーツ♪ BEST, a 2-CD best hits collection of various HinaBitter♪ songs, was released.

June

• June 26th: Offline kits for MÚSECA 1+1/2 were released, as well as conversion kits to change MÚSECA to Bishi Bashi CHANNEL (ビシバシCHANNEL) are available from this date as well.

July

• July 24th, 2018: SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN gets heavily censored in the South Korea version of the game. Due to interference South Korea's video games board, Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC), all songs added after November 16th, 2017 have been removed from the game (except for BLASTER GATE charts for older songs). It is currently unknown when they will be added back.
  • Song updates stopped have stopped for the time being as well.
  • Prior to this, certain songs' jackets were removed from HEAVENLY HAVEN songs.
    • On August 2nd, 2018, a similar censorship began with DanceDanceRevoltuion A, with EXTRA SAVIOR song ALGORITHM being absent from the Korean release of the game, making it so far the only song in A not added to the Korean release. Whether or not all future arcade BEMANI titles will face similar censorship is currently unknown.

• July 31st:
  • eAMUSEMENT support for MÚSECA 1+1/2 ended, marking the end of the series.
  • Patent no. 2922509, which mainly covered elements of the original beatmania series such as keysounded notes and vertical note scrolling, reaches the end of its term.

September

• September 12th: ひなビタ♪ライブSSP～待っててね東京さんっ！～ will be released.

October

• October 10th: pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition will be released.

Upcoming date

• GITADORA EXCHAIN will be released to arcades.
• jubeat festo will be released to arcades.
• ノスタルジア Op.2 will be released to arcades.

This article is a stub. You can help complete this page by filling in missing information and/or by correcting any errors.