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'''DanceDanceRevolution''' (ダンスダンスレボリューション), abbreviated '''DDR''' and also known as '''Dancing Stage''' (ダンシングステージ) in select games and territories, is the second music video game series produced by KONAMI in the [[BEMANI]] series in 1998. It started initially as an arcade-only game but since received both home versions (both ports and exclusive versions) and various spin-offs. To this day, DanceDanceRevolution is the BEMANI series with the most titles released internationally.

In the spring of 1998, [[Yoshihiko Ota]], a game producer at KCET (a former subsidiary of KONAMI) had an idea for a music game inspired by his habit of walking around town and visiting clubs and discos. He thought that moving his body along to music was fun and could be a great idea for a game. His initial idea received mostly a negative reception from his colleagues: “It's embarrassing to dance in front of people; no one will want to do it!" He argued that the same logic could be applied to Karaoke which was quite popular at that time. Ota’s initial idea was for a a game operated by hand by pushing buttons to go along with the music. However, during the development of that plan, he heard about a product in development that would require the player to stand on panels and operating the game would require the player‘s foot. That concept mixed with his own idea inspired him to create DanceDanceRevolution.