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 KONAMI knew it couldn't keep their music games to just Japan and the rest of Asia at this point, so they started releasing some of their arcade games overseas in North America as well. Unfortunately, the foreign arcade market at the time wasn't as receptive as they would be just a couple of years later to rhythm games. There were two exceptions, though. The first was [[AC DS 1st|Dancing Stage]], an European arcade game loosely based on [[AC DDR 2nd|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX]] that encouraged KONAMI to release a sequel the following year. The other was '''hiphopmania completeMIX''', a North American version of [[AC bm complete|beatmania completeMIX]] that also managed a year later to get a sequel. (Unfortunately the cabinet is quite hard to find, even back then.)
 Lastly, 1999 also marked an extremely important milestone. KONAMI started adapting the current BEMANI name for their music games, the name itself taken from their first game series, beatmania.
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 == January ==
 * January 19th: [[AC bm complete|beatmania completeMIX]], a compilation game of the first three [[AC bm 1st|beatmania]] [[AC bm 2nd|arcade]] [[AC bm 3rd|games]], is released to Japanese arcades.
 ** BEMANI graphic artist [[Hotaru Matsuzaki]] (F-FLY) makes her BEMANI debut in this game.
 * January 29th: [[AC DDR 2nd|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX]] is released to Japanese arcades.
-** [[Naoki Maeda]] start using his NAOKI alias in BEMANI beginning with this game.
+** [[Naoki Maeda]] starts using his NAOKI alias in BEMANI beginning with this game.
 * January 31st: ''beatmania Special CD'' album is released. It contains several songs from the first three beatmania arcade games, coming free with the ''beatmania PRESS MIX'' book KONAMI released to promote beatmania.
+* Date unknown:
+** [[AC bm 3rd|beatmania 3rdMIX]] is released to European arcades.
+** [[AC DS 1st|Dancing Stage]] is released to European arcades.
 == February ==
 * February 16th: [[AC GF|GUITARFREAKS]] is released to Japanese arcades.
 ** BEMANI debuts of in-house composers [[Mutsuhiko Izumi]], [[Toshio Sakurai]], and [[Harumi Ueko]].
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 == March ==
+* March 1st: [[AC GF|GUITARFREAKS]] is released to North American arcades.
 * March 11th: [[CS bm GB|beatmania GB]] is released in Japan for Nintendo's Game Boy Color.
 * March 18th: ''GUITAR FREAKS ORIGINAL GAME SOUNDTRACK'' album released.
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 == April ==
 * April 10th: [[CS DDR 1st JP|DanceDanceRevolution CS (Japan)]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
 ** Another staple in-house DDR composer, [[Yuichi Asami]], makes his BEMANI debut in this game.
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 == May ==
 * May 28th: [[beatmania SuperMIX]] album is released.
 * May 29th: [[CS bm GOTTA|beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
 == June ==
 * June 10th: ''beatmania GOTTAMIX Original CD'', a mini-album of the new songs from beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX, is released alongside the ''beatmania GOTTAMIX Consumer Guide'' book.
 * June 17th: ''beatmania 4thMIX Original Soundtracks'' album released.
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 == July ==
 * July 10th: [[AC DM|drummania]] and [[AC GF2|GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX]] are released to Japanese arcades. The former game introduced veteran KONAMI composer [[Motoaki Furukawa]] to BEMANI, while the latter game marked the debut of veteran composer [[Yoshihiko Koezuka]] and newcomer [[Hideyuki Ono]] to BEMANI.
 * July 27th: [[AC substream|beatmania IIDX substream]], an enhanced version of beatmania IIDX is released to Japanese arcades.
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 == August ==
 * August 6th: ''drummania original soundtracks'' album released.
 * August 19th: [[AC DDR Solo BASS|DanceDanceRevolution Solo BASS MIX]] is released to Japanese arcades.
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 ** Veteran KONAMI composer [[Akira Yamaoka]] makes his BEMANI debut.
 * August 27th: ''beatmania GOTTAMIX Original Soundtracks'' album released.
+* Date unknown: ''' Dancing Stage INTERNET R@NKING Version''', an enhanced port of Dancing Stage, is released.
 == September ==
 * September 3rd: ''GUITAR FREAKS 2nd MIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK'' album released.
 * September 9th: [[CS bm 4th|beatmania APPEND 4thMIX]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
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 == October ==
 * October 8th: ''beatmania ANI-SONGS MIX featuring Dynamic Pro'' album released. It contains new remixes of various anime licenses. Notable remixers include [[Hiroshi Watanabe]] and [[Yasuhiko Fukuda]].
 * October 8th: ''beatmania ANI-SONGS MIX featuring Tatsunoko Pro'' album released. It contains remixes of various Tatsunoko Production anime series. Later BEMANI composer [[Koji Takahashi]] appears on the album.
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 == November ==
 * November 25th: [[CS bm GB Gatcha|beatmania GB2 ガッチャミックス]] is released in Japan for Nintendo's Game Boy Color.
 * November 25th: [[CS DDR 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB vol.1|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB VERSiON vol.1]] is released for the Sony PlayStation
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 == December ==
 * December 3rd: ''beatmania ANI-SONGS MIX featuring Tsuburaya Pro: ULTRAMANIAX RHYTHM'' album released. It contains exclusively remixes of songs from the popular ''Ultraman'' series of shows.
 * December 3rd: ''beatmania ANI-SONGS MIX ULTRAMANIAX BEAT'' album released.
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 == Unknown ==
-* [[AC DS 1st|Dancing Stage]] is released to European arcades.
-* ''' Dancing Stage INTERNET R@NKING Version''', an enhanced port of Dancing Stage, is released.
-* [[AC GF|GUITARFREAKS]] is released to North American arcades.
 * '''hiphopmania completeMIX''', a North American version of beatmania completeMIX with a few songs removed, is released to North American arcades.
 * [[AC pnm|pop'n music]] is released to North American arcades. Several songs are removed, and a few character names were changed.