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{{BEMANI Timeline}}
= BEMANI Timeline =

In late 1997, KONAMI launched [[AC bm 1st|beatmania]], the very first BEMANI arcade game. While not the first rhythm game, its colorful graphics, variety of music, and then high challenge captivated players, and launched a music game multimedia franchise that has resulted in over a dozen different series, continuing to thrive in Japan to this day nearly 25 years later.<br>

This timeline will cover the following BEMANI-related events by year:

#Release dates of arcade and home BEMANI games.
#Release dates of game soundtracks.
#Release dates of any BEMANI game events.
#Release dates of various KONAMI-published soundtracks.
#Various things that happen to in-house staff members (i.e. [[Akira Yamaoka]]'s quitting KONAMI in 2009.)

It will ''not'' cover:

#Releases of albums not directly from KONAMI. (There are far too many of these to cover.)
#Commission artists, unless they are strongly tied to KONAMI (for example, [[Kosuke Saito|kors k]] and [[Ryutaro Nakahara|Ryu*]]).
#Karaoke Revolution, as the Japanese releases don't consider it a BEMANI franchise.

With that said, click on a year to begin looking up history.

== The 1990's ==

* [[1997]]: [[Beatmania Information|the beginning]]
* [[1998 (year)|1998]]: [[DanceDanceRevolution Information|dancing]] and [[pop'n music Information|pop'n]]
* [[1999]]: [[GITADORA Information|rocking out]] and spinoff showcase

== The 2000's ==

* [[2000]]: year of BEMANI
* [[2001]]: slowing down a bit
* [[2002 (year)|2002]]: starting [[e-amusement|new]] [[V-RARE SOUND TRACK|traditions]], and saying good-bye to [[AC bm THE FINAL|beatmania]]
* [[2003]]: the year of DDR
* [[2004]]: beatmania IIDX [[CS 7th style|returns home]]
* [[2005]]: thinking of the children
* [[2006]]: [[AC DDR SuperNOVA|worldwide dancing]]
* [[2007]]: BEMANI 10th Anniversary
* [[2008]]: tapping along with [[Jubeat Information|jubeat]]
* [[2009]]: the end of BEMANI on PlayStation 2

== The 2010's ==

* [[2010]]: GuitarFreaks and DrumMania get an [[AC GFDM XG|upgrade]]
* [[2011]]: the end of console BEMANI
* [[2012 (year)|2012]]: the rise of the [[AC SDVX|doujin scene]]
* [[2013]]: always online
* [[2014]]: [[beatnation Records]] RHYZEs
* [[2015]]: hi, [[AC_MSC|MÚSECA]]
* [[2016]]: DDR returns to [[AC DDR A|North America]]
* [[2017]]: [[BEMANI Sound Team]]
* [[2018]]: KONAMI vs. GRAC, Anniversaries pt.1
* [[2019]]: beatmania IIDX [[CS ULTIMATE MOBILE|on the go]], Anniversaries pt.2

== The 2020's ==

* [[2020]]: struggling in the real world
* [[2021]]: the return of [[CS jb 2021|mobile jubeat]]
* [[2022]]: 25 years of BEMANI
* [[2023]]: KAC-gate
* [[2024]]: the present

[[Category: History]]