AC pnm 3

General Information

• Released: September 1999
• First appearance of Hyper notecharts in the arcade. None of the new AC songs have them, though.
• First game to keep track of your note combo.
• First game with courses. Unlike later games, there's only three songs a course.
• Katoaka Tsugumi (Parquets, Butapunch), Atsushi Shindo, and Kume Yuki (Q-Mex) make their debut in the series.
• Last arcade version to run on BEMANI DJ-MAIN HARDWARE arcade system.
• The soundtrack in this game is the last one to combine both the arcade and the console-exclusive songs from its PlayStation / Dreamcast counterpart on the same CD.
• The songs Bit of Love, Let me feel so high, and ENDLESS SUMMER NUDE were never released on a soundtrack due to licensing issues.
• Total number of songs: 48

Staff Information

• Producer: Koji Okamoto
• Co-producer: Yoshihito Kato
• Director: Ryo Komastu
• Sound Director: Hiroshi Takeyasu
• Music Director: Nazo^2 Suzuki
• Sound Data Analyzers: Jun Wakita, Osamu Migitera, Tomoyuki Uchida
• Character Designer: INUCHIYO
• Programmer: Hideaki Kawashima
• CG Designer: P-CAT, INUCHIYO
• Graphic Designer Shima-Q
• Mechanical Engineer: Kaoru Watanabe
• Hardware Engineer: Keisuke Nozaki
• Special Thanks: Sugimoto Kiyotaka, Homrrine, shio

Song List

Pop'n Music 3 AC Full Song List

First Stage

• MAGICAL GIRL / 恋のシャレード / パーキッツ / Magical Girl (Megumi) - 9
• GUITAR-POP / Take Me To... / Sana (Rie chan) - 10
• EURO DANCE / Bit of Love / Super Wink "fut" Ryo Arche Asakawa (Dia) - 13
• KANGTONG / 和称一起走 / Cathy Lau (LingLing) - 12

Second Stage

• CELT / 水中家族のテーマ / パーキッツ (Poet) - 11
• MONDO / Little Robin's Drawer / Uncle Motchee / Mondo (Cyber) - 13
• PUNK / Let me feel so high / Little Bitch.K2 (Donna) - 16
• HEARTFUL / peppermint / 浅井裕子 / Heartful (Candy) - 14
• SUMMER / ENDLESS SUMMER NUDE / 真心ブラザーズ (Judy)

Third Stage

• SOUNDTRACK / 宇宙船Q-Mex / Q-Mex (P1&P2) - 21
• DANCE POP / Till the end of time / Jullianne & Edison (Rave Girl)
• NEWCOMER / un-Balance / 佐藤千晶 (Kate) - 18
• POWER FOLK / なんか変だ / 新堂敦士 / Powerfolk (Ash) - 23
• J-R&B2 / 愛を探そう / Ma-You (tourmaline) - 13

Hidden Songs

• LOVELY / 8月のサヨナラ / Sana (SANAE Chan) - 15
• JUNGLE / LA LA LA / edison (Bamboo?) - 23

New Songs from CS

• SEXY GIRLS / 淋しくてLoneliness / ワンダース (Meifa) - 21 / H
• CANDY POP / Give me your pain / Haya-P & Maru (Cindy) - 13
• URAN POP / Prism Heart / Sana / Urban Pop (Mrs. Wilson) - 8 / H
• NEW FOLK / 走れブン！ブン！ / わがまま7 (Flower) - 15
• CARIBBEAN / 麗しのカーディガン / Akko's (Olivia) - 16
• CLASSIC 2 / R.C. / Waldeus von Dovjak (Harmanof) - 18 / H
• NEW WAVE / Don't Disturb / Color Essence (Silvy) - 7
• FUNNY / PULSE / 319 (Boy) - 14
• J-GARAGE POP / Miracle Moon(お月様が中継局) / Togo Project feat. Sana (Kelly) - 21
• CUTE / 取り返してやる！～Again,My Lovely Day～ / Akko's (Anzu) - 5 / H
• AKIBA / E.C.M. / PAPEHINA meets Haya-P (Shorky) - 12
• AVANTGARDE / Bee's Eye / Waldeus von Dovjak (Edward) - 23 / H
• LIVE / Theme of staff roll ～special mix～ / きまぐれポッパーズ (Poppers) - 11

Rejected designs

The Pop'n Music series has a long history of rejected characters. Some never saw the light of day, and some would later be used many years or mixes later. For the third game, these include

• Palette, a squirrel girl in the same clothing LingLing wears. Probably rejected and replaced by the latter.
• 2
• Johne, a goat(?) wearing a purple jacket, green shorts, and grey shoes. Possibly the inspiration of Kobe for Pop'n Music 4 CS
• 4
• Yuka, who looks much like Megumi from Pop'n Music 3 but taller and has her hair in two long ponytails. Possibly replaced by her
• 6
• Tina, a girl with brown hair in the same clothes as Kate from Pop'n Music 3. Possibly replaced by her
• 8
• 9
• 10
• Ariel, a nun in purple robes. Possibly an early model for Jessica in Pop'n Music 6
• 12
• Kevin, who was later put in Pop'n Music 5
• The Kaiser, a lion with a purple mane
• 15
• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19
• Donna, who was later put in Pop'n Music 4

Related Links

• Pop'n Music 3 Official Site
• Pop'n Music Original Soundtracks Information
• Pop'n Music 3 rejected characters