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AC pnm 3

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pop'n music arcade releases
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 いろは - 13 カーニバル - 14 FEVER!
15 ADVENTURE - 16 PARTY♪ - 17 THE MOVIE - 18 せんごく列伝
19 TUNE STREET - 20 fantasia - Sunny Park - ラピストリア - éclale
うさぎと猫と少年の夢 - peace - 解明リドルズ - UniLab - Jam&Fizz
アニメロ - アニメロ2号 - MICKEY TUNES - HELLO! (North America)

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.
  • Tsugumi Kataoka (Parquets, Butapunch), Atsushi Shindo, and Yuki Kume (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

New Songs

First Stage

Second Stage

Third Stage

Hidden Songs

New Songs from CS

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. Character descriptions (if any) are taken from the official Botsu page. For the third game, these include

  • Palette, a squirrel girl in the same clothing LingLing wears. Replaced by her.
  • Maron, a quirky schoolgirl.
  • Johne, a dog(?) wearing a purple jacket, green shorts, and grey shoes. Possibly the inspiration of Kobe for pop'n music 4 CS.
  • Miki, a little, green-haired girl with two plushies to the left and right of her; the former looking like PRETTY, and the other a blue cat. Drawn up by p-cat for MAGICAL GIRL, but was replaced by Megumi. According to staff comments on the Botsu page, she's much more active than her.
  • Yuka, who looks much like Megumi from pop'n music 3 but taller and has her hair in two long ponytails. She was created at roughly the same time as Megumi, but was dumped at the end for her.
  • Kaede, a tall, fashionable-looking girl.
  • Tina, a girl with brown hair originally designed for the song NEWCOMER. She was replaced by Kate, though the staff seemed to favor her over Kate.
  • Tom, a spaceman, or possibly a robot. Originally made for the song MONDO under request of Hiroshi Takeyasu for a "space man" character, but was replaced by CYBER.
  • Jhony, a cowboy with a hat that covers his eyes and a clover in his teeth. Originally made for SOUNDTRACK oddly enough, but was replaced by P1&P2.
  • Bikky, a Native American-looking girl. Originally to be used as a non-rival character, but was scrapped.
  • Ariel, a nun in purple robes. Possibly an early model for Jessica in pop'n music 6. Scrapped when they couldn't find a song to use her for.
  • Tomoko, an average-looking girl in a hoodie, jeans, and a hat. Scrapped for being "too normal".
  • Kevin (spelled "Kebin"), who was later put in pop'n music 5. Originally he was intended to be a girl; he was replaced by AYA.
  • The Kaiser, a lion with a purple mane. The staff liked the character but never put him in any game.
  • Dinos, a giant purple dinosaur who was said to be a relative of DiNO's. Never seen it any game.
  • Koon, a punk chicken with human arms rejected for being "too tedious".
  • Lucky, a punk mouse with no shirt.
  • Yumi, a green-haired girl in a pink dress. Was the prototype for Donna and replaced by her because the staff liked Donna more.
  • Ben, a fat, biker-looking guy with a hedgehog on a chain.
  • Donna in an alternate costume consisting of a blue, sleeveless vest, yellow shorts, long, white socks, and black shoes. Originally designed as a ko-gal craze, a fashion fad in the late 90's in Japan among teenage girls.

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