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2020

To be updated.

January

February

  • February 1st - 8th: The 9th KONAMI Arcade Championship for BEMANI games was held in esports GINZA studio and at JAEPO 2020. Non-BEMANI games had their final rounds scheduled for February 22nd to 24th; however, they were postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak [1].
  • February 25th: Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a KONAMI employee who was the inventor of the KONAMI code (up up down down left right left right B A start) used in various KONAMI (and non-KONAMI) games - including BEMANI titles - dies at 61.

March

April

  • April 1st: due to rising fears of COVID-19 in Japan, KONAMI suspends all updates to its arcade BEMANI titles after April 1st, besides weekly rankings for beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE and pop'n music peace. The ending dates of all currently ongoing in-game events were postponed. It is currently unknown when updates will resume.

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