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The Sony PlayStation became the new home for most of these new BEMANI arcade releases. DanceDanceRevolution games became huge hits on the system, and the beatmania games continued to sell quite well. KONAMI even dabbled with the Game Boy with their beatmania games, producing three games in all. | The Sony PlayStation became the new home for most of these new BEMANI arcade releases. DanceDanceRevolution games became huge hits on the system, and the beatmania games continued to sell quite well. KONAMI even dabbled with the Game Boy with their beatmania games, producing three games in all. | ||
KONAMI knew it couldn't keep their music games to just Japan and Korea at this point, so they started releasing some of their arcade games overseas in North America as well. Unfortunately, the American 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 ''' | KONAMI knew it couldn't keep their music games to just Japan and Korea at this point, so they started releasing some of their arcade games overseas in North America as well. Unfortunately, the American 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. | 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. | ||