"From Dance Dance Revolution, abbreviated DDR, and previously known as Dancing Stage in Europe and Australasia, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games. Players stand on a "dance platform" or stage and hit colored arrows laid out in a cross with their feet to musical and visual cues. Players are judged by how well they time their dance to the patterns presented to them and are allowed to choose more music to play to if they receive a passing score.
Dance Dance Revolution has been given much critical acclaim for its originality and stamina in the video game market. There have been dozens of arcade-based releases across several countries and hundreds of home video game console releases. The series has promoted a music library of original songs produced by Konami's in-house artists and an eclectic set of licensed music from many different genres. DDR is viewed as an exercise tool and is in use as such in many gyms and schools. The series has also inspired many clones of its gameplay and a global fan base of millions that have created simulators of the game to which they contribute original music and "simfiles", collections of dance patterns to a specific song. DDR celebrated its 10th anniversary on November 21, 2008.
Dance Dance Revolution for the arcades consists of these titles (Japanese releases if nothing else noted):
Dance Dance Revolution (1998)
Dance Dance Revolution internet Ranking version (1998-11-18)
Dance Dance Revolution 2nd MIX (1999-01-29)
Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix Link version (1999-04-28)
Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix CLUB version (1999-05-06)
Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix CLUB version 2 (1999-07-27)
Dancing Stage featuring True Kiss Destination (1999-07-27)
Dance Dance Revolution Solo Bassmix (1999-08-19)
Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix (1999-10-30)
Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000 (1999-12-16)
Dancing Stage featuring Dreams come true (1999-12-15)
Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix PLUS (2000-06-21)
Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix (2000-08-24)
Dancing Stage featuring Disney's Rave (1000-11-30)
Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix PLUS (2000-12-28)
Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix (2001-03-27)
DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6th mix (2001-10)
DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution 7th mix (2002-03)
Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME (2002-12-25)
Dance Dance Revolution/Dancing Stage SuperNOVA (EU 2006-04, US 2006-05, JP 2006-07-12)
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2 (2007-08-22, US 2008-01-18)
Dance Dance Revolution X (2008-12-24)
Dance Dance Revolution X2 (TBA)
Dance Dance Revolution had the Playstation as its home system for a long time. The Japanese PS and PS2 releases consists of these titles:
Dance Dance Revolution (PS, 1999-04-10)
Dance Dance Revolution 2nd ReMIX (PS, 1999-08-26)
Dance Dance Revolution 2nd ReMIX Append Club Version vol.1 (PS, 1999-11-25)
Dancing Stange featuring True Kiss Destination (PS, 1999-12-09)
Dance Dance Revolution 2nd ReMIX Append Club version vol.2 (PS, 1999-12-22)
Dancing Stage featuring Dreams come true (PS, 2000-04-20)
Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix (PS, 2000-05-18)
Ohasuta Dance Dance Revolution (PS, 2000-09-14)
Dance Dance Revolution Disney's Rave (PS, 2000-11-30)
Dance Dance Revolution Best Hits (PS, 2000-12-21)
Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix (PS, 2001-03-15)
Dance Dance Revolution Extramix (PS, 2001-06-07)
Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix (PS, 2001-09-20)
DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6th mix (PS2, 2002-05-16)
DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution 7th mix (PS2, 2003-04-24)
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (PS2, 2003-10-09)
Dance Dance Revolution Party Collection (PS2, 2003-12-11)
DDR Festival Dance Dance Revolution (PS2, 2004-11-18)
Dance Dance Revolution Strike (PS2, 2006-02-16)
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA (PS2, 2007-01-25)
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2 (PS2, 2008-02-21)
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Source: Wikipedia, "Dance_Dance_Revolution", available under the CC-BY-SA License.