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{{BEMANI年表}}

= 1999 =
1999 was a very big year for music games in general. Following the success of beatmania, DanceDanceRevolution, and pop'n music, several video game developers started releasing their own music games. ANDAMIRO's ''Pump It Up'' and Amuse World's ''EZ2DJ'' were hitting Korean arcades, and even established game series made before beatmania became big got sequels: NanaOn-Sha's ''UmJammer Lammy'' was a huge hit, combining the engine of its predecessor ''PaRappa the Rapper'' with more freeform guitar licks, and Enix's ''Bust-A-Move 2'' was hitting shelves in early 1999. NAMCO's cult hit ''Pacapaca Passion'' received a PlayStation port, as well as an upgraded version (Special) and a sequel. The PlayStation also received several of its own rhythm games - Warashi's ''Le Concert ff'' and ''Le Concert pp'' took it a step forward and had you controlling an entire orchestra. NanaOn-Sha also released the cult classic ''vib-ribbon'', which used a unique, scribbled black and white aesthetic and had your character literally changing as you moved around. The end of 1999 also saw SEGA step into the music game genre with Compile's ''Puyo Puyo DA!'' and Sonic Team's ''Samba de Amigo''. It would be far from the last rhythm games from the company.

KONAMI itself was pretty busy, too. In addition to three new arcade beatmania titles, six new DanceDanceRevolution arcade titles, and two new pop'n music arcade titles, KONAMI also introduced two brand-new games: [[AC GF|GUITARFREAKS]] and [[AC DM|drummania]]. Unlike their previous game series, though, these games originally featured music from almost entirely veteran KONAMI music composers. Original sound director [[泉陆奥彦|Mutsuhiko Izumi]]'s hard rock sound from over 20 years of previous music experience helped develop a very rich sound the series has to this day. Together with veteran [[肥塚良彦|Yoshihiko Koezuka]]'s more mellow 80s sound, veteran [[上高治己|Harumi Ueko]]'s jazz, and newcomers [[小野秀幸|Hideyuki Ono]]'s ska inspired sound and [[樱井敏郎|Toshio Sakurai]]'s more rock pop sound, GUITARFREAKS and drummania quickly became hits, the former receiving a [[CS GF|PlayStation port]] by the end of the year.

But perhaps the biggest of the new games released that year was, ironically, a spin-off game; [[AC 1st style|beatmania IIDX]]. beatmania IIDX added two new buttons to the overall game design, and also re-positioned the 1P turntable to the left. But it also boasts something the original beatmania never had; full-motion video. For the first time, licensed tracks from the likes of m-flo and other artists featured their original videos. This game also marked the debuts of the hugely popular BEMANI artists [[石川贵之|Takayuki Ishikawa]] (dj TAKA) and [[藤井岳彦|Takehiko Fujii]] (SLAKE). Meanwhile, the original series continued on with [[AC bm 4th|beatmania 4thMIX -the beat goes on-]], which would introduce another staple BEMANI artist, [[角田利之|Toshiyuki Kakuta]] (L.E.D.). Fujii in-particular went on to sound direct near every beatmania game from 1999 onward, while Ishikawa stayed on board with beatmania IIDX, inviting friends of his like [[榊原琢|Taku Sakakibara]] (TaQ) and [[久保田修|Osamu Kubota]] to help make a rich, more electronic counterpart to the more hip-hop/dance/techno tone that the original beatmania kept with Fujii. An append release, [[AC substream|substream]], would also introduce [[Goli Matsumoto]], who would go on to decorate almost every single style of beatmania IIDX with his artwork. All of these men would play a major role in the future of beatmania.

beatmania wasn't the only game with a spin-off, though. DanceDanceRevolution had the [[AC DDR Solo BASS|Solo BASS MIX]] and [[AC DDR Solo 2000|Solo 2000]] games, which transformed the usual four-panel style of DDR on its head. Now you had two extra arrows on the top left and right to work with, resulting in a far more difficult game overall. Both of these games contained almost completely brand-new songs never before in the series.

pop'n music itself had [[AC pns|pop'n stage]], which was a bit like ''PUMP IT UP'', but keysounded. This game also had an almost completely original songlist, and near all of its songs would pop up in the main series of pop'n music titles. It even got an upgrade later that year known as [[AC pns ex|pop'n stage ex]], which added a new difficulty level, a few songs from the then current [[PnM AC 3|pop'n music 3]], and two brand-new songs. One of the new songs, [[WE TWO ARE ONE]], introduced [[村井洁|Kiyoshi Murai]] to BEMANI. Murai would be for years after one of the biggest names in pop'n music, and also a key staff member of KEYBOARDMANIA starting the following year.

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 the rest of Asia at this point, so they started releasing some of their arcade games overseas in North America as well. Unfortunately, the foreign 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.

So overall 1999 was a very big year for KONAMI's BEMANI series. But [[2000]] would make 1999 look like nothing happened at all.

== January ==

* January 19th: [[AC bm complete|beatmania completeMIX]], a compilation game of the first three [[AC bm 1st|beatmania]] [[AC bm 2nd|arcade]] [[AC bm 3rd|games]], is released to Japanese arcades.
** BEMANI graphic artist [[小松萤|Hotaru Matsuzaki]] (F-FLY) makes her BEMANI debut in this game.
* January 29th: [[AC DDR 2nd|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX]] is released to Japanese arcades.
** [[前田尚纪|Naoki Maeda]] start using his NAOKI alias in BEMANI beginning with this game.
* January 31st: ''beatmania Special CD'' album is released. It contains several songs from the first three beatmania arcade games, coming free with the ''beatmania PRESS MIX'' book KONAMI released to promote beatmania.

== February ==

* February 16th: [[AC GF|GUITARFREAKS]] is released to Japanese arcades.
** BEMANI debuts of in-house composers [[泉陆奥彦|Mutsuhiko Izumi]], [[Toshio Sakurai]], and [[Harumi Ueko]].
* February 25th: [[PnM CS|pop'n music家用版]] is released in Japan for both the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast.
** Veteran KONAMI composers [[林阳一|Yoichi Hayashi]], [[中田晓|Satoru Nakata]], and [[兼田润一郎|Junichiro Kaneda]] make their BEMANI debuts, the former staying on as head sound director of the series for the next five years.
* February 26th: [[AC 1st style|beatmania IIDX]] is released to Japanese arcades.
** BEMANI debuts of in-house artists [[石川贵之]] and [[藤井岳彦|Takehiko Fujii]].

== March ==

* March 11th: [[CS bm GB|beatmania GB]] is released in Japan for Nintendo's Game Boy Color.
* March 18th: ''GUITAR FREAKS ORIGINAL GAME SOUNDTRACK'' album released.
* March 19th: [[PnM AC 2|pop'n music 2]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* March 26th: ''pop'n music original soundtrack'' album released.
* March 26th: Singer [[Yurica Nagasawa]]'s third and final album with KONAMI, [[1999~VOCE~]], is released.

== April ==

* April 10th: [[CS DDR 1st JP|DanceDanceRevolution CS (Japan)]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
** Another staple in-house DDR composer, [[浅见佑一|Yuichi Asami]], makes his BEMANI debut in this game.
* April 16th: ''Konami Game Music Now 1999'' album released. It exclusively contains the new songs from beatmania GB on it, along with various beatmania, DanceDanceRevolution, GUITARFREAKS, and pop'n music songs among other KONAMI game franchises.
* April 21st: [[AC DDR CLUB VER.1|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON]] is released to Japanese arcades. This game combines DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX and beatmania IIDX together to play 13 songs on for synchronized play.
* April 23rd: ''beatmania IIDX Original Soundtracks'' album is released, containing (near) all the KONAMI originals new and old from [[AC 1st style|beatmania IIDX]].
* April 26th: [[AC bm 4th|beatmania 4thMIX -the beat goes on-]] is released to Japanese arcades.
** Takehiko Fujii assumes the role of sound director of beatmania from Reo Nagumo, who would continue to stay on board as a sound supervisor.
** BEMANI debut of in-house composer [[角田利之|Toshiyuki Kakuta]].
* April 28th: [[CS bm WS|beatmania for WonderSwan]] is released in Japan for the Bandai WonderSwan.
* April 28th: ''DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION'', an upgrade to DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX, is released to Japanese arcades.
* April 28th: ''Dance Dance Revolution 2nd MIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK'' album released.

== May ==

* May 28th: [[beatmania SuperMIX]] album is released.
* May 29th: [[CS bm GOTTA|beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.

== June ==

* June 10th: ''beatmania GOTTAMIX Original CD'', a mini-album of the new songs from beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX, is released alongside the ''beatmania GOTTAMIX Consumer Guide'' book.
* June 17th: ''beatmania 4thMIX Original Soundtracks'' album released.
* June 20th: ''Dance Dance Revolution KONAMI ORIGINAL DANCE NUMBERS'' mini-album released. It contains a few songs from [[AC DDR 1st|DanceDanceRevolution]], and was released with a guide book for DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX.

== July ==

* July 10th: [[AC DM|drummania]] and [[AC GF2|GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX]] are released to Japanese arcades. The former game introduced veteran KONAMI composer [[Motoaki Furukawa]] to BEMANI, while the latter game marked the debut of veteran composer [[Yoshihiko Koezuka]] and newcomer [[小野秀幸|Hideyuki Ono]] to BEMANI.
* July 27th: [[AC substream|beatmania IIDX substream]], an enhanced version of beatmania IIDX is released to Japanese arcades.
** Reo Nagumo steps down as sound director of beatmania IIDX, and his position goes to Takayuki Ishikawa, who would serve as head sound director of the series for the next six years.
** Artists [[Goli Matsumoto]] and [[Yuji Takahashi]] (YUZ/VJ YUZ) make their BEMANI debuts in this game.
* July 27th: [[AC DDR CLUB VER.2|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX AND beatmania IIDX substream CLUB VERSiON 2]] is released to Japanese arcades. A sequel to DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON, this version features five full charts for each of its 42 songs.
* July 27th: [[AC DS TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON|Dancing Stage featuring TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* July 29th: [[CS GF|GUITARFREAKS家用版]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.

== August ==

* August 6th: ''drummania original soundtracks'' album released.
* August 19th: [[AC DDR Solo BASS|DanceDanceRevolution Solo BASS MIX]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* August 26th: [[CS DDR 2ndReMIX PS|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
** Veteran KONAMI composer [[山冈晃|Akira Yamaoka]] makes his BEMANI debut.
* August 27th: ''beatmania GOTTAMIX Original Soundtracks'' album released.

== September ==

* September 3rd: ''GUITAR FREAKS 2nd MIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK'' album released.
* September 9th: [[CS bm 4th|beatmania APPEND 4thMIX]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
* September 14th: [[PnM CS 2|pop'n music 2家用版]] is released in Japan for both the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast.
* September 17th: [[PnM AC 3|pop'n music 3]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* September 22nd: [[AC bm 5th|beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down-]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* September 24th: [[AC pns|pop'n stage]] is released to Japanese arcades.
** Notechart designer [[古贺博树|Hiroki Koga]] starts writing his own music for BEMANI.
* September 30th: [[AC 2nd style|beatmania IIDX 2nd style]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* Date unknown: '''GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX Link version''', an upgraded version of GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX with five new songs, is released.

== October ==

* October 8th: ''beatmania ANI-SONGS MIX featuring Dynamic Pro'' album released. It contains new remixes of various anime licenses. Notable remixers include [[Hiroshi Watanabe]] and [[Yasuhiko Fukuda]].
* October 8th: ''beatmania ANI-SONGS MIX featuring Tatsunoko Pro'' album released. It contains remixes of various Tatsunoko Production anime series. Later BEMANI composer [[Koji Takahashi]] appears on the album.
* October 22nd: ''pop'n music 2 original soundtracks ★ new songs collection'' album released.
* October 30th: [[AC DDR 3rd|DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX]] is released to Japanese arcades.

== November ==

* November 25th: [[CS bm GB Gatcha|beatmania GB2 ガッチャミックス]] is released in Japan for Nintendo's Game Boy Color.
* November 25th: [[CS DDR 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB vol.1|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB VERSiON vol.1]] is released for the Sony PlayStation
* November 26th: [[Nanka hen da! ~from pop'n music 3 (Limited Edition)|なんか変だ! ~from pop'n music 3 (Limited Edition)]] EP released. It is the only [[新堂敦士|Atsushi Shindo]] song released under KONAMI's muslc label.
* November 26th: [[un-Balance ~from pop'n music 3 (Limited Edition)]] EP released.

== December ==

* December 3rd: ''beatmania ANI-SONGS MIX featuring Tsuburaya Pro: ULTRAMANIAX RHYTHM'' album released. It contains exclusively remixes of songs from the popular ''Ultraman'' series of shows.
* December 3rd: ''beatmania ANI-SONGS MIX ULTRAMANIAX BEAT'' album released.
* December 8th: ''Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK'' album released.
* December 9th: [[CS DS TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON|Dancing Stage featuring TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
* December 16th: [[AC DDR Solo 2000|DanceDanceRevolution Solo 2000]] is released to Japanese arcades.
* December 20th: [[AC pns ex|pop'n stage ex]], an enhanced version of pop'n stage, is released to Japanese arcades.
** Veteran KONAMI composer [[村井洁|Kiyoshi Murai]] makes his BEMANI debut in this game.
* December 22nd: [[CS DDR 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB vol.2|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB VERSiON vol.2]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
* December 25th: [[AC DS DREAMS COME TRUE|Dancing Stage featuring DREAMS COME TRUE]] is released to Japanese arcades.

== Unknown ==

* [[AC DS 1st|Dancing Stage]] is released to European arcades.
* ''' Dancing Stage INTERNET R@NKING Version''', an enhanced port of Dancing Stage, is released.
* [[AC GF|GUITARFREAKS]] is released to North American arcades.
* '''hiphopmania completeMIX''', a North American version of beatmania completeMIX with a few songs removed, is released to North American arcades.
* [[PnM AC|pop'n music]] is released to North American arcades. Several songs are removed, and a few character names were changed.
* [[盐野友子|Tomoko Shiono]] leaves the pop'n music staff to work on the beatmania series sometime after the completion of pop'n music 2. She would return to pop'n music the following year.

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