AlexMax
05-22-2003, 04:08 PM
The king of music/rythem games, Konami, has enjoyed success of its Bemani line of games ever since 1998. Games like Dance Dance Revolution, Beatmania IIDX and Guitar Freaks kept the series strong. But now in the arcades, they have some serious competition...
...from their old time rival, Namco.
Their newest offering, Taiko No Tatsujin (Drum Expert)...
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/363/363631p1.html?fromint=1
is now on PS2, and has had a fairly sucessful arcade run in Japan for the last eighteen months. In direct competition to DrumMania, this game involves you beating on a single drum (as opposed to many pieces of a drum set) in different locations. It's different, but in Japan already 500,000 PS2 units have sold, drum and all.
Keep an eye out for it if you're importing. And because it is by Namco, the poor suckers who live next to a Namco/Tilt/whatever the hell it is arcade (which typically only gets bootleg Dance Dance Revolution...if any bemani at all...) might see something other than bootleg DDR machines at their arcade if demand gets strong enough...
...from their old time rival, Namco.
Their newest offering, Taiko No Tatsujin (Drum Expert)...
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/363/363631p1.html?fromint=1
is now on PS2, and has had a fairly sucessful arcade run in Japan for the last eighteen months. In direct competition to DrumMania, this game involves you beating on a single drum (as opposed to many pieces of a drum set) in different locations. It's different, but in Japan already 500,000 PS2 units have sold, drum and all.
Keep an eye out for it if you're importing. And because it is by Namco, the poor suckers who live next to a Namco/Tilt/whatever the hell it is arcade (which typically only gets bootleg Dance Dance Revolution...if any bemani at all...) might see something other than bootleg DDR machines at their arcade if demand gets strong enough...