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''Dancing Stage EuroMix'' is a
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, developed by Konami, released to European arcades in August 2000. In North America, the game was released as ''Dance Dance Revolution USA'' in October 2000. ''Dancing Stage EuroMix'' was also released for the PlayStation on June 1, 2001.


Gameplay

The core gameplay involves the player stepping their feet to correspond with the arrows that appear on screen and the beat. During normal gameplay, arrows scroll upwards from the bottom of the screen and pass over a set of stationary arrows near the top (referred to as the "guide arrows" or "receptors", officially known as the Step Zone). When the scrolling arrows overlap the stationary ones, the player must step on the corresponding arrows on the dance platform, and the player is given a judgement for their accuracy of every streaked note.


Music

International variants include ''Dancing Stage EuroMix'' and ''Dance Dance Revolution USA''. ''EuroMix'' was released in European arcades in August 2000. It has a reduced song list of 28 songs, or 34 songs with the Internet Ranking feature enabled. half which are Konami Originals and half which are licenses. Of the licenses, eight are from
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and are only available in this arcade release. Six Konami Originals can be added by activating Internet Ranking, for a total of 34 songs. ''USA'' was released in North American arcades in October 2000. It has a reduced song list of 26 songs: six licenses and 20 Konami Originals. ''EuroMix'' with Internet Ranking and ''USA'' share four licenses and 15 Konami Originals in common, including two ''3rdMix Plus'' tracks: "Love This Feelin'" and "TRIP MACHINE ~luv mix~". The arcade release of ''Dancing Stage EuroMix'' features a total of 34 songs, including 18 licensed songs and 16 Konami original songs. Six of the original songs require the Internet Ranking feature to be enabled, which can be done with a code by an arcade operator. Among the licenses, eight are from
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, and this is the only appearance of these songs in a Konami arcade game. The ten other licenses are from Dancemania, which made their arcade debut in the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' series. "Dam Dariram" and "Do It All Night" also appear in ''
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'' by Step Revolution. The PlayStation release of ''Dancing Stage EuroMix'' features a total of 24 songs. The ten Dancemania licenses and five of the Internet Ranking songs are unavailable, with five other Konami original songs taking their place. "Let The Move" is the sole Internet Ranking song to return on the PlayStation game, and it is available without an unlock code. ''Dancing Stage EuroMix 2'' and ''Dancing Stage SuperNova'' for arcades feature the 16 original songs from ''EuroMix'' without the need for an unlock code.


Reception

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'' gave the PlayStation version of the game a score of 2.5 out of 5, stating: "An arcade formula that barely works at home. The original content has also been commercialised, which will please some but disappoint the purists."


See also

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Dancing Stage ''Dancing Stage'' is a series of music video games developed and published by Konami. It is a spin-off of ''Dance Dance Revolution'' for the European market as well as a few Japanese titles. Games were released for arcade, PlayStation, PlayStatio ...
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Dance Dance Revolution (''DDR'') 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 ...
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* {{DanceDanceRevolution 2000 video games Arcade video games Dance Dance Revolution PlayStation (console) games Multiplayer and single-player video games