Just Dance (video game)

is a rhythm game developed and published by Ubisoft for the Wii, and it is the first in the video game series of the same name. It got released on November 17, 2009, in North America, November 26, 2009, in Australia, and November 27, 2009, in Europe.
The title is derived from the 2008 Lady Gaga song of the same name.https://www.stereogum.com/2222358/the-number-ones-lady-gagas-just-dance-feat-colby-odonis/columns/the-number-ones/
==Gameplay==
In , players use only the standard Wii Remote or Wii Remote Plus and attempt to mimic all the moves of the on-screen silhouette dancer. Players can earn points depending on what moves they perform and how well they perform them, and special Shake Moves in some songs award the player bonus points when performed correctly.
The game has three gameplay modes: the normal mode, in which players pick any track and attempt to dance with the on-screen dancer; a "Last One Standing" mode, in which players are eliminated if they fail to score enough points or make too many mistakes; and a "Strike a Pose" mode, in which players start and stop dancing as dictated by the on-screen dancer. 
==Covers==
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==Track List==
*An asterisk (*) indicates that this song is covered in-game.
*A song colored in █ is playable on the demo version.
There are 32 tracks in this game, all of which are Solo.
Song 	Artist 	Year	Difficulty	Effort	Menu Square
Girls Just Want to Have Fun 	Cyndi Lauper 	1983	1 	2 	
Ring My Bell 	Anita Ward 	1979	2 	1 	
A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Edit Remix)	Elvis Presley vs. JXL 	2002	2 	2 	
Cotton Eye Joe 	Rednex 	1994	1 	3 	
Surfin’ Bird 	The Trashmen 	1963	1 	3 	
Heart of Glass 	Blondie 	1978	2 	1 	
Womanizer 	Britney Spears(The Gym All-Stars) 	2008	2 	1 	
 	Deee-Lite 	1990	3 	2 	
Jerk It Out 	Caesars 	2002	3 	3 	
I Like to Move It (Radio Mix) 	Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman 	1993	2 	2 	
 	Katy Perry 	2008	1 	3 	
Mashed Potato Time 	Dee Dee Sharp 	1962	1 	1 	
Girls & Boys 	Blur 	1994	2 	2 	
Fame 	Irene Cara(In The Style of Irene Cara) 	1980	1 	3 	
Lump 	The Presidents of the United States of America	1995	1 	3 	
Kids in America 	Kim Wilde 	1981	2 	2 	
 	Technotronic 	1989	2 	3 	
I Get Around 	The Beach Boys 	1964	2 	1 	
Le Freak 	Chic 	1978	2 	1 	
That’s the Way (I Like It) 	KC and the Sunshine Band 	1975	3 	1 	
Louie Louie 	Iggy Pop 	1993	1 	3 	
Funplex (CSS Remix) 	The B-52's 	2008	2 	2 	
Jin Go Lo Ba 	Fatboy Slim 	2004	3 	2 	
Dare 	Gorillaz 	2005	2 	1 	
Bebe 	Divine Brown 	2008	2 	1 	
Eye of the Tiger 	Survivor 	1982	1 	3 	
Can’t Get You Out of My Head 	Kylie Minogue 	2001	2 	1 	
Acceptable in the 80s 	Calvin Harris 	2007	3 	3 	
Who Let the Dogs Out? 	Baha Men 	2000	3 	2 	
Wannabe 	Spice Girls 	1996	1 	2 	
Step by Step 	New Kids on the Block 	1990	2 	2 	
U Can’t Touch This 	MC Hammer 	1990	2 	3 	
===Warm Up===
This track can be accessed via the "Warm Up" page of the game.
Song 	Artist 	Year
Warm Up	Crispy Duck	2005https://www.apmmusic.com/albums/LOCD-0005
==Removed Songs==
These songs were planned to be in the game but were taken out for unknown reasons.
*(JD2) indicates that this song later appeared on .
*(JD3) indicates that this song later appeared on .
Song 	Artist 	Year
FeelGood 	Unknown 	N/A
Jungle Boogie (JD2) 	Kool And The Gang 	1973
Land Of 1000 Dances (JD3)	Wilson Pickett 	1966
Shake 	Sam Cooke 	1964
Soul Bossa Nova (JD2) 	Quincy Jones and His Orchestra	1962
==ESRB/PEGI Ratings==
===ESRB Rating===
Resources can be found here
Category: 
Platforms: Wii
Content descriptors: Lyrics, Mild Suggestive Themes
Rating Summary: This is a dancing simulation game in which players perform and learn dance steps by following the movements of on-screen avatars. The virtual dancers resemble silkscreen-negative silhouettes: they are stylized after the era of each song, and their outfits are not especially revealing. The dance moves, however, occasionally involve spanking, pelvic thrusting, hip-shaking, and swaying hips. That accounts for the Mild Suggestive Themes descriptor. The game is rated E-10+ because it contains some songs with expletives (e.g., “a*s”) and suggestive or crude content (e.g., “You’re a womanizer,” “She spent her twenties between the sheets,” and a “PMS” insult).
===PEGI Rating===
Resources can be found here
Category: 
Platforms: Wii
==Trivia==
===General===
*On Metacritic, has the worst reception (49%) out of all the games in the franchise.
* is the first main installment to not have DLC; it is later followed by (they are replaced by for eighth-generation platforms).
*Julia Spiesser and Jérémy Paquet are the only choreographers for the dancers, each choreographing the characters of their matching genders. Thus, this is the game in the main series with the fewest choreographers and performers (2 each).
* is the only game in the traditional series that was announced at Gamescom.
**Until , it was the only game to not be announced at E3.
*On the GameStop website in North America, an alternate cover can be seen.https://www.gamestop.com/wii/games/just-dance/75967
*The back cover of the game’s North American instruction booklet features an advertisement for .
===In-Game===
*This is the only main series game which does not have:
**Songs that were released in the game’s release year
***Excluding Ubisoft original tracks, is the only other game to not contain any songs that were released in the year the game was released.
** Songs from the 2010's decade (since the game was released in 2009)
**Scrolling lyrics - lyrics do not scroll line by line as they do from onwards, but a line or two are displayed at a time after which they immediately change to the next portion of lyrics.
**Differently-colored gloves on the coaches right hand (Although the coaches in a few of the routines wear accessories around their wrists where their gloves would be)
**Gold Moves
**Stars
**"PERFECT", "GOOD", and "YEAH'" moves
**Duets
**Songs with the title in the background
** Alternate Routines
**Songs that can be bought - games from to have DLCs, games from to have (only for 8th-generation consoles), and games from onwards have .
**Songs with censorship added by Ubisoft 
***In later games "hell" is censored in Cotton Eye Joe.
***Bebe has censorship but it was not added by Ubisoft.
**Songs created by Ubisoft
*This is the only game in the main series that does have:
**A silhouette behind the coaches
**A scoring system with scores over 15000
**Dancers with only one color besides white (in this case, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Surfin’ Bird, and Womanizer)
**Percentage of certain ratings on the Score Recap screen (49% GREAT, for example)
***A similar feature was introduced in the World Dance Floor for eighth-generation consoles on onwards; however, this gives the number of moves in a category (e.g. OK, x GOOD, PERFECT, and YEAH).
****A similar concept was reciprocated in in single-player mode only when playing any song in the main menu.
**Exclusively Solo routines
**A visual "1, 2, 3, 4" count before the routine commences ( also has this, but it is not in the main series).
***However, several songs in have an audible "1, 2, 3, 4" countdown.
**Shake Moves (in later games there are Gold Moves instead)
*** also has these, but it is not in the main series.
**2D pictograms (from onwards, they are made in 3D)
*** pictograms, however, were initially designed to resemble those from the previous game.
***Every pictograms have a arrow pointing down.
*None of the dancers in the trailer for the game made an appearance in the actual game, as they were only there for promotional reasons.
**However, the routines they performed were used.
*The German version has many incorrect spelling mistakes in lyrics and menus.
**For example, it says "Gepielte Songs" instead of "" in the song-overview menu.
*Scoring was a huge issue, as it was not at its full potential at the time. Hand movements often were read incorrectly and gave you a score of "X" or "OK". The scoring was fixed in its successor and other successive games.
**Because of this, the maximum score is still unknown today.
*If one score over 10,000, a gold border will appear on the menu icon. If one score at or above 15,000, a gold border with a crown will appear on the menu icon.
*The song Funk Brass Remix by Laurent Lombard plays during the credits.
*In the files, some pictures are upside-down.
*If the game is played on a hacked console with the language set to Japanese, all in-game text (save for song titles) will disappear.
*All the songs have remakes found in the files except for Groove Is in the Heart.
*This is the only game in the main series that is playable in both normal 4:3 and 16:9 widescreen aspect ratios. This is because this game is designed to be played in 4:3. Starting with , the aspect ratio is forced 16:9.
*In Mashups and Party Master Modes, every routine has a -styled extraction (excluding Wannabe), including routines that have not been in any other game.
*This was the only game in the series to use the .
*This game does not have a single map that is rated “Hard” on or .
===Beta Elements===
For a full list of ’s beta elements, see Just Dance (video game)/Beta Elements.
==Gallery==
Just Dance Box Art.png|NTSC box art
JDNTSCCoveralt.jpeg|Alternate NTSC box art found on the GameStop website
Jd1 pal cover.png|PAL box art
JustDance1 ANZ Wii boxart.png|PAL (ANZ) box art
Jd01 thumbnail.png|Icon from the sticker album
===Game Files===
Tex1 128x32 b5d32778cd311351 14.png|"X" feedback
Tex1 128x32 3bf7e1e5a9728385 14.png|"OK" feedback
Tex1 128x32 dee89ee000a9477a 14.png|"GREAT" feedback
Tex1 128x128 5d9d40c14f6bb5bb 14.png|Shake Meter
JD1 1.png|1
JD1 2.png|2
JD1 3.png|3
JD1 4.png|4
===Behind the Scenes===
Bebe bts.webp|Bebe
Fame beta bts.png|Fame (beta coach)
Groove in the heart bts.png|Groove Is In The Heart
Heartofglass beta bts.jpeg|Heart of Glass (beta coach)
Behind the scenes 2.png|Hot N Cold
PumpUpTheJam BTS.png|Pump Up the Jam
Surfinbird bts.jpg|Surfin’ Bird and Womanizer (beta coach)
Wannabe BTS.jpg|Wannabe (beta outfit)
Wholetthedogsoutbts.png|Who Let The Dogs Out
==Videos==
Just Dance - Rabbids' application to the Contest
All Star Weekend play Just Dance
Just Dance™ Awareness Video Wii™ Video Game
Just Dance Easter Bunny video
Just Dance Announced and GamesCom 2009 Trailer
Just Dance - Credits
Just Dance 1 Demo - Menu
==References==
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