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, PlayStation 2 and Wii. European releases. Section::::"Dancing Stage". Dancing Stage is a music video game, developed by Konami, released in arcades on March 9, 1999. This game was released as Dance Dance Revolution in North America. It includes 13 songs: nine composed by Naoki Maeda, and four licenses. It uses the "Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix" engine. In North  America, the game received a PlayStation port, which omits "Butterfly" and "Make It Better (So-Real Mix)". Songs in the arcade version include: 180, kTz, mitsu-O! and UZI-LAY and are pen names for Naoki Maeda. Songs with "Groove" or "Mix" in the title require certain criteria to be unlocked by the player. Dancing Stage Internet Ranking was released exclusively in Europe. It adds another three licensed covers, credited with the original artists: Section::::"Dancing Stage EuroMix". This title uses the Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix engine. It includes 28 tracks and can be expanded to a total of 34 tracks  with Internet Ranking enabled. Contrary to 3rdMix, EuroMix does not use a PC Card. The game's console port was released for PlayStation on June 1, 2001 and contains 24 songs. It removes the Dancemania licenses and all but one song added in the Internet Ranking version, but adds five Konami Original songs. Section::::"Dancing Stage EuroMix 2". This title uses the "DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution 7thMix" engine. It includes 68 tracks, of which 52 are new and 16 are Konami originals from "EuroMix". "EuroMix 2" requires a PC Card and omits the Internet Ranking feature. In contrast to "EuroMix", there  is no home version of "EuroMix 2". However, "Dancing Stage MegaMix" features a similar interface. This game features 28 songs, including 11 Konami originals from "EuroMix 2" and a remix of "Let the beat hit em!" Section::::"Dancing Stage Fusion". "Dancing Stage Fusion" is the first arcade release to be powered by the PlayStation 2 through a Bemani Python board. Despite the improved hardware, this game has fewer songs than its predecessor. "Fusion" features 49 songs, of which ten were available in previous "Dancing Stage" arcade releases, ten are from the arcade release of "Dance Dance Revolution Extreme" and seven are  from older Japanese arcade releases. The remaining 21 songs premiered in "Fusion": six are Konami Originals that later appeared in "Dancing Stage SuperNova", while 15 are licenses that do not return in later arcade releases, with the exception of "Waiting For Tonight" by P.A.T's reappearance in "Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova 2" and "Dance Dance Revolution X". Section::::"Dancing Stage SuperNova". "Dancing Stage SuperNova" used the Bemani Python 2 board. Japanese releases. Section::::"Dancing Stage featuring True Kiss Destination". is the first "Dancing Stage" title of the "Dance Dance Revolution" series released in Japan and other parts of Asia on July 27 , 1999. The Dancing Stage games in Japan all deviate away from the main DDR series of games and for True Kiss Destination, it features a themed set of music by the Japanese group of the same name as well as original music from Konami's in house artists. On December 9, 1999 Konami released the game on the Sony PlayStation. It was part of their "Dance Simulation" series of titles for the PlayStation. This game notably includes the songs "Celebrate Nite" and "Sexy Planet", credited to aliases of Naoki Maeda, which returned in "Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000" and later  Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix Plus. With the exception of "DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix", these songs were subsequently kept in every main DDR release, including the current title, "Dance Dance Revolution A20". Section::::"Dancing Stage featuring Dreams Come True". is the second Japanese Dancing Stage video game. The gameplay is similar to Dance Dance Revolution and it has songs performed by the J-Pop group, Dreams Come True.