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This Guy’s Fingers Are Insane

This is Dolce. He isn’t an arcade gamer, he’s a human sequencer. Dolce is a top beatmania IIDX player. In the past, he’s either placed or won Konami’s Top Ranker music game tournament. It’s easy to see why.


November 17, 2008
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More Details About Konami’s Guitar Hero Arcade Game

Guitar Hero, the arcade game? According to rumours, an arcade version is incoming from developer Raw Thrills and publisher Konami. Konami is of course no stranger to arcade music games with its successful Beatmania, DrumMania and GuitarFreaks titles. A source has apparently told game site bemanistyle.com that the Guitar Hero arcade game is 100 percent true. “So far, our source has stated the cabinet is going to feature 8-10 speakers,” bemanistyle.com writes, “more than 500 LED lights and a 32″ monitor. The cabinet is also reportedly slated to take advantage of Internet connections to provide online cash tournaments sometime starting in 2009.” If true, this arcade title will be unveiled at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions exhibit in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday.

RUMOR: Guitar Hero “Arcade” a Little Less Rumory [bemanistyle.com via Arcade Heroes]


December 28, 2007
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Konami Adds “Jubeat” To Bemani Line-Up

The newest member of the Bemani family—which includes ˆ, Guitar Freaks, Pop ‘n’ Music, et al.—in Japanese arcades is jubeat, a touch-panel game that… well, we’re not sure what the hell is going on with this one yet. It’s currently on location test in Japan, so we’re sure to see how the game behaves in motion soon enough, but it appears that players will have to frantically slap display screens in time to J-pop tunes, competing with others via local or internet connection. That mysterious glowing cube on top of the cabinet? Unsure, but it may simply be for decoration and to increase the obnoxiousness of the seizure inducing lightshow. More on jubeat as we learn about it.

jubeat [Konami via Arcade Heroes]