Beatmania The Final

Beatmania (ビートマニア) (styled as beatmania), initially localized as Beatstage or Hiphopmania, is a discontinued series of Arcade DJ simulation music video games developed and distributed by Japanese game developer Konami and first released in December 1997, With every Beatmania game having its own slogan (eg. beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem: Blaze through the resort party!). It contributed largely to the boom of music games in 1998, and the series expanded not only with arcade sequels, but also moved to home consoles and other portable devices, achieving a million unit sales. The Bemani line of music games from Konami is named after the series, was first adopted in the arcade release of Beatmania 3rdMix and kept ever since. The series came to an end with the last game being Beatmania The Final, released in 2002.

In the international market, the series competed with the South Korean-developed EZ2DJ, another 5-key DJ simulation game, which Konami sued for copyright infringement relating to its gameplay similarity to Beatmania.