Beatmania 6th Mix: The UK Underground Music

Manufacturer: Konami
Year: 2001
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Skill
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: unique
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Either
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Piano Keyboard: 5 keys (3 white, 2 black)
Turntable

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

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Beatmania 6th Mix: The UK Underground Music Control Panel Image

Beatmania 6th Mix: The UK Underground Music Description

Follow along with the song by scratching the turntable and pressing the keys as the bars reach the bottom of the screen. If you manage to successfully hit each note on-key perfectly, a combo meter will go up, increasing your score. Do well enough by the end of the song, and you can progress to the next level.

Cabinet Information

The title appears on the marquee as 'beatmania' (all lowercase).

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Different codes can be entered to enable harder modes such as 'hidden' (notes disappear one third of the way from the bottom) or 'sudden' (notes appear one third of the way from the bottom) or 'stealth' (notes are invisible, a combination of the two).

Game Introduction

Do you have what it takes to be a master DJ? Then show your stuff in this music-simon says game by Konami. This time around, the game's music was all pulled from UK/British artists.

Game Play

Start by selecting a song, then attempt to match the notes by pressing the keys and scratching the turntable in time to the music. Perform well enough, and you can continue to the next stage!

VAPS Arcade Census

There are 7,003 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 4,025 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 65,382 machines (3,803 unique titles).

Very Rare - There is one known instance of this machine owned by a Beatmania 6th Mix: The UK Underground Music collector .It is an original dedicated machine (not another machine converted with a kit).

Wanted - No members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. [More Information]

Trivia

This is the most popular arcade DJ game according to the "Guinness Book of World Records."

If you wish to play a freeware PC version of the game, go to http://www.vintagegaming.com/ which has a section for the simulator.

Legacy

Beatmania
Beatmania 2nd Mix
Beatmania 3rd Mix
Beatmania 4th Mix ~Time To Get Down~
Beatmania 5th Mix ~The Beat Goes On~
Beatmania 6th Mix: The UK Underground Music

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