Keyboardmania
Sign in to save(alternately KEYBOARD MANIA, and abbreviated KBM) is a rhythm video game created by the Bemani division of Konami. In this game up to two players use 24-key keyboards to play the piano or keyboard part of a selected song. Notes are represented on-screen by small bars that scroll downward above an image of the keyboard itself. The goal is to play the matching key when a note bar descends to the red play point line. The arcade cabinet has two screens - one for each player.
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Keyboardmania (alternately KEYBOARD MANIA, and abbreviated KBM) is a rhythm video game created by the Bemani division of Konami. In this game up to two players use 24-key keyboards to play the piano or keyboard part of a selected song. Notes are represented on-screen by small bars that scroll downward above an image of the keyboard itself. The goal is to play the matching key when a note bar descends to the red play point line. The arcade cabinet has two screens - one for each player.
- Released
- 2000
- Genres
- Music
- Platforms
- Arcade, PlayStation 2
- Developer
- Konami
- Publisher
- Konami
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Genre
- music video game
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Publisher
- Konami
- Developer
- Konami
- Platform
- Q10680
- Image
- Keyboardmania Cabinet.jpg
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- publication date
- 2000-01-01
- input device
- musical keyboard
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Arcade release
- Super linking session
- Home version
- Song lists
- Keyboardmania
- ''Keyboardmania 2ndMix''
- ''Keyboardmania 3rdMix''
- Notable songs
- Trivia
- External links
- References
(alternately KEYBOARD MANIA, and abbreviated KBM) is a rhythm video game created by the Bemani division of Konami. In this game up to two players use 24-key keyboards to play the piano or keyboard part of a selected song. Notes are represented on-screen by small bars that scroll downward above an image of the keyboard itself. The goal is to play the matching key when a note bar descends to the red play point line. The arcade cabinet has two screens - one for each player.
There is also a simulator called DoReMi Mania, which uses *.pms files, but the players can use a MIDI-to-pms converter to simplify editing.
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