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Dance

You follow a song with your whole body, stepping on arrows on a dance mat or copying moves in front of a camera or with a motion controller, and the game scores your accuracy.

Also known as: dance game, dancing game, dance video game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1998
    Origin

    Dance Dance Revolution (Konami, 1998), with its arrow mat, defined the genre and had many imitators; earlier, Dance Aerobics (1987) was already played by stepping on the NES Power Pad.

    Rhythm game (Wikipedia)
  2. 2009

    Just Dance, played with motion controllers, goes on to outsell Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

    Rhythm game (Wikipedia)

Reference games

1998

Dance Dance Revolution

Konami (Bemani). arcade, PlayStation

You step on four arrows on a mat when the arrows rising up the screen reach the step zone. Each step is judged from «Perfect» to «Miss», and a dance gauge decides whether you finish the song.