Pop'n Music
Pop’n Music (ポップンミュージック), developed by Bemani and published by Konami, is the first title in the Pop’n Music series.
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★Release Information
Release date: September 28th, 1998
★General Information
Pop’n Music ran on the same hardware as Beatmania, the BEMANI DJ-MAIN HARDWARE arcade system, and would go on to use this hardware until Pop’n Music 3 as well as Pop’n Stage. The game also saw the appearance of two of the composers who worked on Beatmania, Reo Nagumo and Hiroshi Takeyasu. Pop’n Music also marked the first appearances of some of Bemani’s more recognisable artists, including Tomonori Ikeda, Kiyotaka Sugimoto, and Sanae Shintani.
The game had three different game modes: Beginner, Normal, and Excite. Beginner mode is the easiest of the three difficulties, in which the player can only play as Mimi or Nyami and there are only two stages as opposed to the usual three. Normal mode is the standard mode, in which there are three stages and rival characters will block/interrupt gameplay with an ojama-like effect. Excite mode is the final game mode and is very similar to Normal mode except ojamas are triggered throughout the song at random.
★Non-Rival Characters
Mimi ★
Nyami ★
Mary ★
The King
★Song List
Click on a song title to watch gameplay of that song
★Regional Differences
Pop’n Music contains many regional differences.
- The game has four different releases: Japanese, Asian, Korean, and Taiwanese. Both the Korean and Taiwanese version are based on the Asian version, so the three versions do not contain many differences.
- The Japanese release uses the 1986-1998 Konami logo whereas the Asian/Korean/Taiwanese releases use the 1998-2003 logo
- Various song titles, artist names, and song genres were changed in the Asian/Korean/Taiwanese releases, including:
- J-TEKNO → J-TECHNO
- Hi-Tekno (both the song and artist) → Hi-Techno
- ANIME HERO → CARTOON HERO
- The theme of GAMBLER Z (TATAKAE! GAMBLER Z) → The theme from GAMBLER Z (Go for it! GAMBLER Z)
- ORIGINAL SOUND TRACKS → ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK
- すれちがう二人 (Surechigau futari) → Love passes by
- Various character names were changed in the Asian/Korean/Taiwanese releases, including:
- Rie♥chan → Carrie♥
- Shollkee → Ken
- Don Mommy → Don
- Toru Kamikaze → Toru
- Sanae♥chan → Jacqui♥
- Various visual changes were made in the Asian/Korean/Taiwanese releases, including:
- The background of Electronic Fill was replaced by a red version of the background for Quick Master
- Japanese text on the Mode Select screen were translated to english
- “Tonight stats” on the results screen was changed to “Tonight’s stats”
- The colon in the stage number was removed on various screens (Stage: 1 → Stage 1)
- “Entry your name” on the name entry screen was changed to “Enter your name”
- “Congratulation!” on the total result screen was changed to “Congratulations!” as well as changing “All stage cleared!!” to “All stages cleared!”
- The text in Mary and Rave girl’s Miss/Lose animations was changed from “My God” to “@*#%” in the Asian/Korean/Taiwanese releases
- The “さっちゃーん！♥ (Sacchan!♥)” and “トオルー♥ (Toru!♥)” text from Toru Kamikaze’s Faver/Jam animations were removed in the Asian/Korean/Taiwanese releases
- The Korean release does not include I REALLY WANT TO HURT YOU, The theme from GAMBLER Z, and すれちがう二人, though their characters are still playable
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