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Dancing Stage is a series of music video games developed and published by Konami. It is a spin-off of Dance Dance Revolution for the European market as well as a few Japanese titles. Games were released for arcade, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and Wii.

European releases

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Dancing Stage is a music video game, developed by Konami, released in arcades on March 9, 1999. This game was released as Dance Dance Revolution in North America. It includes 13 songs: nine composed by Naoki Maeda, and four licenses. It uses the Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix engine. In North America, the game received a PlayStation port, which omits "Butterfly" and "Make It Better (So-Real Mix)". Songs in the arcade version include:

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"AM-3P" by kTz

"Boom Boom Dollar" by King Kong & D.Jungle Girls

"Brilliant 2U" by Naoki

"Brilliant 2U (Orchestra-Groove)" by Naoki

"Butterfly" by Smile.dk

"Have You Never Been Mellow" by The Olivia Project

"Make It Better" by mitsu-O! "Make It Better (So-Real Mix)" by mitsu-O! "My Fire" by X-Treme "PARANOiA" by 180 "Put Your Faith In Me" by UZI-LAY "Put Your Faith In Me (Jazzy Groove)" by UZI-LAY "Trip Machine" by De-Sire

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180, kTz, mitsu-O! and UZI-LAY and are pen names for Naoki Maeda. Songs with "Groove" or "Mix" in the title require certain criteria to be unlocked by the player.

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Dancing Stage Internet Ranking was released exclusively in Europe. It adds another three licensed covers, credited with the original artists: "It's Like That" (cover of Run–D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins) "Last Thing On My Mind by Step Ahead (cover of Steps) "Uh La La La" by Party All Night (cover of Alexia)

Dancing Stage EuroMix

Dancing Stage EuroMix was released in 2000, and is based on the Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix engine. It includes 28 tracks and can be expanded to a total of 34 tracks with Internet Ranking enabled. Contrary to 3rdMix, EuroMix does not use a PC Card. The game's console port was released for PlayStation on June 1, 2001 and contains 24 songs. It removes the Dancemania licenses and all but one song added in the Internet Ranking version, but adds five Konami Original songs.

Dancing Stage EuroMix 2

Dancing Stage EuroMix 2 was released in 2002, and is based on the DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution 7thMix engine. It includes 68 tracks, of which 52 are new and 16 are Konami originals from EuroMix. EuroMix 2 requires a PC Card and omits the Internet Ranking feature.

In contrast to EuroMix, there is no home version of EuroMix 2. However, Dancing Stage MegaMix features a similar interface. This game features 28 songs, including 11 Konami originals from EuroMix 2 and a remix of "Let the beat hit em!"

Dancing Stage Fusion

Dancing Stage Fusion is the first arcade release to be powered by the PlayStation 2 through a Bemani Python board. Despite the improved hardware, this game has fewer songs than its predecessor. Fusion features 49 songs, of which ten were available in previous Dancing Stage arcade releases, ten are from the arcade release of Dance Dance Revolution Extreme and seven are from older Japanese arcade releases. The remaining 21 songs premiered in Fusion: six are Konami Originals that later appeared in Dancing Stage SuperNova, while 15 are licenses that do not return in later arcade releases, with the exception of "Waiting For Tonight" by P.A.T's reappearance in Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova 2 and Dance Dance Revolution X.