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Keyboardmania | |
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Developer(s) | Konami |
Publisher(s) | Konami |
Platform(s) | Arcade |
Release | 2000 |
Genre(s) | Music |
Mode(s) | Up to 2 players simultaneously |
Arcade system | Firebeat |
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.
There is also a simulator called DoReMi Mania,[1] which uses *.pms files, but the players can use a MIDI-to-pms converter to simplify editing.