Pop'n Music 16 PARTY, and offers DLC songs available for purchase. Pop'n Stage Pop'n Stage is a dancing game based around the Pop'n Music design and songs, with ten "switches" (four diagonals and a center on each side, just like Pump It Up's panel placement). It is a combination of Pop'n Music and Dance Dance Revolution, using Pop'n-style graphics with DDR-style gameplay. The game has a bright, colorful interface and machine design, and is considered easy compared to most other Bemani games. The game is also keysounded, similarly to Pop'n Music, meaning that missing a step will result in corresponding sounds in the song not being played. Pop'n Stage breaks up gameplay styles in an unconventional way compared to other dance games; the default single player mode uses 6-switches (corresponding to Pump It Up's half double; in other words, 6-switch mode does not use the four outer corners). Meanwhile, 10-switch mode is the default 2-player configuration on "Normal" and "Hard" modes (corresponding to 5-switches per person on each side, similar to Pump It Up's single player mode) and "Maniac" mode being similar to a single-player "double-play" mode. One upgrade kit was released for this franchise before being cancelled under the name "Pop'n Stage EX". This upgrade fixed a handful of gameplay issues from the first game, added new charts and "Expert mode" stages, and added songs from Pop'n Music 3 (as well as the song "Full Moon" by LITTLE CURE, which has never been used on another Bemani game since). Both versions of the game ran on Konami's "DJ Main" arcade hardware. Adaptation Pop'n Music Wakuwaku! Pop'n Manga See also Beat'n Groovy, the Xbox Live Arcade adaptation References External links Pop'n Music, Konami of Japan's website of the current version Pop'n World, Konami of Japan's former official Pop'n Music site. Konami - Pop'n Stage Top Solid State Squad pop'n division, an American Pop'n Score Tracking Site Bemanistyle.com, Major North American Bemani Site. Arcade video games Bemani games Konami franchises 1998 video games Music video games PlayStation 2 games Video game franchises introduced in 1998