Beatmania (2006 video game)

Beatmania is a music video game and part of the "beatmania IIDX" series. Designed for the North American market, it was the only "beatmania IIDX" game released in the region until the arcade release of "beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE" in 2020. It was released by Konami for the PlayStation 2 on March 28, 2006.
Reception.
Writing for PSX Extreme, Cavin Smith viewed "Beatmania" as an entry in the "Beatmania IIDX" series, since it featured similar gameplay revolving around seven keys and a turntable. G4's video game show "X-Play" gave the game 2/5 stars, declaring that the game was a rip-off of the then-recently released "Guitar Hero".