DDR Games List: Arcade and Home Releases in Order
The 19 arcade versions of Dance Dance Revolution by year, the console games by platform for Japan, North America and Europe, and what Konami still runs.
The newest Dance Dance Revolution game is DanceDanceRevolution World, the arcade version Konami began switching on in June 2024 and still updates.
At home the choice is thin. The one version Konami still runs is DanceDanceRevolution Grand Prix, a Windows PC service on its Japanese site. The last console game was DanceDanceRevolution II on the Wii in 2011, so every PlayStation, Xbox, GameCube and Wii game below is one to look for second-hand.
The arcade list and the Japanese home list come from Konami’s own pages: its 20th anniversary timeline, its product pages and the official site of each recent version. We could not find current Konami pages for its North American and European console games. For those we used RemyWiki, the wiki kept by players of Konami’s music games, checked against Wikipedia’s list of Dance Dance Revolution games and its articles on the individual games. One year the two could not agree on is left out.
Arcade versions in order
Konami’s timeline and product pages show nineteen main versions.
| Year | Version | What Konami says about it |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | DanceDanceRevolution | The first arcade game, played with the feet on four panels |
| 1999 | DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX | Twice as many songs, and a Step Battle mode for two dancers |
| 1999 | DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX | Nonstop mode, and the whole song list replaced with 38 new songs |
| 2000 | DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX | More than 40 new songs, over 120 in all |
| 2001 | DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX | The first long-version songs, and the first charts where the arrows pause |
| 2001 | DDRMAX -DanceDanceRevolution 6thMIX- | Freeze Arrows and the Groove Radar arrive |
| 2002 | DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX- | Foot ratings return, with songs from before DDRMAX |
| 2002 | DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME | More than 240 songs; Konami calls it the sum of the series to that point |
| 2006 | DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA | Three years after EXTREME, more than 330 songs, launched worldwide |
| 2007 | DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 | Enjoy Level unlocks and a Workout calorie counter |
| 2008 | DanceDanceRevolution X | Shock Arrows, which you must not step on |
| 2010 | DanceDanceRevolution X2 | A new song-select screen, and payment with Konami’s PASELI e-money |
| 2011 | DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX | 2ndMIX rebuilt inside it as a play mode |
| 2013 | DanceDanceRevolution | A white cabinet, and a mode select made easy for first-time players |
| 2016 | DanceDanceRevolution A | Electronic dance music as the sound concept, and a new interface |
| 2019 | DanceDanceRevolution A20 | Released first on the gold 20th anniversary cabinet |
| 2020 | DanceDanceRevolution A20 PLUS | A level check that suggests a difficulty and songs to beginners |
| 2022 | DanceDanceRevolution A3 | Switch between Single and Double while choosing a song |
| 2024 | DanceDanceRevolution WORLD | A restyled interface, song filters and a Flare Skill rank |
The years are the ones on Konami’s Japanese timeline and sites. The version called simply DanceDanceRevolution appears twice, in 1998 and in 2013.
Arcade offshoots
Konami’s timeline also lists these smaller arcade releases in Japan:
- 1998: Internet Ranking Version.
- 1999: 2ndMIX Link Version, two Club Versions that linked the machine to beatmania IIDX, Solo Bass Mix, Solo 2000, Karaoke Mix, Dancing Stage featuring True Kiss Destination and Dancing Stage featuring Dreams Come True.
- 2000: 3rdMIX Plus, Karaoke Mix 2, Dancing Stage featuring Disney’s Rave, DanceDanceRevolution Kids and 4thMIX Plus.
Outside Japan some machines carried other names. RemyWiki lists DanceDanceRevolution USA for North America. In Europe the arcade games were Dancing Stage, Dancing Stage EuroMix, EuroMix 2, Fusion and SuperNOVA, and from DanceDanceRevolution X onwards the wiki lists them under the same name as everywhere else.
Home games in Japan
From Konami’s timeline, which runs from 1999 to 2010, plus the PC service it still operates.
| Platform | Games and year |
|---|---|
| PlayStation | DanceDanceRevolution (1999), 2ndReMIX (1999), 2ndReMIX Append Club Version vol.1 and vol.2 (1999), Dancing Stage featuring True Kiss Destination (1999), Dancing Stage featuring Dreams Come True (2000), 3rdMIX (2000), Oha Suta DanceDanceRevolution (2000), Disney’s Rave (2000), Best Hits (2000), 4thMIX (2001), Extra Mix (2001), 5thMIX (2001) |
| Dreamcast | 2ndMIX Dreamcast Edition (2000), Club Version Dreamcast Edition (2000) |
| Game Boy Color | DanceDanceRevolution GB (2000), GB 2 (2000), Oha Suta DanceDanceRevolution GB (2001), GB 3 (2001), GB Disney Mix (2001) |
| Nintendo 64 | DanceDanceRevolution Disney Dancing Museum (2000) |
| PlayStation 2 | DDRMAX (2002), DDRMAX2 (2003), EXTREME (2003), Party Collection (2003), DDR Festival (2004), STR!KE (2006), SuperNOVA (2007), SuperNOVA 2 (2008), X (2009) |
| GameCube | DanceDanceRevolution with Mario (2005) |
| Wii | Hottest Party (2007), Furu Furu Party (2008), Music Fit (2010) |
| Mobile phones | i-appli (2001), EZweb (2001), EZ appli (2009), DanceDanceRevolution S for iOS (2009), later on Windows Mobile and Android |
| Handheld and plug-in TV toys | Bemani Pocket Finger Step (1999), Hello Kitty (1999), Dear Daniel (2000) and Winnie the Pooh (2000), Fami Mat (2001), My First DanceDanceRevolution, Toys “R” Us version (2006) |
| Windows PC | DanceDanceRevolution Grand Prix (2021) |
Home games in North America
Titles and platforms from RemyWiki’s list, with years that match Wikipedia’s.
| Platform | Games and year |
|---|---|
| PlayStation | DanceDanceRevolution (2001), Disney Mix (2001), Konamix (2002) |
| PlayStation 2 | DDRMAX (2002), DDRMAX2 (2003), Extreme (2004), Extreme 2 (2005), SuperNOVA (2006), SuperNOVA 2 (2007), Disney Channel Edition (2008), X (2008), X2 (2009) |
| PlayStation 3 | DanceDanceRevolution (2010) |
| Xbox | Ultramix (2003), Ultramix 2 (2004), Ultramix 3 (2005), Ultramix 4 (2006) |
| Xbox 360 | Universe (2007), Universe 2 (2007), Universe 3 (2008), DanceDanceRevolution (2011) |
| GameCube | Mario Mix (2005) |
| Wii | Hottest Party (2007), Hottest Party 2 (2008), Disney Grooves (2009), Hottest Party 3 (2009), DanceDanceRevolution (2010), DanceDanceRevolution II (2011) |
| Windows PC | DanceDanceRevolution (2002), Classroom Edition (2012, sold only to schools) |
| iOS | DanceDanceRevolution S (2009), Dance Wars (2013), Pocket Edition (2013) |
| Plug-in TV games | Strawberry Shortcake (2006), Disney Mix (2006), My First DanceDanceRevolution |
Home games in Europe
In Europe the series was sold as Dancing Stage for most of its life. RemyWiki notes that the Winx Club game of 2009 was the first console release there to use the DanceDanceRevolution name.
| Platform | Games and year |
|---|---|
| PlayStation | Dancing Stage EuroMix (2001), Disney Mix (2001), Party Edition (2002), Fever (2003), Fusion (2004) |
| PlayStation 2 | Dancing Stage MegaMix (2003), Fever (2003), Fusion (2004), Max (2005), SuperNOVA (2007), SuperNOVA 2 (2008) |
| PlayStation 3 | DanceDanceRevolution New Moves (2011) |
| Xbox | Three Dancing Stage games, the European counterparts of Ultramix (2004), Ultramix 2 (2005) and Ultramix 3 (2006) |
| Xbox 360 | Dancing Stage Universe (2007), Universe 2 (2008) |
| GameCube | Dancing Stage Mario Mix (2005) |
| Wii | Dancing Stage Hottest Party (2008), DanceDanceRevolution Winx Club (2009), Hottest Party 2 (2009), Hottest Party 3 (2010), Hottest Party 4 (2011), Hottest Party 5 (2011) |
What you can play today
In an arcade: DanceDanceRevolution World
Konami’s product page calls World the latest game in the series, and its launch notice described a worldwide rollout, with each cabinet switching over once its update finished. The official site is still posting new songs and events.
Konami’s arcade locator finds machines by region, but only inside Japan. In Europe the UK distributor Electrocoin lists a Dance Dance Revolution World cabinet from Konami for arcade operators. Anywhere else, ask the arcade which version it runs before you travel for it.
On a PC: DanceDanceRevolution Grand Prix
Grand Prix is the arcade game delivered through Konaste, Konami’s service for playing its arcade titles at home. Konami’s requirements page names a desktop PC running Windows 11 and nothing else.
You need a KONAMI ID and an e-amusement pass, which can be a virtual one. A Free Play mode lets you check that the game runs, with a selection of songs on the easiest single-player charts. The Basic Course costs 1,628 yen including tax and opens Grand Prix play, the mode with the series back catalogue. Other modes are paid for with tickets.
It plays from a keyboard, and Konami sells a dedicated dance controller for it. The site, the sign-up and PASELI, the e-money Konami uses for payment, are all in Japanese. The pages we read do not say whether the service can be used from other countries, so find that out before you spend anything.
On a shelf: the Classic Mini
DanceDanceRevolution Classic Mini is a one-fifth-size copy of the 1998 cabinet, made by the Japanese company Zuiki under licence from Konami. You play it with your fingers, it connects to a television over HDMI, and its songs come mainly from the first three arcade versions. Zuiki says Konami’s dance controller can be plugged in to play with your feet, and that the mini’s own stage works as a controller for Grand Prix. Zuiki announced it for general sale in 2024 at 49,500 yen including tax.
What is not there
We searched Steam, Google Play and the App Store for the name and found no Dance Dance Revolution game from Konami on any of them. There is no version for current consoles on the lists above either.
If a phone is what you have, we went through the alternatives in our list of rhythm games for Android. One of them plays arrow charts in the DDR style and accepts a dance mat.
Quick answers
What is the newest DDR game?
DanceDanceRevolution World, an arcade game from 2024. The newest version you can play at home is DanceDanceRevolution Grand Prix on Windows PC, which started in 2021.
Which DDR games came out on PS2?
Nine in North America: DDRMAX, DDRMAX2, Extreme, Extreme 2, SuperNOVA, SuperNOVA 2, Disney Channel Edition, X and X2. Japan had nine of its own and Europe had six under the Dancing Stage name.
Which DDR games are on the Wii?
Six in North America: Hottest Party, Hottest Party 2, Hottest Party 3, Disney Grooves, DanceDanceRevolution and DanceDanceRevolution II. The last of those, from 2011, is the most recent console game in the series.
Is there a DDR game on Steam?
No. A search of Steam for the name turns up nothing from Konami. Konami’s own PC version, Grand Prix, runs through its Konaste service.
Is Dancing Stage the same as Dance Dance Revolution?
Yes. Dancing Stage was the name used in Europe, and on a few licensed spin-offs in Japan.
