Pump It Up 1st Dance Floor

Pump It Up 1st Dance Floor (also Pump It Up: The Ultimate Remix) is a dance simulation arcade game developed by Korean coin operated machine developer Andamiro. It is the first of Pump It Up series. It was released in October 1999, nearly a year after the release of Dance Dance Revolution.^[1]

Gameplay

Pump It Up 1st Dance Floor is to move players' feet on patterns, in response to incoming steps appeared from the bottom of the screen. Unlike Dance Dance Revolution, however, Pump It Up's dance pads have "X" panels with three different colors: red top left and top right, yellow center, and blue bottom left and bottom right. A player must rhythmically step on a panel matching the arrow on the screen to earn points and increase life gauge. The judgement is displayed on-screen depending on player's timing: Perfect, Great, Good, Bad and Miss. Perfect and Great slowly increase the life bar, but Bad and Miss decrease it; Good does no effect on the life bar. If the player allocates more Bads and Misses than otherwise and the life gauge is empty, the song automatically fails instantly and game ends. At the end of every song cleared, the players can see their number of judgements counted, number of combos, bonus score, and letter rating ranging from F to S.^[2]

There are four modes: single Easy or Hard, Double, Nonstop, and Battle. Easy mode limits to simpler step patterns for beginning players, but Hard mode limits to tougher steps. Two of these modes use 5-panel pads for either one or two players. Double mode enables a single player to use 10-panel pads. Battle mode, however, has four songs with very difficult step charts, but does not affect the life gauge.

Interface

Pump It Up 1st Dance Floor's interface displays only four choices in song jackets on every song selection menu. To select a song, the center yellow panel acts as a select panel. This feature has been used until Pump It Up 3rd Dance Floor Season Evolution. During the gameplay, unique background animations are played to add visual media behind the patterns and timing area.

Pump It Up 1st Dance Floor: New Tunes

First in-house musician introduces BanYa, the South Korean band working with Andamiro to compose original songs, but initially these songs were less than K-Pop songs. Significantly, K-Pop licensed songs were added to add more tracks in the song list and unique step patterns in the game. Several of them features popular K-Pop artists of 90's such as Clon, Novasonic, Sechskies, Yoo Seung-jun, Drunken Tiger, and Fin.K.L. They were to either popularize a song or to gain popularity of the dance game.

Original Licenses

K-Pop Licenses

References

External links

• Pump It Up official website