Pump It Up Fiesta
Pump it Up Fiesta (also titled 2010 Fiesta or Pump it Up 10th Anniversary Edition) is a coin operated video arcade dance machine. Fiesta is the 22nd arcade game release in the Pump It Up series, released in Mexico on March 6, 2010. Fiesta's theme is a celebration of the Pump It Up series' 10th anniversary, following the release of 1st Dance Floor in 1999. Fiesta EX (or 2011 Fiesta, the series' 23rd release), an expanded version of the original Fiesta, was released on early 2011. Both versions boast an innovative dual interface system that allows for improved personalized customization options that is easily accessible to all level of players. In addition, Fiesta EX features enhanced upgrade Quest World and Rush Mode. Rush mode is a returning pump feature that allows players to increase intensity and speed by controlling the velocity configurations.
New to the Fiesta series are two new mission modes (Quest World and Skill Up Zone), "Short Cut" song edits, consisting of Pump It Up originals and specialty tracks under one minute in length, various new battle modes, and a new interface which allows a player to play nearly everything in the game in one credit in an expanded "Arcade Station". Andamiro's promotional advertising promises users the future ability to create custom stepcharts for existing songs in the game. Traditional difficulty modes (Normal, Hard, Crazy, Freestyle, Nightmare, Another) have been abolished in favor of a system that allows a variety of charts organized by single/double, performance, and listed by order of escalating difficulty. This system allows many more available charts for individual songs than in the past. For example, Sorceress Elise, one of the new songs, has eight "single" (one side) charts, with levels 4/6/8/10/15/18/21/23. Three of the new songs in Fiesta are songs created exclusively for Pump It Up, expanding the line of Pump It Up originals to more artists outside of BanYa Production, Yahpp, and msgoon.
The games helped in a minor way to popularize several K-Pop artists of the time (especially in Latin America, where the game is more popular), as many of their songs appeared in the game. Fiesta included 2NE1's hit Fire, Kara's Wanna as well as popular Korean music from the early 2000s in favor of the celebrational theme. Fiesta EX greatly expanded the line with popular bands of the time, most notably Shinee and Orange Caramel among many others. A sequel, Pump It Up Fiesta 2, was released on November 2012, paralleling the release of Pump It Up Infinity, a spin-off American Pump game succeeding the Pro series.
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Pump it Up Fiesta: New Tunes