History VideoGame / Beatmania

** {{Wrath}}: STN... another mech soldier [[spoiler: whose armor falls off in another boss song to reveal the true demon]]. AKA [[spoiler: Tatsh]]\\

* BellyDancer: "Expanded!!" from ''IIDX 25 Cannon Ballers'' features a couple of dancers in its video, fitting well with the "Middle Eastern Twerk" genre for the song.

** Runs on new hardware, with proper UsefulNotes/HighDefinition support.

* UsefulNotes/HighDefinition: Although the arcade ''IIDX'' series uses widescreen monitors, only in ''tricoro'' did the series actually support proper [=720p=] HD; prior to that, the game was rendered at 640x480, and stretched out by the display to make it widescreen. The [=PlayStation 2=] releases also allowed the game to be rendered in this way for widescreen televisions (giving the gameplay screen its arcade layout, rather than a compressed, [=4:3=]-optimized version). Although the new Lightning cabinets on ''HEROIC VERSE'' have [=1080p=] displays, the game was upscaled until ''Resident'' (which updated the engine's native resolution to full HD).

** The subversion is averted for "Vermillion" (Sirius ending theme, debuting on Resort Anthem) and "The Last Striker" (DJ Troopers ending theme, debuting on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 version), which got their own dedicated videos when they became playable tracks (although the latter is a ClipShow of generic videos).

* AscendedGlitch: The song "GAMBOL" was notorious for an infamous bug that gave it [[HitboxDissonance unusually small timing windows]]. It was fixed for the arcade version of Happy Sky; the Normal difficulty was the fixed version, and Hyper contained the glitched one. But then, Konami decided to troll players further on RED CS with a new [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giiNrvgclX4 Another]] chart... which makes it even ''worse.''

* AscendedMeme: Some ''Beatmania'' [=DJs=] themselves use the term "Nidera (弐寺)" instead of Two-D-X when talking about the IIDX series, and Ryu☆ described himself in the [[http://www.konami.jp/bemani/popn/music17/mc/song14/handz..html comments]] for ''Second Heaven'' as "That 'Somebody Scream!'guy" as a result of Misheard Lyrics.

* GuideDangIt: In versions of ''IIDX'' up until ''HAPPY SKY'', Another charts didn't get their own ratings, so you had to be prepared for anything from a mildly more difficult chart than the Hyper/7keys/14keys chart to something you would see on a 10th Dan course, unless you resorted to guides or chart databases; you were effectively risking your credit by playing Another charts, unless it was a console release. From ''HAPPY SKY'' onwards, Another charts have their own ratings.