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  • Finish your drink if someone attempts a top-tier difficulty song and fails miserably.
  • Take a celeberatory drink every time a cabinet from outside of Asia gets registered to eAMUSEMENT.
  • Take a shot every time someone plays a VENUS song.
    • Take another if someone sings along to "Wow Wow VENUS".
      • Take yet another one if they chant "Wow Wow PENIS".
  • Take a sip every time someone plays "FLOWER". Remixes count.
    • Take two drinks if it's on a non-BEMANI game that FLOWER was crossed over to.
    • Take a longer sip if someone else on a differnt game plays "FLOWER" at the same time.
    • Finish the glass if "FLOWER" is being played on three or more games at once.
      • The above also applies to any song that crossed over to three or more games. Songs from franchise-wide eventsnote  don't count.
  • Every some someone plays "How to Cook Delicious Rice and the Effects of Eating Rice", take a drink while eating a bowl of rice. Alternatively, take a drink of sake (rice wine).
  • Take a drink every time a new Prim song is introduced.
  • Take a drink every time Konami introduces a PASELI-exclusive feature.
  • Take a drink every time you enter the wrong passcode when trying to log in.
  • Take a drink every time you see a Blue Screen of Death or some other Windows-related error message on a BEMANI cabinet.
    • Take three if you encountered an E-Amusement Network error.
  • Take a drink every time for every subsequent time the same song is played.
  • Every time DJ YOSHITAKA composes a song that is 185 BPM, drink 1.85 pints.
  • Take a drink every time a cabinet that is normally connected to eAMUSEMENT or other services replicating it is in offline mode.
  • Take a drink every time you forget to bring your eAMUSEMENT PASS with you to the arcade.
    • Take two extra if it's an arcade in Japan and you're therefore stuck with the limited-feature coin modes.
    • Finish your drink if you lose your eAMUSEMENT PASS.
  • In games where the scroll speed is tied to the song BPM, take a drink every time you break combo due to a tempo change.
    • Take another if the tempo change was only there for Fake Difficulty purposes. (Yes, this means you will be drinking a lot if you play DDR.)
    • Don't do this on "CHAOS", "Speed Star Kanade" or "Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!" unless you want to end up with liver damage.
  • Take a drink every time someone plays a Touhou Project song.
    • Take a second one if it's any of the following: "Bad Apple!! feat. nomico", "Tsuki ni Murakumo Hana ni Kaze", "Night of Nights", or any Touhou arrange by IOSYS.
  • Take a drink every time someone plays a HinaBitter song.
  • Take a drink every time a song's background animation or video distracts you. Take two more if it was because of fanservice.
  • Take a drink every time a gameplay-relevant part malfunctions (panels on DDR, buttons on most games, knobs on SDVX, etc.). Take another if it significantly impacts your score or clear status. Don't do this in an arcade outside of Japan if you value your liver.
  • Take a drink every time you play a song that's simply credited to "BEMANI Sound Team".
    • Take a drink if a song is credited to a BEMANI Sound Team artist but with an unknown alias.
  • Take a drink every time someone plays a Tokimeki Idol song.
    • Take another if someone complains about why it existed in a BEMANI game.
    • Take yet another drink if you play one of these songs while Tokimeki Idol is already offline.
  • If you're playing on a networked cab in the United States, take a drink every time you curse Konami and Round 1 USA for heavily limiting what American players can do in-game. Take two if the feature or song is available in all eAmuse-supported Asian regions but not in the US (for example, any non-Light Start option in Sound Voltex).

DanceDanceRevolution (Or, DrunkDrunkRevolution)

  • If two or more players argue over using the bar, start drinking and keep drinking until they stop.
  • Take a drink every time the official DanceDanceRevolution page gets a significant detail about the series wrongnote .
    • Down the bottle if they mistook a non-BEMANI dance game (e.g. Pump It Up) for DDR.
  • Take a drink if any of the panels aren't functioning correctly.
  • Take a drink every time someone compares the game to In the Groove or Pump It Up. Take another if this leads to a flamewar.
  • Take a drink every time you play a song with a scroll BPM that's double its actual BPM.
  • Take a drink every time you play a song has BPM changes for the sole purpose of screwing the player over.
    • Take another if these BPM changes don't appear in charts for the same song in other BEMANI games (e.g. "Elemental Creation", "New Decade").
  • Take a drink if you manage to hit the final, randomized corner jump at the end of "Tohoku EVOLVED".
    • Take a drink if you miss that final jump and you fail because of it.
  • Take a celebratory drink every time you get a Perfect Full Combo.
    • Take another if the chart was level 15 or higher.
    • Take an extra one if it's a Marvelous Full Combo.
  • Take a drink every time you or someone else plays "Butterfly". Remixes count.
  • If you get an Encore Extra Stage and it tells you to "ATTACK! PERFECT FULL COMBO," do not take any drinks until the song ends. You will lose if you're drunk.

beatmania

  • Take a shot every time a song ends in a Difficulty Spike.
  • Take a shot every time you finish with a 78% gauge.
  • Chug your drink every time somebody plays Xepher.
  • Take shots every time Michael a la Mode shouts "2DX Gold" in Gold Rush.
  • Take an additional shot if the player gets a grade of "A" or higher, but fails the song due to his/her Life Meter falling below the 80% requirement.
  • Take a shot every time someone who has complained about "denpa" in tricoro complains about "grimdark" songs in SPADA.
  • Take a shot of Everclear if Konami ever brings FLOOR INFECTION and POLICY BREAK again to IIDX.
  • Take a shot every time someone who couldn't clear 7th Dan clears 8th Dan.
  • Take a shot every time you start a song and forget to turn off Hard gauge by accident. Take an additional if it was Ex-Hard that you left on.
  • In Hazard mode, take two drinks for every song you clear.
  • Every time you see a fellow player reach Kaiden rank for the first time, buy the player some expensive champagne.
    • Down a bottle of champagne yourself if you reach Kaiden.
  • If "Himiko" is being played and someone mentions PABST BLUE RIBBON, pour the remainder of your drink over their head.
  • In SPADA, take a drink every time the announcer screams when you input the wrong passcode for your account.
  • Take a drink every time "Miracle 5ympho X" plays and someone shouts the "Oniichan!" sound clip.
    • When it gets to "MACHINE GUN", start drinking at the beginning of the rapid fire section and only stop when the player misses.
  • Take a drink every time you get caught by another player while playing with Assist mods.
  • Take a drink every time you miss a note due to Fanservice within the background video or overlay (e.g. the cleavage shot in "Last Message", Dai's dancing in various songs, Mamonis's Hotter and Sexier form in "Devilz Staircase")
  • Take a drink every time someone pronounces ".59" and "G59" as "point fifty nine" and "G fifty nine", respectively.
  • On "GAMBOL"'s Another charts, take a drink every time you get a BAD.
  • Take a drink every time you come to an arcade with PENDUAL thinking today is one particular space-time phase, but is actually the other one instead. Take another if this prevents you from progressing with unlocks.
  • On copula, take a drink every time you or someone else logs in using a Suica card.
  • Take a drink every time someone argues or memes about Rche's gender.

Popn Music

  • Take a drink every time someone calls a pop'n music song by its genre rather than its title. Two if it's "Nadeshiko Rock".
  • Take a drink every time someone complains about Lapistoria's scoring system.
    • Take a drink every time someone complains about Lapistoria's radical character redesigns.
  • Take a drink every time someone rants about New Wonderland's redesigned cabinet layout.
  • When playing with the Random or S-Random modifiers, take a drink every time you get a chord that are impossible without using your head, the rest of your arms, or really big hands.
  • Take a drink if you fail a song and it was not on the first stage (for the 2-stage guarantee), final stage, or extra stage, thereby wasting your credit.
  • Take a drink each time someone selects Angelion on EX...and doesn't even hit any of the buttons.

jubeat

  • Take a drink every time you get an EXCELLENT.
    • Take another if the chart was level 10.
    • If you're in a 4-player match and all of you get an EXCELLENT, split a bottle with the other players.
      • If everyone was playing a level 10 chart, invite them to go drinking with you at a bar, and pay for their drinks.
  • Take a drink if you Full Combo a song but fail to clear it.
  • In Hazard mode (activated by inserting another credit and turning on expert options), take two drinks if you clear a song in HAZARD.
  • Take a drink with your head sideways every time you or someone else plays "STELLAR WIND" on Extreme.
  • Every time you hit a panel and adjacent panel are also triggered, take a drink for each additional button. An additional one if this breaks your combo.

REFLEC BEAT

  • Take a drink every time you miss a Just Reflec'd note.
  • Take a drink every time you miss a TOP note.
  • Take a drink every time you have a higher score than your opponent but a lower Clear Rate, or vice versa.
  • Take a drink every time you try to Just Reflec a note, but fail even though you got a Just on it.
    • Also take a drink if you Just Reflec a note by accident.
  • Take a drink when someone cheeses a slide note by holding the entire area.
    • Take another drink if someone copmlains about the slide notes being too cheatable.

SOUND VOLTEX

  • Take a drink every time people argue about Touhou Project and VOCALOID arranges.
  • Take a glass of whiskey every time SOUND VOLTEX gets a new level 20 chart. Note that we said "glass of whiskey", not a shot.
  • Take a drink every time you fail by finishing a song with a 69%. If someone cracks a "69" joke, throw the bottle at them.
  • Take 6.66 shots when someone plays RoughSketch's 666.
  • Take a drink every time you or someone else within earshot plays "Nyan Cat". Take another if it's the Infinite chart.
  • Take a drink every time you try to discuss Rasis and someone thinks you're saying "racist".
  • Take a drink every time Analog notes take up more of the Max Chain than button notes. Take another drink if the chart is effected by Hirayasu Matsudo.
  • Take a drink if you forget to turn off Excessive Rate (after playing a track with it on) in Light Start.
    • Take a drink if you forget to turn on Excessive Rate in Standard Start.
  • Take a drink if you play a song for a prerequisite unlock in Blaster Gate with a barrier rank of 3.5 or higher (meaning every near will drain the blastive rate meter, watch out!)
  • Take a celebratory drink and sing the song if "Brain Power" gets revived in some form.
  • Take a drink if you failed to change the speed before the 999BPM section in "Speed Star Kanade"
    • Finish your drink if you failed the song miserably.
  • Take a shot every time you draw generator cards and got duplicates. (You'll probably get drunk fast.)
    • Down your bottle in sorrow if you get a duplicate PUR (Perfect Ultimate Rare).
  • If you're playing in the United States, toast when you fully charge the Blaster Gate gauge, then take another drink after you do your Barrier Track as you grumble about not having access to Blaster Start.

GITADORA

DanceMasters / DanceEvolution

  • Take a drink every time someone compares the game to other motion-based dance games (e.g. Dance Central, Just Dance).
  • DanceEvolution Arcade only:
    • Take a drink every time spectators join in on the routine.
      • 1 more drink if it's "Luka Luka★Night Fever" or "Happy Synthesizer".
      • 3.26 shots if it's the "She is my wife" dance.
    • Take a drink every time someone who is not playing steps into the sensor zone by accident.
      • Hit them with the bottle if they did it on purpose.
    • Take a drink every time someone moans about the sensor not picking up their moves.
    • Take a drink every time LOVE & JOY is played and the player follows all the (unjudged) cheerleader poses in the beginning.
    • Take a drink every time you finish a song in a CHALLENGE, the A grade starts glowing and it turns out that you only managed to get a AA grade and have to retry the song to get your AAA and advance.
      • Take a drink very time you set the difficulty to LIGHT to advance in a CHALLENGE.
      • Take another drink if you still can't get your AAA even on LIGHT.
    • If you're playing "Daisuke", take a drink for every spectator who mimics the hands-in-front-of-face pose.

BeatStream

  • Current rules:
    • Every time you see a BeatStream cabinet in person, take a drink to pay respects.
    • Every time someone plays a BeatStream song in SDVX, take a drink to pay respects. You may invite the player to pay respects too.
  • Old rules:
    • Take a drink if "FLOWER" gets crossed over to this game. (It took many months but it happened in June 2015, now go take 1.73 drinks)
    • Take a drink each time Series Mascot BisCo appears in a song's music video.
    • Finish your drink when this game goes offline on September 1, 2017.

MÚSECA

  • Current rule: Every time you see a Bishi Bashi Channel cabinet or an offline MÚSECA cabinet, take a drink to pay respects.
  • Old rules:
    • Take a drink if "FLOWER" gets crossed over to this game. (It took many months but it happened in March 2017, now go take 1.73 drinks)
    • Take a drink every time you fail a Grafica unlock at 95%, or worse, finish your drink if it's at 99%.

NOSTALGIA

  • Take a drink if "FLOWER" gets crossed over to this game. (in Piano form) (It took some months but it happened in August 2017, now go take 1.73 drinks)
  • Take a drink everytime you get a full combo.
    • Take three drinks everytime you score 1,000,000 in a song.
  • Take a drink once you encounter a story cutscene in the unlock chain.
  • Take a drink every time you play a Keyboardmania song. Take another if you've previously played it in Keyboardmania.

DANCERUSH

And last, but not least...

  • If you play current BEMANI games and see someone rant about Konami not making non-pachinko games anymore, finish your drink.

Alternative Title(s): Beatmania

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