History VideoGame / DJMAX

** "NB Ranger: Virgin Force" has NB Red doing his usual thing, although the rest of his team is suspiciously absent. After he gets chased out of town by an angry mob (supposedly his victims), he [[CrashIntoHello runs into a girl]] and has a brief ImagineSpot of living a relatively normal life with her, including [[BabiesEverAfter a kid]]. [[FloatingAdviceReminder Ghosts of his team]] show up to snap him out of his delusion and encourage NB Red to blast the girl with their superweapon. [[spoiler:Turns out she was actually a {{Kaiju}}, which NB Red and the ghosts of the others promptly fight with their HumongousMecha.]]

* ''[=DJMAX=] Portable'' -- By far the most popular ''[=DJMAX=]'' series, partly for being one of the first--if not ''the'' first--successful portable RhythmGame series. Originally released on ([[SuperTitle64Advance as its title implies]]) the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]] in 2006, it saw success not only in Korea, but [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff non-Korean countries]] as well, leading to an "International" release with English text (albeit with [[SoundEffectBleep poorly-censored songs]] and the replacement of the song ''Dreadnought'', whose background animations mocked former U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush).

** ''[=DJMAX=] Technika Tune'' -- A sort of GaidenGame to a GaidenGame, released on the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita in 2012. While the touch screen allows for standard Technika gameplay, the rear pad allows players to perform hold notes and repeat notes without letting go of the Vita. Due to the small screen, the number of lanes on screen is reduced to 3 from 4, with brand-new charts to match.

** ''Tap Sonic BOLD'' -- Released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on October 2018 (but technically still in Early Access), ''BOLD'' eschews the usual touch screen gameplay in favor of a home row key layout (SDF and JKL), much like the original ''[=DJMAX=] Online'' and ''[=DJMAX=] Trilogy''.

* ''[=DJMAX=] Respect V'' -- An UpdatedRerelease of ''[=DJMAX=] Respect'' for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvRIC9Vx7BY teased]] on November 2019, with [[https://youtu.be/2-x8-QbKGUA?t=1812 the official trailer]] following shortly after. Released as an Early Access title on December 19, 2019, with the official release sometime in Q1 2020. Mostly a direct port of ''Respect''[='=]s base game, save for the returning [[HarderThanHard Super Crazy difficulty]], which features charts designed specifically for keyboards. The game also supports 7 player online play, a la ''[=DJMAX=] Online'', and a 1v1 "Ladder Match" mode that forces both players to play a song of the game's choosing. Lastly, the new "Air Mode" adds a ''Website/NicoNicoDouga''-like chat overlay over the music video, and an optional Autoplay mode can be enabled, should the player simply wish to socialize with their audience. This particular version was later released for UsefulNotes/XboxOne on July 7th, 2022, and was also added to the Xbox Game Pass lineup.

Though it should be noted that the [=DJMAX=] team has quit Neowiz, and have created Nurijoy. Under this new name, the team created two {{Spiritual Successor}}s to [=DJMAX=]. One is known as Beatcraft CYCLON, an arcade game that has gameplay similar to VideoGame/{{maimai}}. The other is called Superbeat XONIC for the PS Vita (which contains all the songs from CYCLON plus a few new ones, and songs from Creator/ArcSystemWorks games), which Nurijoy released worldwide. A version of XONIC on UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne (with a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version upcoming as indicated by the ESRB's website) with all the Vita version's DLC songs (minus the Arcsys songs, and Rackin Gravity, which the latter was later added as free DLC), and new DLC to be released as well, with the Switch version getting the first 2 packs free.

** Everything can be unlocked at some point simply by racking up the number of songs played, avoiding [[PermanentlyMissableContent impossible-to-unlock]] songs (For example, in ''Respect'', unlocking MASAI for playing 10 online matches when the lack of a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork PlayStation Plus]] subscription makes that impossible).

* BrandX: In ''Respect V'', the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable that was depicted on loading screens for ''Portable'', ''Portable 2'' and ''Portable 3'' songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1vDHHA7tos had its design genericized.]]

* CensoredForComedy: Some DLC missions in ''Respect'' use a gameplay modifier that causes the screen to get more and more pixellated the higher the player's combo climbs. A later update made this a Fader modifier in other game modes, calling it "Pixel". There's also a "Pixel 2" modifier that makes the pixellation ''even worse'', to the point where the game looks like something that came out of the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 era. Playing anything harder than 4 button mode becomes an exercise in futility when everything is an unidentifiable, jumbled mess.

** ''Respect V'' requires a persistent internet connection to UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} to play, even in single-player. The game also refuses to continue running if its bundled anti-cheat software, [=XIGNCODE3=], is tampered with.

*** The first, and so far, only [=DJMAX=] game on a [[UsefulNotes/PS4 console.]]

*** The "Mirror" modifier, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin mirrored the chart from left to right]], and the "Random" modifier, which [[LuckBasedMission shuffled the song's notes around]], were both also removed - probably to dodge the issue of attempting to press left and right on the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 DualShock 4]]'s d-pad at the same time.

*** The only game so far to have paid DLC. (''Technika Tune'' on the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita was supposed to have it too, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen but that got canned]].)

* ProductPlacement: In the Korean, Japanese and East Asian versions of ''Respect'', the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeNk6oN65dY "Only On"]] can be downloaded for free. You know, just in case it wasn't obvious what [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 platform]] the game was on.