History VideoGame / DJMAX

* Bruce Lee Clone -- The star of the Astro Fight MV.

* Bowdlerization -- The MV for Funky People was originally more smoother animated, but it also had large homosexual overtones, so the US version is changed although some of the original appears in the Song Select and MV screens.

** ''DJMAX Technika Tune'' -- A sort of GaidenGame to a GaidenGame, released on the 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.

* Main/Bowdlerization -- The MV for Funky People was originally more smoother animated, but it also had large homosexual overtones, so the US version is changed although some of the original appears in the Song Select and MV screens.

* IdiosynactricDifficultyLevels -- The originals do have normal difficulty names, "Normal Style"(NM), "Hard Style"(HD), but then it reaches "Maximum Style"(MX). Portable 3 has Turntable Set (TS), Sampler Set (SS), and Workstation Set (WS). Technika Tune uses the game modes as difficulty leves (Star, Pop, and Club)

* AffectionateParody: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUtBq5okZls Someone at Pentavision]] is playing too much ''LeagueOfLegends''.

** This troper has never even played Technika before, but does that thing described. I view it as training for the real thing.

** ''DJMAX Portable Clazziquai Edition''. Interestingly, like the single-band-centric ''GuitarHero'' games, Clazziquai isn't the only licensed band to appear in the game; other licensed musicians include [=015B=], Garion, and Cooly's Hot Box.

* Bowdlerization -- The MV for Funky People was originally more smoother animated, but it also had large homosexual overtones, so the US version is changed although some of the original appears in the Song Select and MV screens.

* Multiplayer -- The two new modes in ''Technika 2'' are essentially this in different variants.

Though it should be noted that the DJMAX team seemed to have gotten fed up with this, as they have quit Neowiz, and have created Nurijoy. Under this new name, the team created two {{SpiritualSuccessor}}s to DJMAX. One is known as VideoGame/BeatcraftCYCLON, an arcade game that has gameplay similar to Mai Mai. The other is called VideoGame/SuperbeatXONIC for the PS Vita, which Nurijoy hopes to release worldwide.

Though it should be noted that the DJMAX team seemed to have gotten fed up with this, as they have quit Neowiz, and have created Nurijoy. Under this new name, the team created SpiritualSucessors to DJMAX. One is known as VideoGame/BeatcraftCYCLON, an arcade game that has gameplay similar to Mai Mai. The other is called VideoGame/SuperbeatXONIC for the PS Vita, which Nurijoy hopes to release worldwide.

*** Except if you know where to look. Sometimes crews design [[SelfImposedChallenge "Low Score Attack"]] courses, wherein the director of the course intentionally got as ''low'' a score as they could without failing. Challengers are intended to try and score even lower, but the game still counts a higher score as a win and a lower score as a loss. As an added bonus, the extra challenge of skirting failure encourages the players making these courses to use easier songs than they normally would play. ''Not so fast. There are low score sets which use those 8-10 difficulty songs people have been avoiding.'' Umm... some people even use EFFECTORS in conjunction with those 8-10 difficulty songs.
* NonIndicativeDifficulty -- Some of the SP charts in ''Technika'' are ''easier'' than their TP counterparts. "HEXAD" [SP] is regarded by some to be easier as a result of the easier beginning and ending.

* BadExportForYou -- The original ''Technika'''s Platinum Crew updates, in the overseas version, trailed the Korean verison's updates by a year. ''Technika 2'' corrects this so now players outside of Korea get updates at the same time.

* ExecutiveMeddling -- Forte Escape, the producer of ''DJMAX Trilogy'', left Pentavision sometime last year[[strike:, leaving ''Trilogy'' update-less since April 2009]]. Not anymore. Two song updates this year, yeah.

* ''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 {{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 a song whose background animations mocked former U.S. President GeorgeWBush).

* TakeThat -- The MV for "Dreadnought" makes fun of GeorgeWBush. When ''DJMAX Portable'' got an "International" release with English text, [[{{Bowdlerise}} it got replaced by a different song]].

The ''Technika'' series is set to have a PlayStationVita release titled ''DJMAX Technika Tune'' during summer 2012, taking advantage of the system's touch screen features. The game will have a new "Tune" feature using the Vita's back touch pad, although details as to what it actually does are scant. Due to the small screen of the Vita, the number of lanes has been reduced from 4 to 3, and every song will have new charts to accomodate this change.

* OhCrap -- Encountering a boss song that players either find very difficult or are unfamiliar with will evoke this. Even if you play a set consisting of nothing but NM charts, you might be unlucky enough to run into something like Cypher Gate.

** Also a common reaction for ''Technika'' players doing Randomizer whenever [[ThatOneBoss That One Song]] decides to show up.

* LicensedGame -- ''DJMAX Portable Clazziquai Edition''. Interestingly, like the single-band-centric ''GuitarHero'' games, Clazziquai isn't the only licensed band to appear in the game; other licensed musicians include [=015B=], Garion, and Cooly's Hot Box.

* ''DJMAX Online'' -- The original game, released as a freeware game on PC with additional pay-to-play content. The game plays suspiciously like ''{{beatmania}}'', though this is due to be being a [[FollowTheLeader clone]] of ''[=Ez2DJ=]'', which was even more like ''beatmania'' (complete with turntable) to the point where {{Creator/Konami}} [[ScrewedByTheNetwork stepped in and sued]]. Suffers from a partial case of NoExportForYou; you couldn't play the Korean version since you need a Korean residence number (which is a ''crime'' to falsify); you could play the Japanese and Chinese versions, but the Japanese version... is... well... [[CaptainObvious in Japanese]], with mostly Japanese players (which means good luck communicating to other players if you don't speak nihongo), and the Chinese version ran on a rather slow server. The latter two versions shut down some time ago.

* ''DJMAX Online'' -- The original game, released as a freeware game on PC with additional pay-to-play content. The game plays suspiciously like ''{{beatmania}}'', though this is due to be being a [[FollowTheLeader clone]] of ''[=Ez2DJ=]'', which was even more like ''beatmania'' (complete with turntable) to the point where {{Konami}} [[ScrewedByTheNetwork stepped in and sued]]. Suffers from a partial case of NoExportForYou; you couldn't play the Korean version since you need a Korean residence number (which is a ''crime'' to falsify); you could play the Japanese and Chinese versions, but the Japanese version... is... well... [[CaptainObvious in Japanese]], with mostly Japanese players (which means good luck communicating to other players if you don't speak nihongo), and the Chinese version ran on a rather slow server. The latter two versions shut down some time ago.