User:EXonyte/List of Pump It Up games

The 1st Dance Floor (Arcade)
Released: August 1999

Available game modes: Easy, Hard, Double, Nonstop Remix, Battle

The first version released. Features 15 normal songs, and 4 nonstop remixes.

From this version, songs that became particularly popular were "Funky Tonight", by the Korean pop group Clon, and "Another Truth" (also known as "Cordiality"), by Novasonic. "Funky Tonight" is one of the most used songs for freestyling.

The 2nd Dance Floor (Arcade)
Released: December 1999

Available game modes: Easy, Hard, Double, Nonstop Remix, Nonstop Remix Double, Battle

The second release, featuring 4 old songs, an old remix, 17 new songs and 6 new remixes. The same interface from the first version is used, and one of the new nonstop remixes is hidden and can only be found with special codes.

To play the Nonstop Remix songs in double, a special code is needed when selecting the Nonstop Remix mode.

The Fusion / The 1st & 2nd Dance Floor (PC)
Released: 1999

Available game modes: Easy, Hard, Double, Nonstop Remix, Nonstop Remix Double, Battle

The first home version; there are no arcade counterparts for this one. It includes songs from both 1st and 2nd releases, summing up 32 songs and 10 nonstop remixes.

No new songs are introduced in this version; it is the first "collection" release, which just packs old songs.

3rd The O.B.G. (The Oldies But Goodies) (Arcade/PC)
Released: May 2000

Available game modes: Easy, Hard, Crazy, Double, Nonstop Remix (single/double), Battle

The first version which offered Crazy mode, though a special code was needed to enable it. The code also has effect on Nonstop Remix, but cancels out the effect of the Nonstop Remix Double code if used.

A new interface appeared: the blue arrows are used to scroll through the available songs, which appear in pairs on the top of the screen. Each of the red arrows is used to choose one of those songs. The center arrow has no purpose other than entering codes.

Having a completely renewed song list, this release brought back to life many well-known Korean hits from the 90's. The Banya songs, although new, were also Korean-90's-styled. Only 2 songs from a total of 23 were from older versions, and both came with new harder stepcharts: Extravaganza and Another Truth (this one also had a new BGA). The 7 remixes included the hidden remix from 2nd Dance Floor (which was no longer hidden), also with a whole new stepchart.

3rd The O.B.G. SE (The Season Evolutionary Dance Floor) (Arcade/PC)
Released: September 2000

Available game modes: Easy, Hard, Crazy, Double, Nonstop Remix (single/double), Battle

Apart from songs, there isn't much new in this version. Same interface as the previous version. A special feature, though, is that it features a secret song, "Kiss", which can't be found in any other version.

14 songs and a single nonstop remix were added, as well as several songs from previous mixes.

The Collection (Arcade/PC)
Released: November 2000

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Double, Nonstop Remix (single/double), Battle

A new "collection" release, which packs all previously released songs (except for SE's secret song) in an O.B.G.-style interface.

Though there are no new productions, this version features a total of 66 songs and 18 nonstop remixes.

The Perfect Collection (Arcade/PC)
Released: December 2000

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Double, Nonstop Remix (single/double), Battle

As the title suggests, this version improves The Collection by featuring all songs that appeared in that version and adding 17 new songs (no new remixes). That means 83 songs and 18 remixes.

The interface is similar to the previous ones, but with a new game mode selection screen which offers Crazy mode without the need of a special code. Also, in the song select screen, instead of representing songs by small pictures it shows a roulette with slanted labels, each with a song name written to it. This change is particularly unfriendly among non-Korean players (which, though this is another Korean release, may play this version on arcades that imported the game).

This version was later released for PC, but using an interface similar to The Premiere, described below. The PC version was released internationally.

Extra (Arcade)
Released: February 2001

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Extra Expert (single/double), Double, Nonstop Remix (single/double), Battle

As it is another Korean release, this version should be considered another successor of The Perfect Collection, not from The Premiere.

This version is quite unique: it changed Crazy's name to Extra Expert (or XX for short), introduced a brand new interface, a new Double challenge (the XX Double) and the hold arrows. As it is a Korean release, the Nonstop Remix mode returned.

On the new interface, the blue arrows choose the songs as usual, but the red arrows change the game mode. With a single credit you're able to play songs from any mode (considering the limitations like Double modes only being available when there's only one person playing, and Battle mode only being available when there are two players). Like in The Premiere, the center arrow is used to confirm the selection.

This version was actually produced by F2System, an Andamiro affiliate which also produced in 2000 the Techno Motion dance simulation game. Two of the songs from this version are signed by F2: "Holiday" and "Can Can". Can Can, which now has an artist of Radezky since its inclusion on Prex 3, appears in the KPOP section of Exceed, despite being produced specifically for Pump It Up. It has since been moved to the Banya channel in Exceed 2.

23 new songs were added, and 5 nonstop remixes.

The Premiere / The International Dance Floor (Arcade)
Released: June 2001

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Double, Battle

The first international release. Features 6 new songs, all of them covers of American Pop songs, from *NSYNC to a-ha, and 81 old songs (in other words, almost all the previous songs, minus remixes). Several songs were renamed, so that they had English names – or, at the very least, romanizations.

The interface has been redesigned: the blue arrows still navigate through the songs, but only one song appears on screen, which is confirmed with the center button. The red arrows are used only for entering codes, which are a lot simpler (and thus easier to memorize), and there's a single code for speeding up arrows instead of separate codes for each velocity, making it more user-friendly.

A special Brazilian version was also released, which featured, as well as the 6 international Pop songs in English, 8 additional Brazilian Pop songs in Portuguese by original artists (not covers).

The PREX (Arcade)
Released: November 2001

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Double, Battle

A new collection, aimed to fuse The Premiere and Extra (hence the name PREX). Contains The Premiere&#39;s 87 songs and Extra&#39;s 22 normal songs (nonstop remixes and the new version of Clon's "First Love" were not included).

The interface is from The Premiere.

The Rebirth (Arcade)
Released: January 2002

Available game modes: Easy, Hard, Crazy, Double, Half-Double, Division, Combo Battle

This Korean release features a slightly improved Premiere interface: different codes, and a new code to switch between Easy, Hard and Crazy modes (changing game mode from other modes is not possible).

Two new game modes were introduced: Division and Half-Double. Unfortunately for the Division lovers, this mode was dropped and no other version has offered it again, save Premiere 2.

There are 34 new and no old songs available in this version. Though it is a Korean release, the Nonstop Remix mode was not included.

This version was simultaneously released with The Premiere 2.

The Premiere 2 / The 2nd International Dance Floor (Arcade)
Released: March 2002

Available game modes: Easy, Hard, Crazy, Full Double, Half-Double, Division, Combo Battle

The international counterpart for The Rebirth. The 34 new songs from Rebirth are featured, with 66 old songs from The Premiere (though this is an international release, there are no old or new international songs), plus 2 new songs from Banya: Vook and Csikos Post (the last one is a remix of Hermann Necke's song with same name). The new songs from Extra, which appeared on The PREX, are not available.

This version is normally not considered a collection, just an alternative version of The Rebirth. When attributing the new songs to a release, people often call those 36 songs (the Rebirth ones, plus Vook and Csikos Post) as "Premiere 2/Rebirth songs".

The PREX 2 (Arcade)
Released: November 2002

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Full Double, Half-Double, Combo Battle

Fusing again the Premiere series with Extra, this international collection was released, with an Extra-style interface, all 36 songs from Premiere 2/Rebirth, 21 songs from Extra (the same included from The PREX, except for "Circus Magic") and the remaining 36 songs from previous versions that appeared in Extra, making up a total of 93 songs.

The Premiere 3 / The 3rd International Dance Floor (Arcade)
Released: May 2003

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Full Double, Half-Double, Combo Battle

This international release features an Extra-style interface and 20 new songs, all from American Pop and Latin Pop, the latter due to the increasing success of PIU in Latin America, especially in Mexico.

However, featuring only 36 old songs (summing up to 56), and with 16 new ones being from unknown singers (although there's a cover of Gloria Estefan's Conga), not mentioning that most of the new songs had no challenging/difficult steps, this version is considered by an expressive number of fans as the worst PIU version ever made.

The PREX 3 / The 4th International Dance Floor (Arcade/PC)
Released: October 2003

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Freestyle, Nightmare, Half-Double, Combo Battle

Breaking the PREX tradition, this version is not a collection, as it features 3 new songs and does not feature very many Extra songs. It uses the same interface (including same graphics) from The Premiere 3. In total, there are 77 songs.

Apart from the new songs, this version also featured the return of Banya's "Hypnosis" and "Ignition Starts", songs from the first version which never appeared in international releases, a few new step routines for old songs and the Nightmare mode, bringing the challenge in the game to a new degree.

There were also some major international licenses that were made for this mix and intended to be released with the game, but since Andamiro didn't get the licensing for them they were taken off the Stage.cfg file, which the machine uses to show songs on the song select screen. By altering the files you could "unlock" these hidden songs.

There was also a special release of PREX3 for arcade that did not include the rap songs with profanity in them, which brought the song list down to 72 on this version.

In December, the PC version of The PREX 3 was released, with all the songs from Prex 3, plus Banya's song An Interesting View from 3rd OBG.

Exceed / The 5th International Dance Floor (Arcade)
Released: April 2004

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Freestyle, Nightmare, Battle

As this is the 10th arcade release (not counting collections), this version has an X (a Roman 10) in its logo, and a name making a reference to that: Exceed.

This release introduces yet another interface, where the songs are divided into three channels (Banya, Pop and K-Pop). You use the red arrows to change the channel, and the blue arrows, as usual, to change the song. Only after you confirm a song with the yellow arrow you'll be prompted for which mode you want.

An interesting fact is that this version uses a completely new hardware, making upgrades from older versions not so simple, but offering a much more responsive and visually improved interface and interaction.

Exceed also uses a new operator menu interface which allows an arcade owner to lock out songs they deem inappropriate for the arcade.

This version features 24 new songs from a total of 102.

Exceed 2 / The 6th International Dance Floor (Arcade)
Released: December 2004

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Freestyle, Nightmare, Battle, Remix

Featuring a slightly modified Exceed interface, the player first must choose between three game modes, called Stations:
 * Arcade station : The gameplay is similar to the previous games, featuring Normal, Hard and Crazy, and also Freestyle and Nightmare for single-players.
 * Battle station : A mode made especially for matches, featuring four different battle modes. It takes only one credit (instead of the usual two for two players), but only one song is played. The song is also limited to being selected from the remix selection (hard mode only). Special modifiers can affect gameplay, which are activated during gameplay by stepping on particular arrows, signified by specialized icons. The variety of available modifiers depends on the mode of battle selected (i.e. 'Minesweeper', 'Item Battle'). A pair of characters are also depicted on screen, who react to the loss of health during gameplay.


 * Remix station : A mode specifically for playing longer songs, in the old Nonstop Remix fashion. In this mode you can normally play only 2 songs.

This version features 18 new songs from a total of 136.

Exceed SE (PS2/Xbox)
Released: August 2005

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Battle, Freestyle, Nightmare, Sudden Death, Home, Survival, Arcade, Video

Features the same interface as Pump it Up : Exceed arcade version with new features : an easy modifier menu and the ability to select separate difficulty levels from the other player under home mode.

There are 101 songs on the PS2 version and 97 songs on the Xbox version with the ability to download more songs on the Xbox version using Xbox Live. This version features 6 new songs to the series; Junkie XL's remix of A Little Less Conversation, Let's Groove by Earth, Wind, & Fire, I Love You Baby by Pandera, Name of the Game by Crystal Method, Rapper's Delight from Sugarhill Gang, and Walkie Talkie Man by Steriogram.

Zero / The 7th International Dance Floor (Arcade)
Released: February 2006

Available game modes: Normal, Hard, Crazy, Freestyle, Nightmare, Another, Mission, and Remix, plus the Easy Station for beginners.

In Februrary of 2006, Andamiro released a brand new version of Pump It Up: The International 7th Dance Floor. An easy mode has been added for beginners. A brand new interface has been implemented that allows preview of background animations when you view a song prior to selection. Also, for the first time ever in an arcade release, two players are able to select two different levels of difficulty in the same song, at the same time.

New Songs

 * BanYa - Beat of the War 2
 * BanYa - Jump
 * BanYa - Love is a Danger Zone 2
 * BanYa - Moonlight
 * BanYa - Papa Gonzales
 * BanYa - Phantom
 * BanYa - Witch Doctor
 * Cachy Huang - Up Up
 * Cho PD - My Friend
 * Drunken Tiger - Emergency
 * Eugene - Wuthering Heights
 * Eun Ji Won - All Famy
 * JTL - Enter the Dragon
 * Jang Yoon Jung - Oh My
 * Lazy Bone - Do It Yourself
 * Louis - Chung Hwa Ban Jeom
 * Mina - Turn Around
 * Spooky Banana - Mr. Fire Fighter
 * Pandera - I Love You Baby
 * Perry - Storm
 * T.O - Footprints
 * Turtles - What's Goin' On
 * Remix: Try to B.P.M - LIADZ
 * Remix: K-Hip-Hop Mix Vol. 1
 * Remix: K-House Mix Vol. 1
 * Remix: [Hidden,unreleased, remix song. Known as-of-today as C44 Remix]

Another Step songs

 * Naissance 2 - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock
 * Final Audition 3 U.F - Another Nightmare - unlocked upon unlock of Another station
 * Solitary 2 - Another Crazy - unlocked upon unlock of Another station
 * Solitary 2 - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock
 * Final Audition 2 - Another Crazy - unlocked upon unlock of Another station
 * Final Audition 2 - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock
 * My Friend - Another Freestyle - unlocked upon unlock of Another station
 * Mexi Mexi - Another Nightmare - unlocked upon unlock of Another station
 * Eres Para Mi - Another Freestyle - unlocked upon unlock of Another station
 * Extravaganza - Another Crazy - time/point-release unlock
 * Extravaganza - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock
 * Love is a Danger Zone 2 - Another Hard - time/point-release unlock, mission unlock (mission 14)
 * Love is a Danger Zone 2 - Another Crazy - time/point-release unlock, mission unlock (mission 14)
 * Love is a Danger Zone 2 - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock, mission unlock (mission 14)
 * Final Audition - Another Crazy - mission unlock (mission 19)
 * Final Audition - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock
 * I'll Give You All My Love - Another Nightmare - mission unlock (mission 28)
 * Mr. Larpus - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock
 * Vook - Another Freestyle - mission unlock (mission 27)
 * Vook - Another Nightmare - mission unlock (mission 27)
 * Do it Yourself - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock
 * Witch Doctor - Another Crazy - time/point-release unlock, mission unlock (mission 17)
 * Witch Doctor - Another Nightmare - time/point-release unlock
 * Circus Magic - Another Nightmare - mission unlock (mission 26)
 * Join The Party - Another Nightmare - mission unlock (mission 20)
 * Love is a Danger Zone - Another Freestyle - mission unlock (mission 16)
 * Love is a Danger Zone - Another Nightmare - mission unlock (mission 16)

NX: New Xenesis (Arcade)
Release: 2007 (?)

The next version of Pump It Up, NX, is soon to be released. While no concrete facts have been given thus far about the game itself, the game's name has been confirmed in a Korean article on the official PIU Website, has been confirmed as the official game for the 2007 World Pump Festival and it will be unveiled at the 2006 WPF. Many rumors have spread on the internet about the game, but none have yet been confirmed by Andamiro. Some distributors say that they will receive their copies before 2006 is over. This has not been yet confirmed.