*Interesting Imports is a little series of games that I've imported & decided to review. This'll be part one. Hopefully, enough people will be interested enough for a part two...*

I decided that instead of reviewing the game that I imported, I would review the entire series in general since there's so many games in the series. This is a review/history of the beatmania IIDX (pronounced 2-DX) series.

Beginnings & gameplay: WAAAAAY back in 1997, Konami released a game in the JPN arcades called beatmania. Basically, the controller consisted of 5 buttons (or "keys") & a turntable (please note that this is the 2P side. 1P's side has the turntable on the left & the keys on the right):

The gameplay was simple: Simply press the keys & spin the turntable when the bars on the screen hit the red