When music games first hit, they landed hard. Starting from Parappa the Rapper it didn't take more than a couple (literally two) years for Dance Dance Revolution to come along and, a year later, the South Korean take on music/dancing in the form of Pump it Up. Primarily an arcade game, it stayed in South Korea barring a single console release in the form of Pump It Up Exceed, and then it disappeared for anyone who wasn't following the arcade music scene. You might have run across a machine at Round One or Dave & Buster's, but otherwise despite the series still seeing regular annual releases it was gone from a large chunk of the world. Granted, there's an entirely different article to be written about music games that are arcade-only, thanks to unique control schemes that would require peripherals too expensive to justify the conversion to home usage, but the point is that despite Pump It Up being an ongoing success it was limited to arcades, right up until today's Early Access Steam release of Pump It Up Rise.
A Few Slight Revisions On the Way Home
Pump It Up Rise is the latest game in the series and,...
