![]() Still, in 2006, Konami took over the rights to the name of the video game but not to the collection of songs, the main reason why there was no third installment (and it gave up the market for arcade machines in the West), and for which Andamiro also made a series of PIU spin-offs based on the much-mentioned video game.Īnd as if this were not enough, one of the fans of ITG managed to make an open source version ready to be modified and / or improved by the community called OpenITG, which is available for OSX, Windows, and GNU / Linux. Roxor Games, the main distributor of this game, was in charge of installing this game on DDR machines in the United States, the main reason why Konami decided to make a series of lawsuits and copyright lawsuits in order to stop the expansion of this video game.Īndamiro Entertainment, the main South Korean company that owns the video game Pump It Up, has supported ITG developers with the provision of the necessary hardware in order to facilitate the distribution of the game through recreational parks. Its legal implementation in DDR machines has been more than eventful, since Konami's US subsidiary was the one that hindered the implementation of this video game in its most popular commercial fork, called In the groove, which was born as a solution to the poor technical support that Konami gave to DDR dance machines in the West, in addition to becoming popular due to the high level of difficulty it had in contrast to the aforementioned Konami dance simulator. Implementación rugged to its commercialization On DDR machines Thanks to this, DDR fans like PIU have made playable versions of their favorite songs, and have even popularized their musical productions through Stepmanía. With the passage of time, video game fans Pump It Up They also gave their two cents to implement the mechanics of said game (unlike the DDR that uses 4 arrows, the PIU uses a panel of 5 arrows in the shape of a blade, in which it adapts to almost any dance style). Initially, this video game was born as an "imitation" of the aforementioned game Dance Dance Revolution, since normally, the DDR was available so much in the arcade machines as in the consoles like the PlayStation and / or XBox and Nintendo.Īnd by the time it had come out StepMania, there were no official versions of DDR for the PC, so they turned to open source and the version back then was pretty primitive.
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