Japanese arcade machine lets anyone become PVD for a few yen

Beatmania is a DJing arcade machine that follows the “Guitar Hero” format.  The ‘DJ’ spins to Konami-produced tracks, using a turntable and seven buttons.  If you spin and tap in sync, it will sound decent.  If not, the resulting track will end up being pretty dodgy.  All this is judged by the ‘groove gauge’, so even if you think you sounded hot, your grade, from AAA to F, could prove you wrong.

Though an impressive-looking machine, the machine doesn’t quite replicate the thrills and spills of DJing for real.  For a start there are no inedbriates hanging around requestng garage tracks, there’s no fear of a stray Jack Daneils and Coke landing in your mixer, and from what I hear, there are no random girls kneeling under the console either!!

There are, unfortunately no plans for Beatmania to come to Europe or the US; worse still, if you want to buy your own, that’ll be a cool £12,000 please!!