Beatmania/Trivia


 * Executive Meddling: Bemani is Deader Than Dead in the US because of Konami's incompetence and feet-shuffling, as well as the fact that they were too busy suing Activision and Harmonix to release their own product.
 * No Export for You: The 5-key beatmania series had a few US releases, under the name hiphopmania. IIDX had a shot in the US with one console release. which tanked. It did, however, come with an improved version of the Japanese official controller. The arcade version of IIDX 14 GOLD had a couple location tests in the US, but that was the closest Westerners got to an arcade release.
 * Importers began to be screwed over further by the dreaded e-Amusement system beginning on 9th Style (as if that mix had enough bugs already), denying access to boss songs and other fun stuff.
 * However, people from a certain community of American fans managed to reverse engineer the e-Amusement protocols, and build their own implementation of it.
 * Even more so in the recent remix contest for the Sirius OST, as you have to reside in Japan in order to compete. Given the fact that the games are made in Japan, it would help for the artist to be there too, but still...