Pop'n Music 8

Arcade Video game published 22 years ago:

pop'n music 8 (c) 2002 Konami Corp.

"pop'n music" is part of Konami's BEMANI series of games. The game has 9 colorful buttons which the player must hit in time with 'notes' that travel down the screen in order to fill in sound effects missing from a song.

- TECHNICAL -

Konami Bemani Firebeat Hardware

CPU : IBM Power PC 403GCX
Graphics System : Konami custom (sprite style chip)
Sound : Yamaha YMZ280B
Software : DVD Drive, CD-ROM drive & Dongle
Graphics Notes : Can draw arbitrary sized images from VRAM, which is laid out like a 2D texture sheet, also all the images are packed 16-bit pixels so there's no palette.
Storage Media : CD-ROM (Program) & DVD-ROM (Audio)

- TRIVIA -

Released in May 2002.

Konami Music Entertainment released a 2 CD limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Pop'n Music 8 AC & CS Pop'n Music 6 - KMCA-173~4) on 22/08/2002.

- SERIES -

1. pop'n music (1998)
2. pop'n music 2 (1999)
3. pop'n music 3 (1999)
4. pop'n music 4 (2000)
5. pop'n music 5 (2000)
6. pop'n music 6 (2000)
7. pop'n music 7 (2001)
8. pop'n music 8 (2002)
9. pop'n music 9 (2003)
10. pop'n music 10 (2003)
11. pop'n music 11 (2004)
12. pop'n music 12 Iroha (2004)
13. pop'n music 13 Carnival (2005)
14. pop'n music 14 Fever! (2006)
15. pop'n music 15 Adventure (2007)
16. pop'n music 16 Party (2008)
17. pop'n music 17 The Movie (2009)
18. pop'n music 18 Sengoku Retsuden (2009)
19. pop'n music 19 Tune Street (2010)
20. Hello! pop'n music (2011)
21. pop'n music 20 fantasia (2011)
22. pop'n music Sunny Park (2012)
23. pop'n music éclale (2015)
24. pop'n music - Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume (2016)
25. pop'n music Peace (2018)
26. pop'n music - Kaimei Riddles (2020)
27. pop'n music UniLab (2022)
28. pop'n music - Jam & Fizz (2024)

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