Pop'n Music Animelo

Arcade Video game published 25 years ago:

pop'n music Animelo (c) 1999 Konami Company, Limited.

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 March 2000.

'Animelo' stands for 'Animation Melody'.

- SERIES -

1. pop'n music Animelo (1999)
2. pop'n music Animelo 2 (2000)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Nintendo Game Boy Color (2000, "Pop'n Music GB Animation Melody")