Did You Know? - 573
Posted in 573 does this number sound familiar? Do you know what it has to do with this blog? Well, I will tell you.
Beatmaniaiidx.com was supposed to be mainly about the great music game BeatMania IIDX (7K) which is an “upgrade” of BeatMania (5KEYS). BM is the first musical game from a series called BEMANI. As you can see everything on this blog has to do with either BEMANI or other music games. BEMANI games are produced by a company named KONAMI. So you wonder where the number 573 is hidden in the word KONAMI?
It’s easy actually. KONAMI is a Japanese company. Isn’t there something more to the name? Well, there is. Five is said “go” in Japanese and it can be changed to voiceless version “KO”. Seven can be said nana and from there comes the “NA”. “Number” three can be described by mittsu from which comes the last syllable “MI”. From this 573 was born and the company is also known under this number. That’s also why the KONAMI’s name is written in katakana rather than kanji characters (which would have a real meaning).
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573 number can be found in KONAMI games. For example both The Legend of Max and Max300 from DDR have max combo exactly 573.
Xsoft said,
September 18, 2007 @ 2:47 pm
http://ddrclub.rso.wisc.edu/yasuaaamax300hs.jpg - true
http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~ddr-koji/picture/ste_legend.jpg - combo 2^8 (or is it on another difficult?)
stsung said,
September 18, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
Both songs on DDR Arcades (on SM it should be as well) has the same combo. Don’t forget to count the jumps as 2.