My history with rhythm gaming is fairly short.
2008 - Started playing Guitar hero III, got up to the easier hard songs and then got GH4 for christmas.
2009 - I still played GH but not much, once a week at most.
2010 - Nothing.
2011 - Nothing.
2012 - Nothing.
2013 - Heard someone mention Osu! on a forum and downloaded it.

I tried downloading o2Jam a couple of months back but I couldn't get on it.

I had a knockoff DDR-dance mat - played that for most of my childhood.

This might not count, but I played the hell out of tap tap revenge (iOS game) from 2008.

After that, I discovered Stepmania sometime in 2011.

I just discovered osu! around 3 months ago - saw a friend playing mania. 7 keys looked pretty damn intimidating at first, but I managed to pick it up fast and now I'm improving (I still suck at all other modes lol)

I started out with DDR MAX 2 at 2004 i believe; Chuckie Cheese! Eventually I moved onto DDR Max 3 and a PS2 version of DDR. While trying to search for spreadsheets for DDR Max, i stumbled upon flash flash revolution and stepmania and i believe that was around 06. I played Stepmania for about a couple months and had to quit due to other games. Just barely 2 months ago i've found out about osu! through a friend, and noticed the mania game mode; hooked on it ever since!

I don't remember exactly when I started rhythm gaming, but I do know I played lots of DDR (with a ps2 controller XD) I also played a little Guitar Hero at arcades when I had the chance (though I sucked at it) And then I found osu! and I'm addicted! But I still suck at osu!mania mode xp

2008-2009 - GH3
2009-2012 - nothing
early 2013-now - Cytus(android game)
January 2013-now - Lunatic Rave 2 still couldn't even easy clear a Lv5 Normal ><
February 2013-now - osu!

I didn't play rhythm games until I saw a youtube vid of Space Channel 5 (Part2) in Oct 2012.
Since then I liked Rhythm games, like Rhythm hunter and My favorite, HarmoKnight, which was how I came to Osu!. (Osu is my favorite now!)
Somebody said that playing Ouendan and Osu! were not helpful in that game, so I went on Youtube, Searched Osu, 20 min later, I was playing.

I first played Dance Dance Revolution at an arcade in 2003, I think. It was a on a school trip, and we had pizza for lunch. My friends knew I liked video games, and they asked me to play it. They chose a relatively difficult song, and I was able to pass it easily. I didn't play rhythm games regularly until 2010, when I bought the last High School Musical 3 dance game at the store. I needed a mat if I was going to play a dancing, and it was the cheapest way to get one.

Anyway, since then I have played Guitar Hero and Rock Band. I discovered Osu! a few months ago because a member of a Square Enix forum I visit mentioned he had a friend with a Twitch channel dedicated to Osu!. Now I play osu!mania exclusively.

I think I played Singstar or something for a brief time period, then Guitar Hero, then osu.

I was never really 'seriously' into the genre until I saw the "Queen - Don't Stop Me Now" beatmap on Youtube.

Started Playing Rhythm Games Around 2011, That Game Was Called " Hatsune Miku Project Diva "

Then I Ended Up Playing The Project Diva 2nd And Extend

PaRappa the Rapper in 1st grade.

Too lazy to write the whole story, so I'll just put what I do here.

-Play DDR first, experienced alot notably with DDR SuperNova.
-Found about StepMania thanks to SMFreak (who don't play anymore). Spent playing from 2007-2013.
-Decided to play osu after one of my local friend talk about it. Spent up to 10 months playing this as up right now.

For o!mania, I had ability to play any keys if I want to, although I prefer playing 4K. I didn't like playing 7K unless I found some maps easy to do.

O2jam since 2007.
stopped for about six months last year then I found out about osu mania late December that made me go back to play O2jam again this year

o2jam since beginning

wooooooooow

My music game playing history is somewhat strange XD. Don't know anyone who shares the same way.

My first time of playing rhythm game devotes to Taiko no Tatsujin. When NDS emulator comes out, I found this game (I think it's Touch De Dokodon! 1 ) in a great number of RPG games. When i start to play this game, I was deeply attracted by it. But emulator has great problem which makes you really hard to press Great (良), and sound delays too.

Then it comes to the day when I got my first gaming console, PSP, as a present from my relative. I started to play Taiko crazily and when I have earned some expertise (I was able to FC Oni 8 star back to then), when I searched the Internet, I found DJMAX Portable 2 (Just released then). The Key-sounded games finally brings me into the rhythm game world where rhythm games first climbed up to first place in my preference list, overriding RPGs.

My Taiko ability didn't improve much in the past few years (I can't FC any 10 star; the only one TCC downgraded to 9), and I currently don't play Taiko a lot; However my mania experience grows rapidly in the last 5 years, making me possible to play a few of hardest songs in the game.

2009 Feb to May - o2jam and I was pretty bad.
Quit for little more than a year because I was 13 and I preferred going outside and play xD

Late 2010 to 2011 - stepmania (spread)

2011 August to now - stepmania (index 2 finger style)

2013 Feb - Found this thing called osu rofl.

2013 April - Started osu!mania. Kinda improved quick I guess.

2013 August - Started stepmania solo

Guitar Hero 3 on PS2. I remember waking up early in the mornings to "train" on it :p Eventually moved over to Rock Band 2 (on launch day) and bought RB1 equipment for my 360 and was pretty awesome at all instruments. I suck at RB3's Keyboard though, but mainly because I haven't tried it too often I guess.

Had some random instances of Frets on Fire thrown in there too and some Guitar Hero World Tour.

Then, at some point I heard of osu!

Throw in some random Taiko no Tatsujin also, but that didn't really last too long.

Rock Band in 2007.. Thanks to this game, I'm a drummer now.
I also played Stepmania a few times, I didnt like it (I still dont)
And then I discovered osu! in January 2013, I go on osu!mania.. aaaaand I will never stop this game.

Hey!

So... one of my friends somehow found out about a certain game called "EZ2ON" (Korean rhythm game, 4k-6k, later 8k was implemented) and told "our circle" about it.
No, not the new EZ2ON Reboot... it was ~end of 2008, the old EZ2ON by Uplay... yes, it has been a while. *wipes nostalgic tears* I'm surprised it has actually been this long, I still remember a lot of things. Great times~ *-*

Anyway I played it from ~dec/2008-mar/2009, stopped for personal reasons. I was bad and played 4k only for a long time, and I somehow eventually improved enough to achieve exr15 in Metagalactic. In the last month I tried to move on to 5k and 6k (8k was and still is impossible), which was fun, but then I had to stop playing.

Then, in ~nov/2009, I wanted to get addicted again. I was heartbroken to find out that ez2on had closed and, while I randomly tried some other similar games, I didn't ever get "the fever" again, so that hardly counts. :p

So, not much happened, fastforward to 27/jul/2013... it somehow got to my knowledge that osu had implemented osu!mania, so I immediately registered ^.^/ and then, while I played some 4k/6k in the very first days, I quickly decided to take the opportunity to stop being a scrub of the lowest levels and made the switch to 7k. Obviously the first days were terrible, but now I play mainly 7k and I have no regrets ^.^/ though I am still a scrub. :s

And... some days later, it also got to my knowledge that some company brought EZ2ON back as "EZ2ON Reboot"... AYAYAY so happy~ but then I found out the hard way that I was a few months too late, as now it's pretty much impossible for foreigners to register. Heartbroken again, but not as much :p as osu is pretty okay in fulfilling my rhythm game needs.

hey

i started out as playing DDR then play o2jam when it got famous but luckily still have the o2mania installed in my pc so basically still play them a lot just like how i am playing osu!mania most of the time then now also got back into ddr by training in stepmania and also a friend teaching me some tricks

Got ddr maxx 2 for Christmas then migrated to guitar hero. Found stepmania for when I got bored at work(which was all the time). A friend showed me osu in march last year but I didn't care for it. Then osumania released.

Played the original dance dance when my ps1 was working. Since then I dedicated myself to rhythm games. I now own project diva 1 through diva f, both ouendan games, both Elite beat agent games, and touhou rhythm carnival (quite unforgiving).

Going to add osu! to my collection.

It's more or less written in my profile page, but long story short :

- Discovered O2jam 6 or 7 years ago, I was something around 10 when I watched my cousin playing it. I almost immediately liked the game and started to play it myself a few days later, playing the o-so-famous V3 [LV.6] without stopping.
- After a moment, I stopped playing it, for no particular reason, and a few years later, when I wanted to try it, I found out that the game had been shut down.
- In 2011, I discovered O2mania, and an immense joy flowed through me as I played stuff I loved a few years back (The Festival of Ghosts 2, V3, Bach Alive and Electro Fantasy).
- Pause again, I stopped playing it a few months later.
- In 2013, some of my friends in Skype started to talk about a game called osu!. At first I thought it was some kind of stupid MMO as they were talking about level upping and stuff. I googled it and found out that it was in fact a rythm game and watched some osu!standard plays. One of my friend then "forced" me to try the game out. My first impressions were like : "Oh, that's a fun game." for the first few days. But then, as I accidentally clicked on the Mode tab while choosing my song, I saw the mania icon. I mentally shouted "OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOLMGOGLGOGIOJSFAIOUHJFUIJIKZ" and tried it out immediately, super-happy to play mania again. From this day on, mania has always been my main gamemode, and I have hardly played any other mode since then, and I decided to play this game seriously. Now I can't stop playing osu!, and I even donated for 4 months of osu!supporter (and also offered 4 months to Elementaires, who started playing osu!mania a few weeks later than me, but managed to get #1 FR long before me).

Aaaaand that's it

LR2 probably idk 5-6 years ago.

o2jam. Like i was still in 6th grade.

With DDR/Guitar hero, moving onto Stepmania, moving to osu!

SUPER CRAZY GUITAR MANIAC DELUXE 3!

ftw

This thread brings back memories for sure!

My earliest memory of rhythm gaming was going to Disney World and seeing these two guys playing DDR Disney Mix at Innoventions. I thought I would have been good at it because I play soccer and have fairly quick feet, but alas, we all know no one is good at DDR their first time. In the fall of 2005, I played DDR Extreme 2 with my friend on his PS2 a few times and it was a lot of fun. I started getting the hang of light songs and streams of quarter notes. That Christmas, my parents got me DDR Universe 3 (so surprised other people actually played this game!). I played a lot and started skillboosting a ton, so that by June of 2006 I was close to FCing Sakura on Heavy and I had passed Legend of Max on Heavy (incredibly challenging on a soft/foam pad!). During that time, I saw someone at school playing FFR, so I lurked there a bit until I made an account. I also downloaded Stepmania and got files from bemanistyle/FFR. These days were the good ol' days. Through the rest of 2006 I played more SM than FFR and I got pretty decent at index. However, I really wanted to play all of my files on a pad, so for Christmas my parents got me an 8 panel usb foam pad. Unfortunately, it was either broken or I was retarded (probably the latter) because I could not get this thing to work. That was the beginning of a long hiatus on rhythm games for me. FFR and bemanistyle lost their databases, and I lost interest.

In 2008 I started playing Guitar Hero 2 & 3 (2007 beat the entirety of Super Crazy Guitar Man 2) and I got decent at it. I could never beat TTFAF or Devil Went Down to Georgia, but I had a fun time playing it. Then in late 2008, I quit video games altogether.

I came back to vidya (not as intense) in mid 2010 after I graduated high school, but I didn't have much interest in playing so intently. The computer I played SM on was untouched for two years and this was around when FFR was offline. I would play FFR on the lightdarkness server on occasion to show my friends what it was all about, but I didn't come back until late 2012 when I found out it was back up! I started playing FFR a lot more, downloaded the Tachyon packs by MadMatt, and frequented the forums. I downloaded osu! on my iPod Touch randomly, and decided to look it up online. Sure enough I am here infrequently and I am enjoying it! Although, I'm so used to 4key that anything else is difficult.

I started with DDR Supernova on PS2. I was really good at it too

back in 2005 I was at a lan house playing CS 1.6 with my friends
3 hours later we decided to go home. We saw this guy playing o2jam and we decided to play it
played o2jam/o2mania until 2008 was having a great time... BUT all of a sudden the server died... it made me go =( because i was great at it but since all the servers were dying and no one was talking about it anymore, i finally decided to quit. yeah even though i worked my ass just to get good at it. thats why i always tell people.
Play for fun because one day you WILL stop playing and all that skill WILL be lost
days after i started to play pop n music.Ii also played a drum rhythm game but i cant remember the name, played a little bit of burst a fever since it was the same as o2jam but i decided to quit because i didnt want to accept the fact that i got bad at the game LOL ( yeah frustration )
played a liiiitle bit of stepmania, dance online and audition.
in december 2010 a friend of mine introduced osu! to me im still playing osu! standard.
Last year they introduced osu!mania. i'm playing it and NOW i am having fun with it ( even though i'm not as good as i was before...) because i learned my lesson.
it's not about getting good at it... it's all about having fun lol

TBH.. i never played any rhytm games before, because i'm really terrible at it . . .
so, u can say that the first rhythm game i've played is Osu!

Although after my brother has download this game, i just play it when boring ..
and then after a month i found Osu!Mania

i try to playing all the time because it's so fun
and now i'm trying to increase my rank . . .

i'm not really good in English, just tell me if there's any wrong grammar

I started with osu!standard 6 months ago. I play osu!mania sometimes but i prefer standard because im better and its more simple. I played elite beat agents in nds 3 years ago but very casual level.

Oh god, I'm having to dig pretty deep here to remember. In fact this answer might not exactly fall under the category 100% but it's what got me interested in this genre. Everything contributed to what I play now though, so it all has a place in my heart.

VIB RIBBON!!! It looks simple but don't underestimate this little bugger.


I also played a lot of Dancing Stage as a kid - had one of those mats that could fold up. I still have the game on me, but not the mat, not anymore at least.

I then started to bridge the gap through MTV Music Generator 2 on the PS2. I know what some of you are thinking - "IT'S NOT A RHYTHM GAME!". But that's besides the point here. Through playing this simple music making game, I got familiar with the structure of music, it taught me to appreciate not just the song, but the melody of a song, the bass of a song, the various elements of the song that piece it together.

The next game I remember afterwards must have been Guitar Hero 3, loved playing it!... up until I had a new addition to the family who played acoustic guitar, so I felt kind of stupid at that point that he could play guitar, while I could only play a virtual game. At that point I pretty much took a hiatus from rhythm gaming to work on my piano.

Nowadays, I play osu!mania and Hatsune Miku Project Diva. Still looking for more games to enjoy, but for now I'm happy

Starting from Audition Online , DDR , PIU , DJMAX Technika , and osu!

I first played GH3 when it got out, then I took a short break.
Then there was Jamlegend which was just way too awzm, I really miss that game, and especially the songs, which aren't mapped in this game, unfortnately.
After that I got Rock Band The Beatles, followed by Rock Band 2, GH Metallica, Rock Band Green Day, and Rock Band 3. I used to be quiet the drummer back in the day.
After that I took a year break from rythm gaming, and picked it up again with osu! Aug 2012. Been playing standard since always, and newly picked up CTB and Mania.

The first ever rhythm gaming experience I had that I can remember was probably back in the early 2000's with a side scrolling game called "Tap A Jam" where you used the arrow keys to hit the notes in time with the music. It was highly addicting so I searched for something similar and found a little something called Stepmania in 2006 and I've played it ever since.

Guitar Hero was another one I played a lot, my first experience with that was when GH3 came out, once I was able to 5 star anything on Expert except Raining Blood >_> I pretty much stopped playing after that. Then around 2009 or 2010 started playing osu! I've also played a tiny bit of DDR but not too great at that. That's pretty much most of my background on rhythm gaming, and it's still one of my favorite genres

Guitar Hero 3 (whenever that was out.)
Osu!Mania 2012

Please wrote:

SUPER CRAZY GUITAR MANIAC DELUXE 3!

ftw

THIS

Aside from that, I absolutely sucked at DDR in arcades as a kid, so I had a serious get-good complex when I found Stepmania in 2008 I even heard about osu! back in 2010 on FFR forums but stupidly put off trying it until almost 2013 (when I realised I wasn't really going to improve any further at Stepmania after 5 years of it)

Along the way, I think I whored almost every 4K game, and now osu!std and o!m

Crippling rhythm games addiction! /o/

Main Games :
PIU : 2012-now
Stepmania : 2012-now
osu! : About 2 days ago-now.

Side Games :
DDR
DJMax Technika 2 and 3