PSX Longplay [074] Bust A Groove

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Played by: Connor

Bust a Groove is a hybrid music/fighting game (heavy on the music, light on the fighting) released in 1998. The idea is to follow the instructions for button presses, ending the sequence in beat with the music. I remember liking this quite a lot back in the PS1 days, despite the music being quite far from my normal tastes.

Several nutty characters battle each other on the dancefloor for possession of an alien device called "the Groovetron". Opponents range from slightly weird (a stripper/fortune teller/assassin) to really weird (aliens and dancing robots).

Heat is supposed to be the feature character, but I played as Frida because women dance better. :) The game is more or less impossible to play these days, since the delay between graphics and music is hardcoded for TVs back in the 90's, so most of the playthrough is done with re-recording. Because of that, I played on 'hard', to give the computer a chance, and since dominating too much zooms in on your character, making it a bit boring.

There are some graphical glitches, in that metallic surfaces are pretty wonky and some objects get stretched when they are really close to the camera. Hopefully a future revision of PSXjin might fix this.

The gameplay movie consists of one run through the stages only. Bonus video contains the ending movie and some private dancing (no, not that kind!) for each character, also allowing you to hear their themes without the announcer screaming all the time. Bios video contains the biographies of the characters with their alternative themes (instrumental) in the background, as well as two other mixes (one from the gamedisc and one from OCRemix).

Publisher's note: Additional bonus videos can be downloaded from our website.

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[spoonshiro]

Forget Guitar Hero, real men play Bust a Groove.

[Snyperwolf91]

ive played the demo of this game but i still have no clue how to play this game . =/ but it have this Jet set radio style somehow.

[saintmiguel7]

ese juego me vicio mucho tiempo un dia juge muchas horas sin descansar me provoco un folor de cabeza trmendo connauseas y bobito mas diarrea XD pero era tan divertido que no me importo XD...

[kONflictOD]

WAs this played on Emulator?

[irish8110]

@Snyperwolf91 its easy...you count 1,2,3,4 to the beat(your characters flashing set of commands),and do your set of commands before the 4th beat.

[MeAndris]

@Snyperwolf91 YEah absolutely Jet set radio style! :D

[TrickshotTank]

Strikes Stage Is The Only Relatively Difficult One, The Rest Including Robo Z Are Easy

[ChocoToken]

@WaffleLoyalist ; His stage makes me rage. Dx

[andoc]

Loved this game, loved the soundtrack too, I still play both the game and the OST sometimes.

[osmarchito]

they shoulda make robot z dance like robot dance not like that he looks gay lol...eather way the game is awasome

[jstark069]

I had the Japanese version of this game "Bust a Move". It was still all in English but It had better music and moves. 1st game I bought my little brother :)

[AMCScarface]

The first time i had to push the pad-buttons was when i played some dance-missions in GTA:San Andreas....i hate them so much :S