I am not sure about the details but it ended with all Technika's machine in Japan to be handled by Konami's distribution and they kind of kill it off (perhaps intentionally - my guess is the lawsuit ended in distribution right for Konami rather than monetary gain? not too sure). After many years, DJmax's Technika series owned by their subsidiary called Pentavision at that time was sued by Konami (not suprisiong at all). I spotted some of the screenshot and was very excited to play this game, but I guess the game company has not much option other than staying low and hide under the radar from Konami. I have a very strong reason to believe o2jam has to shut down abruptly (at their peak) to avoid the foreseeable patent lawsuit from Konami.Īt this point of time, DJMAX was already in the market but quite reserved only in Korea. Apparently their patent hunt did not stop there.

Remember the arcade game EZ2DJ developed by Amuseworld, actually got sued by Konami back in 2007 for imitating their rhythmic game called Beatmania. This may related to Konami, though I am just guessing and 100% based on my opinion and some research. I am not too sure the reason behind the shutdown but recently I just found out that there might be something sinister behind this, after so many years. I have been playing o2jam religiously for years until one fine day the game has stop development and shut down entirely. All this thanks to game hosting company known as 'e-games' founded by a Japanese establishing the company in Malaysia. O2jam back then was a massive game world wide at least I can vouch on that for South East Asia region. The game was passed on to be further developed independently by a company called O2media. O2JAM was a game created by AmuseWorld at first (if I am not wrong), the very same creator as you would have probably heard of ez2dj (now ez2ac). I started my first rhythmic game back in around year 2000, and most of you would have probably heard of o2jam. If it is really TLDR then just skip to may last point on why you should get DJMAX respect. Before I begin maybe should let you guys know it's gonna be a long winded story on my encounter with VSRG (vertical scrolling rhythm game) and in nutshell I will explain how glad and thankful I am that DJMAX had finally made it on Steam and also Play Station.

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