Overview
Dance Dance Revolution WORLD is a music video game, the 18th installment of the Dance Dance Revolution arcade series in Japan (the 10th outside of Japan), and the sequel to Dance Dance Revolution A3. The game was released as a software upgrade for LCD-based cabinets on June 12, 2024, in Asia, Australia and the United States.
As is the case with Dance Dance Revolution A3, Dance Dance Revolution WORLD is currently unavailable in Canada, Europe and several American states. In North America, DDR World is available at Round1 USA, but not at Dave & Buster's, which continues to operate Dance Dance Revolution A20 Plus at 71 locations.
This is the first release of Dance Dance Revolution to be unsupported on CRT-based arcade cabinets, as Dance Dance Revolution A3 is the last supported version. Early DDR games, from the first release in 1998 to Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova 2 in 2007, were sold with brand new CRT-based cabinets. Arcades were able to install newer releases on these cabinets by purchasing a Bemani PC upgrade kit. An offline version of Dance Dance Revolution A3 was released on April 30, 2024, for these cabinets. This offline release is also supported on these cabinets if the CRT monitor is replaced with a widescreen LCD monitor.
