Click circles to the beat; the free rhythm game with a million maps.
Cheerleading agents rescue people through rhythm; the DS oddity.
Anti-gravity ships to a Chemical Brothers soundtrack; the PlayStation as a club.
Mini-games of pure rhythm; Nintendo's weirdest series.
A beetle on a track to a violent beat; rhythm violence.
A bard who sings instead of fights, saving the world with a colour wheel.
Tetris with a Rez soundtrack and VR; Mizuguchi makes blocks transcendent.
Slice blocks with lightsabers to the beat in VR; the best-selling VR game.
Rhythm levels to Black Betty and the best 2D platforming of its decade; Ubisoft Montpellier.
A robed figure walks to a mountain with a stranger who cannot speak; two hours you remember.
Guitar, bass, drums and a microphone in one living room; Harmonix's full band.
Arrows on a floor mat and a cabinet in every arcade; the rhythm game that got people moving.
Inline-skating graffiti gangs in a cel-shaded Tokyo; the Dreamcast's style.
Roll a sticky ball over everything until it is a star; the Namco oddity with the best soundtrack.
A plastic guitar and five coloured buttons; the party game of the 2000s.
A shooter that plays like a rave; Mizuguchi's synaesthesia on the Dreamcast.
A windswept Atlantic port with 18th-century ramparts, a fish market and kitesurfing on the beach.
Graceland, Sun Studio where Elvis recorded, Beale Street blues and the Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.
The live-music capital: SXSW, bats under the Congress bridge and breakfast tacos.
Music City: the Grand Ole Opry, honky-tonks on Broadway and hot chicken.
The Motown Museum, the Henry Ford, Art Deco skyscrapers and a comeback story.
The city where the wind is born: a white-sand beach, Art Nouveau streets and the abandoned Karosta naval prison.
A fishing town of pubs and trad sessions at the end of the Dingle Peninsula, the westernmost point of Europe.
Bach's church, the peaceful revolution of 1989 and the artists' halls of the old Spinnerei cotton mill.
The Caribbean's biggest carnival.
Reggae legend's birthplace and shrine.
Join a real Buenos Aires milonga among the faded ballrooms of San Telmo.
Lively harbour city of music and pubs.
Belgium's spectacular electronic-music festival.
Britain's legendary music-and-mud festival.
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