Space Channel 5 1999

Is it still worth playing?

Ulala, a reporter for the news channel Space Channel 5, dances her way through an alien invasion in this 1999 rhythm game for the Dreamcast. The aliens, the Morolians, are making people dance against their will. As in Simon Says, an opponent performs a move and Ulala copies it in time to the music, with calls such as Up, Down, Left, Right and Chu. There is no visual timing cue, and missing one move fails the segment and lowers your rating. Each of the four stages has a minimum rating to pass and ends with a boss battle. Ulala and the effects are real time polygons, and the backgrounds are pre rendered movies. The style draws on the 1960s, and Michael Jackson makes a cameo. An experienced player can finish it in under an hour. Copying dance moves in time with the music is still easy to start now.