Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix

Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix, known as Dancing Stage Mario Mix in Europe and Dance Dance Revolution with Mario in Japan, is a 2005 music video game by Nintendo and Konami for the Nintendo Game Cube, and is the first Dance Dance Revolution game to be released on a Nintendo console outside Japan.

As the game starts, Waluigi is about to steal the four Music Keys, who can grant wishes, from Truffle Towers. However, when he tries to open the door to the room containing the Music Keys, three of them scatter across the Mushroom Kingdom, and the fourth one is kept by Waluigi. From a distance, Toad watches these events unfold and rushes to tell Mario or Luigi, depending on which character the player chose, who then rushes off to retrieve the missing Music Keys.

The keys are recovered after the player completes tasks for other characters who have found the scattered keys and then defeating them in a dance challenge. These characters are, in order, Waluigi, Pirate Lakitu, Blooper, Hammer Bros., Wario and Freezie.

Toad and the player's character then return the Music Keys to Truffle Towers. Soon after, Bowser steals the keys, but is followed by Toad and the player's chosen character. They enter Bowser's Castle to recapture the Music Keys, and are promptly challenged by Bowser. After defeating him in a dance-off, Toad and the player's character return the Music Keys to Truffle Towers for the final time.

This game came bundled with its own Dance Pad specifically, and only, for the GameCube.

Thsi game provides examples of

 * Announcer Chatter: Luckily you can turn him off.
 * Big Bad: In his only main antagonist role so far, Waluigi!
 * Easier Than Easy: Easy mode uses only the left and right arrows.
 * Exergaming: This should be a given since it is Dance Dance Revolution.
 * Fake Difficulty: Actually Averted this time. All the songs aren't so fast that you can't see the arrows coming, also aren't so slow that they are mashed together.
 * Going Through the Motions: The animations that Luigi and Mario make during songs are recycle quite often.
 * Hijacked by Ganon: Hijacked twice, first by Wario then by Bowser.
 * Rank Inflation: From E to A.