- For other uses, see Just Dance (disambiguation).
Just Dance is a rhythm game developed and published by Ubisoft for the Wii, and it is the first in the video game series of the same name. It got released on November 17, 2009, in North America, November 26, 2009, in Australia, and November 27, 2009, in Europe.
The title is derived from the 2008 Lady Gaga song of the same name.[1]
Gameplay
In Just Dance, players use only the standard Wii Remote or Wii Remote Plus and attempt to mimic all the moves of the on-screen silhouette dancer. Players can earn points depending on what moves they perform and how well they perform them, and special Shake Moves in some songs award the player bonus points when performed correctly.
The game has three gameplay modes: the normal mode, in which players pick any track and attempt to dance with the on-screen dancer; a "Last One Standing" mode, in which players are eliminated if they fail to score enough points or make too many mistakes; and a "Strike a Pose" mode, in which players start and stop dancing as dictated by the on-screen dancer.
Covers
Track List
- An asterisk (*) indicates that this song is covered in-game.
- A song colored in █ is playable on the demo version.
| Song | Artist | Year | Difficulty | Effort | Menu Square |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls Just Want to Have Fun | Cyndi Lauper | 1983 | 1 | 2 |  |
| Ring My Bell | Anita Ward | 1979 | 2 | 1 |  |
| A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Edit Remix) | Elvis Presley vs. JXL | 2002 | 2 | 2 |  |
| Cotton Eye Joe | Rednex | 1994 | 1 | 3 |  |
| Surfin’ Bird | The Trashmen | 1963 | 1 | 3 |  |
| Heart of Glass | Blondie | 1978 | 2 | 1 |  |
| Womanizer* | Britney Spears (The Gym All-Stars) |
2008 | 2 | 1 |  |
| Groove Is in the Heart | Deee-Lite | 1990 | 3 | 2 |  |
| Jerk It Out | Caesars | 2002 | 3 | 3 |  |
| I Like to Move It (Radio Mix) | Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman | 1993 | 2 | 2 |  |
| Hot N Cold | Katy Perry | 2008 | 1 | 3 |  |
| Mashed Potato Time | Dee Dee Sharp | 1962 | 1 | 1 |  |
| Girls & Boys | Blur | 1994 | 2 | 2 |  |
| Fame* | Irene Cara (In The Style of Irene Cara) |
1980 | 1 | 3 |  |
| Lump | The Presidents of the United States of America | 1995 | 1 | 3 |  |
| Kids in America | Kim Wilde | 1981 | 2 | 2 |  |
| Pump Up the Jam | Technotronic | 1989 | 2 | 3 |  |
| I Get Around | The Beach Boys | 1964 | 2 | 1 |  |
| Le Freak | Chic | 1978 | 2 | 1 |  |
| That’s the Way (I Like It) | KC and the Sunshine Band | 1975 | 3 | 1 |  |
| Louie Louie | Iggy Pop | 1993 | 1 | 3 |  |
| Funplex (CSS Remix) | The B-52's | 2008 | 2 | 2 |  |
| Jin Go Lo Ba | Fatboy Slim | 2004 | 3 | 2 |  |
| Dare | Gorillaz | 2005 | 2 | 1 |  |
| Bebe | Divine Brown | 2008 | 2 | 1 |  |
| Eye of the Tiger | Survivor | 1982 | 1 | 3 |  |
| Can’t Get You Out of My Head | Kylie Minogue | 2001 | 2 | 1 |  |
| Acceptable in the 80s | Calvin Harris | 2007 | 3 | 3 |  |
| Who Let the Dogs Out? | Baha Men | 2000 | 3 | 2 |  |
| Wannabe | Spice Girls | 1996 | 1 | 2 |  |
| Step by Step | New Kids on the Block | 1990 | 2 | 2 |  |
| U Can’t Touch This | MC Hammer | 1990 | 2 | 3 |  |
Warm Up
| Song | Artist | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Warm Up | Crispy Duck | 2005[2] |
Removed Songs
These songs were planned to be in the game but were taken out for unknown reasons.
- (JD2) indicates that this song later appeared on Just Dance 2.
- (JD3) indicates that this song later appeared on Just Dance 3.
| Song | Artist | Year |
|---|---|---|
| FeelGood | Unknown | N/A |
| Jungle Boogie (JD2) | Kool And The Gang | 1973 |
| Land Of 1000 Dances (JD3) | Wilson Pickett | 1966 |
| Shake | Sam Cooke | 1964 |
| Soul Bossa Nova (JD2) | Quincy Jones and His Orchestra | 1962 |
ESRB/PEGI Ratings
ESRB Rating
Resources can be found here
Category: 
Platforms: Wii
Content descriptors: Lyrics, Mild Suggestive Themes
Rating Summary: This is a dancing simulation game in which players perform and learn dance steps by following the movements of on-screen avatars. The virtual dancers resemble silkscreen-negative silhouettes: they are stylized after the era of each song, and their outfits are not especially revealing. The dance moves, however, occasionally involve spanking, pelvic thrusting, hip-shaking, and swaying hips. That accounts for the Mild Suggestive Themes descriptor. The game is rated E-10+ because it contains some songs with expletives (e.g., “a*s”) and suggestive or crude content (e.g., “You’re a womanizer,” “She spent her twenties between the sheets,” and a “PMS” insult).
PEGI Rating
Resources can be found here
Category: 
Platforms: Wii
Trivia
General
- On Metacritic, Just Dance has the worst reception (49%) out of all the games in the franchise.
- Just Dance is the first main installment to not have DLC; it is later followed by Just Dance 2016 (they are replaced by Just Dance Unlimited for eighth-generation platforms).
- Julia Spiesser and Jérémy Paquet are the only choreographers for the dancers, each choreographing the characters of their matching genders. Thus, this is the game in the main series with the fewest choreographers and performers (2 each).
- Just Dance is the only game in the traditional series that was announced at Gamescom.
- Until Just Dance 2021, it was the only game to not be announced at E3.
- On the GameStop website in North America, an alternate cover can be seen.[3]
- The back cover of the game’s North American instruction booklet features an advertisement for Your Shape.
In-Game
- This is the only main series game which does not have:
- Songs that were released in the game’s release year
- Excluding Ubisoft original tracks, Just Dance 2 is the only other game to not contain any songs that were released in the year the game was released.
- Songs from the 2010's decade (since the game was released in 2009)
- Scrolling lyrics - lyrics do not scroll line by line as they do from Just Dance 2 onwards, but a line or two are displayed at a time after which they immediately change to the next portion of lyrics.
- Differently-colored gloves on the coaches right hand (Although the coaches in a few of the routines wear accessories around their wrists where their gloves would be)
- Gold Moves
- Stars
- "PERFECT", "GOOD", and "YEAH'" moves
- Duets
- Songs with the title in the background
- Alternate Routines
- Songs that can be bought - games from Just Dance 2 to Just Dance 2015 have DLCs, games from Just Dance 2016 to Just Dance 2022 have Just Dance Unlimited (only for 8th-generation consoles), and games from Just Dance 2023 Edition onwards have Just Dance+.
- Songs with censorship added by Ubisoft
- In later games "hell" is censored in Cotton Eye Joe.
- Bebe has censorship but it was not added by Ubisoft.
- Songs created by Ubisoft
- Songs that were released in the game’s release year
- This is the only game in the main series that does have:
- A silhouette behind the coaches
- A scoring system with scores over 15000
- Dancers with only one color besides white (in this case, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Surfin’ Bird, and Womanizer)
- Percentage of certain ratings on the Score Recap screen (49% GREAT, for example)
- A similar feature was introduced in the World Dance Floor for eighth-generation consoles on Just Dance 2017 onwards; however, this gives the number of moves in a category (e.g. OK, x GOOD, PERFECT, and YEAH).
- A similar concept was reciprocated in Just Dance 2021 in single-player mode only when playing any song in the main menu.
- A similar feature was introduced in the World Dance Floor for eighth-generation consoles on Just Dance 2017 onwards; however, this gives the number of moves in a category (e.g. OK, x GOOD, PERFECT, and YEAH).
- Exclusively Solo routines
- A visual "1, 2, 3, 4" count before the routine commences (Just Dance Kids also has this, but it is not in the main series).
- However, several songs in Just Dance 2 have an audible "1, 2, 3, 4" countdown.
- Shake Moves (in later games there are Gold Moves instead)
- Just Dance Kids also has these, but it is not in the main series.
- 2D pictograms (from Just Dance 2 onwards, they are made in 3D)
- Just Dance 2 pictograms, however, were initially designed to resemble those from the previous game.
- Every pictograms have a arrow pointing down.
- None of the dancers in the trailer for the game made an appearance in the actual game, as they were only there for promotional reasons.
- However, the routines they performed were used.
- The German version has many incorrect spelling mistakes in lyrics and menus.
- For example, it says "Gepielte Songs" instead of "Gespielte Songs" in the song-overview menu.
- Scoring was a huge issue, as it was not at its full potential at the time. Hand movements often were read incorrectly and gave you a score of "X" or "OK". The scoring was fixed in its successor and other successive Just Dance games.
- Because of this, a maximum score of 20,000 is unachiveable.
- If one score over 10,000, a gold border will appear on the menu icon. If one score at or above 15,000, a gold border with a crown will appear on the menu icon.
- The song Funk Brass Remix by Laurent Lombard plays during the credits.
- If the game is played on a hacked console with the language set to Japanese, all in-game text (save for song titles) will disappear.
- All the songs have remakes found in the Just Dance Now files except for Groove Is in the Heart.
- This is the only game in the main series that is playable in both normal 4:3 and 16:9 widescreen aspect ratios. This is because this game is designed to be played in 4:3. Starting with Just Dance 2, the aspect ratio is forced 16:9.
- In Just Dance 4 Mashups and Party Master Modes, every Just Dance routine has a Just Dance 3-styled extraction (excluding Wannabe), including routines that have not been in any other game.
- This was the only game in the Just Dance series to use the Jade engine.
- This game does not have a single map that is rated “Hard” on Just Dance Unlimited or Just Dance+.
Beta Elements
For a full list of Just Dance’s beta elements, see Just Dance (video game)/Beta Elements.
Gallery
NTSC box art
Alternate NTSC box art found on the GameStop website
PAL box art
PAL (ANZ) box art
Icon from the Just Dance 2020 sticker album
Throwback Thursday promotional image
Game Files
"X" feedback
"OK" feedback
"GREAT" feedback
Shake Meter
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Behind the Scenes
Videos
Just Dance - Rabbids' application to the Contest
All Star Weekend play Just Dance
Just Dance™ Awareness Video Wii™ Video Game
Just Dance Easter Bunny video
Just Dance Announced and GamesCom 2009 Trailer
Just Dance - Credits
Just Dance 1 Demo - Menu
References
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