Bishi Bashi


Bishi Bashi is a series of Konami video games for arcades, mobile phones, PlayStation and Windows. All games in the series comprise playing through a wide variety of competitive minigames against other players. The arcade games support 1 to 6 players and the PlayStation game allows 1 to 8 players; the game will provide computer opponents if there are not enough players.

Arcade games

The arcade games released so far include:
The arcade game controls are very simple; each player has a red, green and blue button, positioned left, centre and right respectively. Each minigame explains its controls before play commences. Some titles of the series, however, make use of a steering wheel, two joysticks, a dance pad, or a spinning button for the controls instead of the 3 buttons.
The★BishiBashi uses the yellow button in most mini-games to finish the mini-game before time runs out or to score additional points. BishiBashi Channel'' replaces the green button with a larger one that can be rotated, and some mini-games require players to rotate this button.

PlayStation games

Some of the minigames from the arcade games have been ported to the Sony PlayStation and released under the name Bishi Bashi Special. Salaryman Champ has also been ported to the same console.
Unlike the arcade game, the ported minigames do not always use the red, green and blue buttons of the PlayStation joypad; "button bashing" minigames allow the player to use the analog sticks or the shoulder buttons as well as the regular buttons.