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This article is about the first game in the series. You may be looking for the franchise of games to which this game belongs, or the live service platform that hosts Just Dance 2023 Edition onwards.

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.
There are 32 tracks in this game, all of which are Solo.
Song Artist Year Difficulty Effort Menu Square
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Cyndi Lauper 1983 1 2
GirlsFun jd1 cover generic
Ring My Bell Anita Ward 1979 2 1
Ring jd1 cover generic
A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Edit Remix) Elvis Presley vs. JXL 2002 2 2
Conversation jd1 cover generic
Cotton Eye Joe Rednex 1994 1 3
Cotton jd1 cover generic
Surfin’ Bird The Trashmen 1963 1 3
Surfinbird jd1 cover generic
Heart of Glass Blondie 1978 2 1
Heart jd1 cover generic
Womanizer* Britney Spears
(The Gym All-Stars)
2008 2 1
Womanizer jd1 cover generic
Groove Is in the Heart Deee-Lite 1990 3 2
Delite jd1 cover generic
Jerk It Out Caesars 2002 3 3
JerkItOut jd1 cover generic
I Like to Move It (Radio Mix) Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman 1993 2 2
MoveIt jd1 cover generic
Hot N Cold Katy Perry 2008 1 3
HotNCold jd1 cover generic
Mashed Potato Time Dee Dee Sharp 1962 1 1
Potato jd1 cover generic
Girls & Boys Blur 1994 2 2
GirlsBoys jd1 cover generic
Fame* Irene Cara
(In The Style of Irene Cara)
1980 1 3
Fame jd1 cover generic
Lump The Presidents of the United States of America 1995 1 3
Lump jd1 cover generic
Kids in America Kim Wilde 1981 2 2
Kids jd1 cover generic
Pump Up the Jam Technotronic 1989 2 3
PumpUpTheJam jd1 cover generic
I Get Around The Beach Boys 1964 2 1
GetAround jd1 cover generic
Le Freak Chic 1978 2 1
Freak jd1 cover generic
That’s the Way (I Like It) KC and the Sunshine Band 1975 3 1
Thatstheway jd1 cover generic
Louie Louie Iggy Pop 1993 1 3
Louie jd1 cover generic
Funplex (CSS Remix) The B-52's 2008 2 2
Funplex jd1 cover generic
Jin Go Lo Ba Fatboy Slim 2004 3 2
JinGoLoBa jd1 cover generic
Dare Gorillaz 2005 2 1
Dare jd1 cover generic
Bebe Divine Brown 2008 2 1
Bebe jd cover generic
Eye of the Tiger Survivor 1982 1 3
Eye jd1 cover generic
Can’t Get You Out of My Head Kylie Minogue 2001 2 1
Cantgetyou jd1 cover generic
Acceptable in the 80s Calvin Harris 2007 3 3
Acceptable jd1 cover generic
Who Let the Dogs Out? Baha Men 2000 3 2
Dogsout jd1 cover generic
Wannabe Spice Girls 1996 1 2
Wannabe jd1 cover generic
Step by Step New Kids on the Block 1990 2 2
Stepbystep jd1 cover generic
U Can’t Touch This MC Hammer 1990 2 3
UCantTouch jd1 cover generic

Warm Up

This track can be accessed via the "Warm Up" page of the game.
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) Chris Kenner 1962
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: 2000px-ESRB 2013 Everyone 10+.svg

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: PEGI3 Rating Symbol

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
  • 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.
    • 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)
    • 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, the maximum score is still unknown today.
  • 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.
  • In the files, some pictures are upside-down.
  • 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.

Beta Elements

For a full list of Just Dance’s beta elements, see Just Dance (video game)/Beta Elements.

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References

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