Samba de Amigo is one of many Sega franchises that the company appeared to forget about. Originally an arcade rhythm game, it was ported to the Dreamcast and later the Wii before disappearing. Which ...

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The sound of drums fills the large room as dozens of dancers and musicians wearing green and yellow sunflowers trickle into the second-floor ballroom of the Eagle’s Lodge in Olympia. It’s a sunny, ...

Samba de Amigo: Party Central marks the return of the rhythm action series with a playlist that will get you and your friends moving thanks to 40 hits from the world’s most popular genres including ...

Sega shook up the rhythm game genre in 2000 with the release of Samba de Amigo for Dreamcast. The game let players shake a pair of dedicated maracas controllers to the beat of Latin bops like Ricky ...

During the halcyon days of the Sega Dreamcast, gamers were awash in dedicated gaming peripherals. We fished for bass (and flexed in SoulCalibur) with Sega’s fishing controller. We typed zombies to ...

Since the pandemic, amateur musicians have flocked to the Brazilian percussion ensemble Miamibloco and built a community around samba in the process. After months of pandemic isolation, a lot of ...

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The Samba de Amigo franchise has sat dormant since 2008 when it was revived for the Nintendo Wii. A decade and a half later, the arcade rhythm game franchise is ready to reintroduce itself once more.

For the first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance. The new dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting ...