Naturally this meant that it would be released only in Japan, not unlike the case with Mother 3. The first game in the series was released on the GBA in late 2006, making it the last game that Nintendo developed for the system, and later in arcades as a joint project between Nintendo and Sega. The series is a collaboration between Nintendo (specifically, the team that develops WarioWare) and Tsunku♂, a music producer known for heading the Hello! Project.
Rhythm Heaven, known in Japanese as Rhythm Tengoku and as Rhythm Paradise in European languages, can best be described as WarioWare meets Elite Beat Agents.
