The music is made of primarily popular Latin music songs rather than common or traditional samba. Samba de Amigo draws on Latin American culture and its gameplay involves the player using controllers shaped like maracas to match a series of patterns displayed on-screen. A port for the Wii was also developed by Gearbox Software and Escalation Studios and released in 2008. The game was released in arcades in December 1999, and for the Dreamcast video game console in 2000. Samba de Amigo ( サンバDEアミーゴ, Sanba de Amīgo) is a rhythm game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega.
