A hand-operated dancing machine wherein hand-operated percussion instruments are configured in an electronic manner to be operated for entertainment and generate a variety of sounds such as a tambourine sound, bongo sound, conga sound, etc., so that the user can frequently use the upper half of his body while he plays various games. The dancing machine comprises a plurality of tub input units for inputting corresponding hit signals from the user's hands, an auxiliary input unit for inputting a hit signal from the user's feet, a coin manager for managing the input of coins, a graphic controller for controlling the configuration of an image on a screen of a monitor, a sound controller for controlling the arrangement of percussion instruments' sounds and music through a speaker, an illumination controller for controlling the intensity of illumination of decoration lamps, and a central processing unit for centrally controlling the graphic controller, sound controller and illumination controller in response to output signals from the tub input units or an output signal from the auxiliary input unit for the control of the image configuration, the percussion instruments' sounds and music arrangement and the illumination intensity.