Join the Revolution ...

[Dialectic]

... the Dance Dance Revolution, that is!

So I played DDR for the first time last night at a housewarming/Halloween party put on by a couple of our super-adorable white friends, and man, I was HOOKED! It probably also helped that I was good and buzzed and full of various types of candy and fajitas, but damn, I couldn't get it out of my system.

Today after dimsum, me and my boys went down to Pac Mall and I picked me up a DDR sensor bad and Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2.

This shit is OFF THE FUCKIN' HOOK! I'm on mission mode right now, and there are four levels of difficult: beginner, light, intermediate, and advanced, and I gotta say these "light" patterns are KILLER. I was sweatin' up a storm and dancin' like the world was ending!

Amazing. Simply amazing. I truly feel Asian now, and one with the kids.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, FOOS.

[evil_FUX]

You should talk to vhg about that. She's like a DDR queen.

[toml]

:lol:

D, so you're dancing like these girls here?

http://www.vimeo.com/clip=17911

[wzhao553]

Yeah! Bring on Ryan Conferido.

[little mixed girl]

ddr rocks~

that was my exercise in freshman yr...but $1 per game is too expensive for me...

[wzhao553]

That's why you buy it for PS2, silly! :lol:

[Tyger Durden]

...I truly feel Asian now...

hilarious! :lol:

hope this doesn't sound weird, but i like watching the dancers and hope they screw up and miss a step.

yeah, i wanna see if they are cheating in any way.

[elliott20]

oh man, I got some great stories about that.

Every summer in college, I used to go back to Taiwan and spend my summers there. The arcade was one of my favorite places to go simply because a lot of my Taiwanese friends hung out there.

It was during the time that DDR really started taking off in Taiwan and all sorts of DDR clones were coming out of the woodworks.

By this point you start seeing some pretty amazing displays of arcade game fanatical devotion.

I once saw a guy who was playing DDR in the arcade with TWO pads. That's right, he was playing a mode that required you to dance on BOTH player pads at the same time. And he was getting friggin' like, a bajillion hit combo on that.

What's even scarier though, is that this other guy walked up next to teh machine, and started mimicking every step he took with perfect precision. As if that wasn't wierd enough, soon enough, there were about 3-4 people all following the exact same steps and it looked like it was a friggin' DDR dance entourage or something. It's pretty funny.

I've also seen the same thing happen on a DDR-esque game called "Para Para Paradise", where there are 5 motion sensors above your head and you have to wave your limbs through them to activate it. The dance moves, however, are all based of the dance routines from a popular Japanese all girl group and that's where they draw the sound track from. The dance, is understandably VERY VERY feminine, what with little hand twirls and shakes and all that. So, you can understand how hilarious it was for me when I saw 3 guys doing the dance....