How did you start DDRing??!

Chefy911 · Basic Member Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Location: New York

Edit: your right ...So did you guys know that Techno Music is what got me into DDR?? what got all of you into DDR?
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Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

I fail to see what this has to do with DDR.
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Remy · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Astoria, NY

You're lucky you got that edit in 2 seconds before I was going to lock the thread.

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Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

OOOOOOOOOOO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO!!!!

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DJX · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Location: CA

Ah the eternal question that has been posed 1000 times...actually more like 3571 (which is a very nice, prime number). Well I was at a friend's house and noticed two odd looking pads with arrows on them. When I asked what they were for, he pulled out Konamix and showed me. I played for the next 2 hours. Now I can't stop playing. It's pretty hard typing this message in fact, what with all of the bouncing and...fine, I'm not really playing. Stop laughing at me! ::cries and runs away::
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O NOES!!!1 its Nitsuki!! · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Miami, FL

[quote="DJX"]Ah the eternal question that has been posed 1000 times...actually more like 3571 (which is a very nice, prime number).
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good count man

but i was inspired by the A-Team, i was inspired to freestyle, now i'm techie, i can still freestyle, not like i used to tho

Dr. Claw (MountaineerMix) · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:31 pm Post subject:

i had heard of it and thought it sounded goofy but interesting... then one day i saw some guys playing in the lobby of my dorm on a PS2 with home pads, and i watched them for awhile... and they asked if i wanted to try, so i gave it a shot. i thought it was kind of fun but nothing i'd ever get serious about... then i came home and found out that some of my friends had started playing, so i tagged along with them and tried it at the arcade... and now i'm completely addicted, currently going through withdrawl, and planning to start driving the 50-something miles down to Hickory every few days to get my fix.

Cintifizzo · Trick Member Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Location: California

isnt this exactly like ddr flashbacks????
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J.R. · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 6:10 pm Post subject:

I started playing when I saw ZGUY playing I was watching him and was like Oh my!So when he left I tried it on beginner mode on DDRE and that was too easy so I moved to light and the rest is history!
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Chaddlyr3 · Trick Member Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Location: New Orleans

The first time I played i was at boomtown's arcade practically all nite. Me & my cousin were there. ... N e way she had been watching ppl play it all nite, while i said how stupid it was.

An hour before closing time she made me play it, & like every1 else i'm still hooked... going on a year in 2 months

DJ Tau · Trick Member Joined: 03 Sep 2003

I went on holiday to meet a bunch of online people (unrelated to DDR) over the end of July/start of Aug. Anyway one of em who's a proper DDR nut took me to an arcade and played for a bit, then I think I decided to have a go. Or maybe he made me play, I don't remember

Anyway he pointed out a bunch of songs for me to try and quickly corrected all the common faults, I was making pretty fast progress. By the end of the trip two weeks later I'd just passed Dam Dariram on Standard; my first six-foot.

Unfortunately over here DDR is very expensive (1 pound, ie $1.50 per game). Had I carried on at the rate I was going during that holiday I'd be on Catas by now. As it stands I'm just breaking into 8 foots (Defeated: Love Shine, B4U and Still In My Heart Momo so far)

samuchan · Basic Member Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Philadelphia

I had a best friend who spent the summer in Japan. He came back with 3rd mix. I couldn't pass light songs for life of me. I bought the first USA mix, then the friend gave me a burned copy of 3rd and 4th mix. I spent a full year playing on light. Then I accidentally put Kick the Can on heavy and realized "Hey, I can do that!" Of cousre, this was after getting the "turn your body this way" lesson. 2 years later I pass my first 10 footer, BaG.
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W1Ck3D · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: CT

i read about it in a game magazine when it first came out so i always knew what it was , just never knew how to play it or seen an actual machine. i went to the arcade i hang out at and seen people playing the one of the 3rd mix machines and my thought in my mind was "HOLY SH*T WHAT GAME IS THAT?" so i put a coin up (yes i knew the coin line b4 ddr) and i went up on my own. 2 seconds into "rock beat" i think and..... FAILED. after that day i immediatley bought the home version (konamix just came out) and now have been playing for a year and 1 month now.

LET ME SHOW YOU THEM · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:08 pm Post subject:

Way back in fall of 01..my new girlfriend (at the time) told me to try playing usa mix on her soft pads at home..my reaction "what the hell is this?"..i failed pretty badly

fast forward to july 02, after i moved to where i am now..i saw ddr when i was out and was like "hey..i remember that"..so i played some that summer..then quit again. fast forward to february 03..i started playing alot (and we just got max2 around then) and i've been playing ever since..(tons lately)
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Max's Period · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:19 pm Post subject:

*at arcade*
Ohh, hello, what's this?
Sees dancers.
Me wansa try!
'nuff said!
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Kristobal · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 5:39 am Post subject:

well, while on vacation, I was in an arcade in florida and I saw a machine similar to DDR. it looked quite interesting, but I didn't want to try it because I was way self-concious. but every time I walked by it it seemed to call to me "play me.....play me.....play me..." so I did. of course as a complete noob I failed the first time, but I wasn't phased at all and I wanted to try even more. a couple days later we went to another arcade (XS Orlando) that had two DDR machines and since we had a few hours, I decided to play on them. I was officially hooked that day.
next time I go to florida (sometime next year) I'll be sure to go back to that arcade.
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Beginning N¡gger · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 8:22 am Post subject:

My "Friend" got me into DDR, but that was when they had Max2, no beginners, just light, but I didn't like playing infront of crowds, it took me like 6 months to get over them and get better.So in other words took me a year and 2 months to get where I am today.
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KiMMery · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 9:53 am Post subject:

Aww...I love telling this story. In the summer of 2000, when I was eleven, my family and I were vacationing in Toronto, and one of our stops was Playdium. It was the first time I'd ever been to a Playdium, and God, was I ever in my element. I was wandering around the main floor, and I came to the simulation games section. And that's when I saw this guy - I figured he was about thirteen or fourteen - who was dancing on a platform (it was 3rd Mix). I stayed a distance away from him, but back then my eyes were still good and I could see that he was following the arrows on the screen. It intrigued me, and I just stood there, watching him finish the song. When he did, he noticed me there and asked if I "played". I shook my head, and he let me come up on the platform with him. He didn't explain the game very much to me, because it seemed that he thought I'd be good at it. He chose the song "Butterfly", and I was doing so bad it would probably be funny to me today. I ended with a D. But this guy had real faith in me. And that's when I "started".

I never got his name, and I never saw him again after that. It's unlikely that I ever will. But it was a totally cool experience for me.
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TrOgDoR89 · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject:

To tell u the truth im not sure how I offically got into DDR. But when I first knew what the heck it was when I was at a friends house and two of them were playing DDR (i forget which version

) not with the crappy pad thingies but with the controls in the living room. I was watching them play and I guess I was drawn to it somw how since I didn't really play videos games as much and when I did play I played fighting games

. But when I got a chance to play it I played it at the arcade at six flags. Since then I think whoever came up with DDR is a freakin genius!!!!!!!!!

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sl4ck0ff · Trick Member Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Location: long beach

damn this gose way back this was the time ddr first started i was at santa monica and i went to the arcade by the peir and i saw these 2 guys freestylin yeah and few more days later i got the american mix
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