The first place that you played DDR

[bemaniboi]

someone might have already said this but where was the first place you played DDR? My first time was at boomers on DDR extreme. I played bag on beginner and only got 2 greats the whole song.

[Orion.25]

My first time was June 29th, 2001, Flamingo Hilton in Vegas (Solo 2K)... Haven't seen another one since, but would like to (for nostalgia purposes).
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[Clover]

The first time I played was at my best friend, Kelly's house. She had told me all about it and I had NO idea what it was. So, I went over there and played fourth mix, 1, 2, 3, 4, 007 was the song, to be exact. Yeah, I stood there half way through the song and just watched the arrows go by. I didn't understand that you have to put the moving arrows into the still arrows by using the corresponding arrows under my feet!
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[L1nK]

My first time. (That can be misinterpreted). Salina, KS. Silverball Arcade at the Central Mall. 3rd Mix. Can't remember what song, but it was on basic. Didn't know what in the good green world to do. Well, I knew I had to step on the panels, unlike Clover ( ). But I didn't know you had to wait till they get to the top. I just stepped off instead of failed. Also, I have never used the bar except for bar hops.
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[santAAA]

At a friend's house. He had DDR USA and i remember i played boom boom dollar on beginner. I got an E and that that it was good (i thought there were all letters of the alphabet for grades).
I also remember that after two months i thought i was really good for getting a AA on Dub-i-dub beginner
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[YoshiFan]

May 2001, in my basement when the first US PSX release of the game with the pad bundle came out.

First time playing in the arcade was July 2002 on the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk at Playland. It was 3rd Mix Korean 2 with the difficulty set all the way at 8. I picked Butterfly Upswing Mix and failed almost instantly.

[tempest6]

April 1999: Koreatown, LA, CA! I heard about this place by looking at a magazine called Tips & Tricks (published by Larry Flynt. Ha!). One of the featurettes was the Token Of The Month which showed the token of Cyberzone Arcade in Koreatown. That was when I saw the DDR 1.5 mix machine out there. Tried the 1st song "Have You Ever Been Mellow"; didn't know what I was doing, and almost left the DDR scene for good. If it hadn't been for a player called Jenith (Bum Suk) who told me how to play the game, I would have given up on this game long time ago. And the rest was history! Is that a trip or what? Please reply, over! Thanks!

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[VinceB]

May 2000, the first place i played ddr was at my house. I was browsing import games with my bro at a store and we saw ddr 1st mix. My bro played it before and we bought. Then we got the dance pad and i got totally addicted to it.

[Dr. Landluver]

I first played at julian's arcade in Phoenix, Arizona. I played Mambo #5, and failed almost instantly as well, becasue I had no idea what to do. I just hit the arrows a lot. Go me

[whereamIô_ô]

adventure landing florida 3rd mix i sucked
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[Khaki_29uk]

London Troc! Butterfly all the way!

[SnorSnorEXT]

First time I actually played DDR was when I was at a skating rink. Awesome looking machine :P Anyway, I played and then failed, of course. Then some friends went on to play it, and since none of us were good, each person would take over an arrow, and step on it so that the song the could be passed, lol.

Then I played a different time at Time Out and accidently went to Oni Mode. Sadly, the left arrow scroll button didn't work so I was out of luck. Well, 3 seconds into the level I fail, haha.
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[b0mb baby]

I first played at a ddr machine in Disney World.. I can't remember what mix it was and it was in the toy story pizza arcade thing.. failed miserably of course..
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[Shinmizu]

Konami's display at the Fall 1998 Tokyo Game Show.

[Ansiroth]

october.. november ish... it was a USA machine, i think the song was El Ritmo Tropical o_O
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[J.R.]

1 month and a half ago,DDRE,Rexplex,Elizabeth,NJ.So Deep heavy B,flash in the night heavy B,Exotic Ethnic not yet.
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[Misaki's Midnite Blaze]

Oh man we'll never forget the day we saw DDR

98 - 12 - 20 at the Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo building in Tokyo, Japan meeting our Uncle's Co-Worker and we noticed the game in their mini arcade center. At first we were completely stressing out over the fact that we couldn't dance for nothing ;;; the first song was Midnite Blaze and over the time we spent at other local arcade centers, wasting a good 3000 yen trying to get better and amazingly improving ^^

And now we're Maniac Dancing Freaks of Nature ^^
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[TeeHee! JP ONRY!]

April, 2000-Six Flags Magic Mountain-DDR USA, ahhh yes I remember paying 1 buck doing songs on begginer, the first one I passed was Boys I think those were the good old days...but now 3 years later my love for DDR is still the same as back then
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[Louieee``]

mine was at a uci cinema, i was always playing workout mode at home so i thought expert (heavy) was easy i went to the arcade chose eotc expert.............you can pretty much guess the rest

[Shinmizu]