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Jackalope
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Location: San Marcos, Texas |
0.  Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 5:51 am Post subject: DDR on the front page of SomethingAwful.com |
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Just thought I'd let you know.
Here's the relevant part of the article, for those of you too lazy to click on the link:
| Quote: | So what else was there to play? Sheer terror, in the form of Dance Dance Revolution and the countless gimmick games it had inspired. If you're not familiar with DDR, it's basically Track and Field for the NES but with lower quality music. There is a large pad with buttons for you to "dance" on while trying to keep in time with the music. This is an act that (depending on your skill level) either makes you look like Frankenstein trying not to step in lava, or someone that takes dancing way too seriously and hopes other people are impressed.
Part of what draws people into a game like DDR is the unique way in which you interact with the game. By focusing on a gimmicky controller, game makers hope to catch your attention more effectively than they could using an ordinary game cabinet with a joystick and buttons. There are now games in which you have to slap bongos, rub babies, punch dairy products, and wiggle your eyebrows suggestively at seemingly harmless hedges.
To be honest, standing in the arcade by myself and being surrounded by all these games with ridiculously elaborate controllers had me feeling out of place and slightly angry. I missed the way things used to be, but perhaps I was being narrow minded. After all, I was one of the people who stopped coming to the arcades, and was therefore part of the reason they had to resort to gimmicks in the first place. Instead of being a curmudgeon that couldn't let go of the past, I decided to give the new arcade experience a try. After wandering around confusedly for a bit, I finally settled on a machine that looked promising. For four grueling minutes I tried my best to score just one combo. I danced my hardest and flailed my arms as wildly as I could, but it was all to no avail. That was when I realized I was in the men's bathroom standing at a urinal. I was pretty ashamed, but not as much as I was when the Japanese kid next to me got a better score. |
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Zukin-Man
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| 1. Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Cocaine's a hell of a drug. =B
I think he's jealous and had to take it out on the kid in the next stall over. 
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Reenee
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| 2. Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Whatever. What was more funny were those animated cartoon porn texts. High-larry-us. |
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G-type
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Joined: 10 Jun 2004
Location: Heber City, Utah. |
| 3. Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Damn people. They get pissed because that can't play the game and tell everyone that it sucks and is extremly Gay. Just adds more meaning to the phrase: Practice makes Perfect....
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thefluffybunnyofdeath
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| 4. Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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I got pissed off because I couldn't play the game, too.....Then I went and bought it.  |
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Spike
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Location: Denver |
| 5. Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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OMG you saw DDR.
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