"I was so tired playing DDR once that I _______"

Raiv Xomby · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2005

Share a story of your extreme exhaustion moments playing DDR. Here's mine.

I've had a bad case of poison ivy lately, so I spend most my time on drugs, sleeping, or doing DDR so that I can't feel anything. DDR because of adrenaline and the other two for obvious reasons.

A couple days ago, I was half through Paranoia Rebirth on Heavy and my legs just stop moving. I had been playing for about 6 hours straight with 40 hours of no sleep, a 7 mile run for cross-country practice, and mostly 7-9 footers with a few 6's to take a downtime for songs. I didn't know what was coming until I was on the floor and my knees won't lock long enough for me to stand up.

The thing is, with distance running, you don't feel yourself being tired until the last second. You can't let being tired get to you in a race. You just think of all the rest you're going to get while your in the finish chute handing your number ticket to the counter.

The result of this is that I didn't brace myself in the fall and hit my head right on the corner of a table next to my television. At least it's a bruise that has a pretty funny story.

So...

...yeah...

ahkem · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:48 am Post subject:

Sofar my best (or worst?) has been playing for about 4 hours straight, my legs were starting to hurt, but I did not feel like quitting just yet. So I took a 5 minute break to spread icy hot all over my lower legs.

I got on the pad at near the peak of the hot part of the icy/hot working, blazed through afronova primeval on light with a b (my top score on that before was a d), then went on to whallop rhythm and police for another b (again d or low c was my previous record).

I was having endurance problems on those 2 songs but now I do fine on them without the icyhot.

psisarah · Trick Member Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Location: Toronto

I was exhausted one night after work, but I just had to play DDR. I get on, play a couple of songs, and notice the arrows look weird. Like really weird. I kept playing, and I was freaking out because the arrows were changing speed accross the screen. Thoughts were going through my head like someone spiked my drink at work or I had been hit in the head with a frying pan without knowing it. Still I played, and still the arrows kept freaking me out to the point where I thought there was something seriously wrong with me...

..Turns out I accidently turned boost on. I was still fairly new to the game so I didn't know entirely what the feature was. I know now.
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_Kai_ · Trick Member Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Location: Brunswick, OH

The first time I ever played, I was in a hotel arcade and was on the machine for 6 hours straight. Nono, I didn't hog the machine! There was another one right next to it that was normally empty

! Anyway, in the last two hours of playing, every 5 games I would dash up to the hotel room (3rd floor, elevators wern't working) to wash off sweat and cover myself in ice. This took about 5 minutes in the room, then i'd dash back down to the arcade!
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captaincolorblind · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:58 am Post subject:

I slept on the machine?

Another time, I slept on an inflated sofa beside the machine.
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kdermody · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:03 am Post subject:

Well mine is wierd sorta.ok i was playing some 7,8,and 9 footers for awhile at my local theatre then i felt wierd i went to order my drink and all of a sudden every thing went blury and every thing sounded like a whisper so i thought i will just go to the washroom but all of a sudden i was normal again. i think i must have allmost passed out but i do not know.

melkor765 · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:28 am Post subject:

i was playing paranoia suvivor max on heavy after playing 6-9 footers for about 6 hours. I almost got to the end ,but i ended up running to the bathroom in the arcade(it was more of a stumble than a run) and threw up for about 20 minutes, and my nose was also bleeding.

Another time, i was playing at my house on an Ignition pad, i passed out on a song i cant remember. i must have played for about 8 hours
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Raiv Xomby · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2005

The most annoying thing about chain playing DDR for hours is eventually you get so sweaty that you have to shower because it is running off your fingers and onto the mat. And that is just gross.

(PS - Don't sweat on arcade mats. It's icky and people can slip on it)

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Agent J · Trick Member Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: Dimension X

I was playing DDR at a movie theater sometime last year, after having gone at least 3 months without playing. For some reason, the thought that my stamina and endurance might have decreased didn't cross my mind at all. I hopped on the machine at immediately started doing 7s, 8s, and 9s, which I thought I was more than capable of. Within a few games, my feet started hurting like crazy, and to make matters worse, the only thing I'd had for refreshment was a giant cup of soda. I stupidly kept playing through the pain, stumbling back and forth between the machine and a drinking fountain. By the time I was done, I was so exhausted from the sugar crash and my legs and feet were in such pain and fatigue that I almost couldn't get back to my car. x_x

OniDo · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Location: Humboldt County

I played about three hours straight on 7, 8, 9, and a few 10 footers with no breaks in between, and I hadn't had anything to drink or eat that day, anyways, I had just finished LoM on Heavy and failed it, I'm dripping sweat at this point, I though I had enough energy for one more song. I thought I'd do a song that I rarely did, Can't Stop Fallin' in Love: Speed Mix, I was doing alright till half-way through the song and I got to the part where you have to do a bunch of half steps with one foot and I just collapsed and hit my head on....something hard. I just got up and left.
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Raiv Xomby · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2005

Hey, here is a second place ehxaustion prize.

Right now.

I'm on another insomnia binge so that I can sleep/wake at a good hour.

Still... I haven't collapsed, so I felt good enough to do Castles in the Sky on standard...

...with one foot.

(seriously, I'm really tired

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Alfredo_SC · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:06 am Post subject:

last time..i danced the maxes in my last game..i was already all tired so i went to my house (it is near)...but in the way i couldnÂ´t move anymore n' suddenly i fell..i appreciate that i had a friend beside me and helped me in the way to home

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Daabomb101 · Trick Member Joined: 09 Jul 2005

had a heart attack

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i keed i keed.

ummm well...i have nearly made myself sick a bunch of times...but i've never thrown up. one time it was like 90 degrees outside and i was playing in busch gardens (tampa) and i walked outside and felt like i was gonna pass out...but i didn't. but yeah...getting schweaty and nasteh and feeling like your legs will give out...and then randomly deciding to play max 300...that's like half the fun right there w00t

novamaster0 · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2005

90 degreese lucky I live in vegas it's 114 today and thats low as of lately I have a like 72 degreese A/c on and 2 fans in my room so I don't die from DDR ....

stil play my usual 1000 calories or more a day Though

though with the 114 I'm doing some home DDRing (just got a new red octane pad hard to find with the freaking lawsuit going on) so yeah

Saigo · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jun 2005

at a lock in i played all night long from 10 -5 before i suddenly fell over and fell asleep... yeah
then i woke up to my friend kicking me off of the pad literally

-dark-xuxa · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: illinois

um well at the arcade one time i was doing paranoia survivor max heavy and i got to the end of the runs and failed and this was one of the first times i got that far into i had also been playing for about 2 hours earlier so i was somewhat tired and i just fell down on the floor in the arcade breathing really heavy and a bunch of people were looking at me lol

bemani-man · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Location: Ridgeland, SC

Once, I gasped for air. Really loudly. Everyone found it amusing.

My friend has been known to vomit on the subwoofer when he gets really tired

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Special_ned · Trick Member Joined: 07 Apr 2004

The first time i played so deep i made it almost to the end, about 10 seconds away from finishing, and i just straight collapsed and was gasping fro air. My chest was tight and i was in a lot of pain for a few minutes but it passed. i couldnt move for a while though.
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Yarni · Trick Member Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Location: Chicopee, MA

Wanted to play more...

It was the first time that I passed The legend of MAX on heavy. (This was last year) It was at closing time for the arcade, so I was lucky to have chosen it so soon, (I chose Mahou no Tobira next, but they shut the machine off on the middle of it.) I had been playing almost all day. (Since I got there at 3:30PM until closing 9:00) I wasn't finished though. That night was the night of an "all-nighter" at a computer/videogame store called "X-Zone". They had Stepmania with a working pad and well over 1000 songs (which was a lot more than it would be today) I immediatly started playing stepmania. (Keep in mind that I only play on Heavy) I played almost everything, some songs were put on 1.5 music rate too. (that sure was hilarious

) I ended up only eating one slice of pizza for that whole day, and I also only went to the bathroom once, around 1 or 2 AM. I played until around 7:30AM, making for a total of 16 hours! (straight)

I got home after and I was filthy... but i was too tired to take a shower so I just laid down. I then had muscle cramps so painful that it knocked the air out of my lungs. I still wanted to play more though. (Yes, I'm addicted)

Alapalooza · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:35 pm Post subject: