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  1. Licensing for DDR? by yerricde · · Score: 1 · on Court Decision Favors Rambus

    its more about getting liscensing for DDR

    Licensing for Dance Dance Revolution? They'll have to ask Konami about that.

    Oh, you meant "Deutsche Democratic Republic"? Sorry, West Germany bought them out way back in October 1990, even before the Internet had a World Wide Web.

    Oh, you meant "double pumped SDRAM".

  2. just go to an arcade by MadHats · · Score: 1 · on Kick Your Input Device

    Konami has been cranking out these games for awhile now. DDR is a crude (though fun) example - recently I've been seeing more 'physically interactive' games that actually leave you in a sweat...

    There's a fishing game with a rod and reel (which left me scratching my head) and a police shooting one where you duck behind objects while targeting the baddies. Sort of like time crisis only moving one step beyond the "action" pedal.

    My personal favorite (not on konami's site yet it seems) is the one where you put on a pair of 'boxing gloves' and duke it out with a computer opponent, you actually have to dodge the opponent's punches! It even measures reaction time and calories burned (though I don't see how it does the latter without knowing the player's weight).

  3. just go to an arcade by MadHats · · Score: 1 · on Kick Your Input Device

    Konami has been cranking out these games for awhile now. DDR is a crude (though fun) example - recently I've been seeing more 'physically interactive' games that actually leave you in a sweat...

    There's a fishing game with a rod and reel (which left me scratching my head) and a police shooting one where you duck behind objects while targeting the baddies. Sort of like time crisis only moving one step beyond the "action" pedal.

    My personal favorite (not on konami's site yet it seems) is the one where you put on a pair of 'boxing gloves' and duke it out with a computer opponent, you actually have to dodge the opponent's punches! It even measures reaction time and calories burned (though I don't see how it does the latter without knowing the player's weight).

  4. Everybody who's tried DDR seems to like it... by lightspawn · · Score: 1 · on Is DDR Worth It?
    Even if it costs a dollar or more per game.

    Mind you, we might not be talking about the same DDR.

    On an off-topic note, games like this are rather easy to write; so why don't we have more of them? I'm sure someone has/will publish schematics + drivers to allow us to use DDR mats. And I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say the Linux community could probably use a better sense of rhythm.

  5. Originality isn't dead, it's just on vacation... by Zach+Baker · · Score: 3 · on The Future of Console Gaming
    Yeah, arcades don't have the wild variety of games as they did in the early eighties. This is not surprising, however, given that arcade games were insanely profitable and ubiquitous then. These days, the US market just can't support that much variety... forget lack of originality, it's more like lack of players, lack of games, and lack of arcades. Even the royalty of US arcade development, the Williams pinball crew, has drained their last extra ball and is now developing casino games.

    Even so, there's a lot of originality on display at the arcade, and it's essentially all imported. The last two times I went to the arcade, I played Crazy Taxi (love that game), Mr. Driller (a Namco puzzler), Jambo! Safari (another Sega gem), Guitar Freaks ("Play the guitar rhythmically!"), some Megatouch games (come on, they're cool), Virtua Tennis (yes, arcade tennis, and it's great!) and the incomparable Dance Dance Revolution. All quite original and almost all Japanese, because their arcade market is still doing well and they just tend to be more goofy, original, risk-taking developers. Unfortunately, only the big entertainment centers will ever have these wonderful games because they tend to be heinously expensive (another reason why so many arcades have died).

    Now, certainly, there was a fair share of fighting/gun/driving games like Tekken Tag Tournament, Dead or Alive 2, Silent Scope, Crisis Zone, Rush 2049, Ferrari F355, and Off-Road Thunder being played too. But let's not forget that there was a glut of maze games, space shooters and driving games in the classic era too -- there will always be popular genres.

  6. Originality isn't dead, it's just on vacation... by Zach+Baker · · Score: 3 · on The Future of Console Gaming
    Yeah, arcades don't have the wild variety of games as they did in the early eighties. This is not surprising, however, given that arcade games were insanely profitable and ubiquitous then. These days, the US market just can't support that much variety... forget lack of originality, it's more like lack of players, lack of games, and lack of arcades. Even the royalty of US arcade development, the Williams pinball crew, has drained their last extra ball and is now developing casino games.

    Even so, there's a lot of originality on display at the arcade, and it's essentially all imported. The last two times I went to the arcade, I played Crazy Taxi (love that game), Mr. Driller (a Namco puzzler), Jambo! Safari (another Sega gem), Guitar Freaks ("Play the guitar rhythmically!"), some Megatouch games (come on, they're cool), Virtua Tennis (yes, arcade tennis, and it's great!) and the incomparable Dance Dance Revolution. All quite original and almost all Japanese, because their arcade market is still doing well and they just tend to be more goofy, original, risk-taking developers. Unfortunately, only the big entertainment centers will ever have these wonderful games because they tend to be heinously expensive (another reason why so many arcades have died).

    Now, certainly, there was a fair share of fighting/gun/driving games like Tekken Tag Tournament, Dead or Alive 2, Silent Scope, Crisis Zone, Rush 2049, Ferrari F355, and Off-Road Thunder being played too. But let's not forget that there was a glut of maze games, space shooters and driving games in the classic era too -- there will always be popular genres.

  7. Originality isn't dead, it's just on vacation... by Zach+Baker · · Score: 3 · on The Future of Console Gaming
    Yeah, arcades don't have the wild variety of games as they did in the early eighties. This is not surprising, however, given that arcade games were insanely profitable and ubiquitous then. These days, the US market just can't support that much variety... forget lack of originality, it's more like lack of players, lack of games, and lack of arcades. Even the royalty of US arcade development, the Williams pinball crew, has drained their last extra ball and is now developing casino games.

    Even so, there's a lot of originality on display at the arcade, and it's essentially all imported. The last two times I went to the arcade, I played Crazy Taxi (love that game), Mr. Driller (a Namco puzzler), Jambo! Safari (another Sega gem), Guitar Freaks ("Play the guitar rhythmically!"), some Megatouch games (come on, they're cool), Virtua Tennis (yes, arcade tennis, and it's great!) and the incomparable Dance Dance Revolution. All quite original and almost all Japanese, because their arcade market is still doing well and they just tend to be more goofy, original, risk-taking developers. Unfortunately, only the big entertainment centers will ever have these wonderful games because they tend to be heinously expensive (another reason why so many arcades have died).

    Now, certainly, there was a fair share of fighting/gun/driving games like Tekken Tag Tournament, Dead or Alive 2, Silent Scope, Crisis Zone, Rush 2049, Ferrari F355, and Off-Road Thunder being played too. But let's not forget that there was a glut of maze games, space shooters and driving games in the classic era too -- there will always be popular genres.