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Dance Dance Revolution World Endurance Record Broken
Thanks to GamesAreFun for the news that 17 year-old Drew Gamble has broken the Dance Dance Revolution world endurance record by continuously playing the rhythm-action arcade game for 37½ hours. According to the story: "Initially started as a joint effort with his 16 year-old friend Chris Machado at the Space Balls Arcade in the Bend River Mall [in Oregon], Gamble danced on a Dance Dance Revolution Extreme machine for twenty hours after Machado was disqualified." A report at the Bend Bugle gives more detail, as it appears that "...around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, 17½ hours into the effort, Machado unfortunately was talked by some in the crowd to try a faster-tempo song, and couldn't keep his... feet hitting the right lit arrows in sequence." Fortunately, "Gamble soldiered on by himself, sticking to the slower-tempo songs, for the slow and steady win the race."
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Is tylenol and bengay allowed in marathon video gaming?
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For those of you that will choose not to read the article, money was donated to this event for an outreach ministry that helps homeless or abused pregnant teens. So, at least the whole thing isn't THAT sad. :P
"Each time you smile, it'll only last awhile. Life may be scary, but it's only temporary."
17 year-old Drew Gamble has broken the world "I am possibly the most pathetic human in the world" endurance record by continuously playing the rhythm-action arcade game for 371/2 hours.
Though maybe he's in training to do some weekend raving once he gets to college. Playing 37 hours of DDR while taking crystal meth and surrounded by strobe lights...now you're playing with power.
El riesgo vive siempre!
Check out the picture -- he's just some regular kid. I was expecting a more... athletic type, I guess. You know, someone who has greate endurance from running cross-country all through high school, or something.
Nope -- he looks like a regular video-gaming kid, but with superhuman determination.
I hope those shoes were comfy. Probably not, though, after 37 hours.
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Forget the accomplishment, it's amazing that he "endured" actually playing DDR that long!
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What else is there to do in Bend, Oregon??
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Wow, that's almost 31/2 days!
Now the kid who danced for so many hours can now rest his feet which are probably going to be sore for a week to say the least. :D
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In other news...
Well, wait, I guess there isn't any other news. No wonder we actually found the time to run this story.
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...someone us geeks can look down on, I mean yeesh, here I thought some OS development was an utter waste of time...
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Give me a G of meth and 100 hours, and Ill make this kid look like a sloth...
...he just couldnt afford enough drugs.
Good Lord! He's not even Asian. ::sips his boba::... it's a sad day for Orange County.
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
At their 9 a.m. break, the teens said they were pretty much numb from the waist down, she added.
HEY-O!
Space Balls Arcade? Bend River Mall? What next? Planet-of-the-Apes Hollywood?
I think the all-time low is 28.
I think you should qualify that with "for a healthy person" (or even "for a living person").
...that so many of you are sitting at your computers posting on slashdot about how pathetic this guy is because he played ddr for 37 hours for a good cause. What this kid did was awesome and worthy of praise, not scorn.
Rock on DDR playin', money for charity raisin' kid!
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he did all the dances on the easiest mode. The one where the steps come at you like a lazy snail. Maybe 15 arrows to an entire song, which may last anywhere between 2-3mins.
It's nice that he did this and all, but it's no endurance record like they make it out to be. There are very clear records of people doing 20+ hours with only a break every 8 hours(15mins) on standard. Which to say the least is vastly more difficult.
I've played DDR for a long time, and from the sounds of things, the only thing this guy endured while playing DDR is boredom. He didn't play any especially fast or difficult songs, so basically all he did was move his feet every 3 or 4 beats to another pad. Which is incredibly boring yes, but not an endurance record by my standards.
Now if he played Max 300 at 9 Feet for 37 1/2 hours without missing a step, then his feat would be worthy of a record. But all this shows me is he's some loser with too much time on his hands and a low enough mental capacity to withstand the utter boredom endured by playing the really slow songs on DDR.
Hell, if I wanted to, I could play "Have you Ever been mellow", while programming on a computer, or reading slashdot. These songs are stupid easy for anyone who knows the least bit about music. (1...2...3...step...1...2...3...step)
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I have to see this thing in action, and probably won't get to an arcade anytime soon! I am curious about this game,
but all the sites with videos are dead links....
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"but if you were a musical..."
... gotta be more specific!!!
Hmmmm...I'd say it depends on the musical. I mean, if I were say 'Cats' or 'Oklahoma', I'm not sure that would improve my knowledge of note-playing difficulty. Maybe if I were the 'Phantom of the Opera' or even 'The Music Man'. Then I'd probably get it, but not just any musical
Personally I'd want to be 'The Wizard of Oz' or even 'Jesus Christ Superstar', except for that whole getting crucified thing or maybe...wait...did you mean something else?
Here's a video of part of this guys marathon run....
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the most amazing part of this story (to me) was that it wasn't some little asian kid like I was expecting when I read it
Of course he crushed them up and snorted them all while 'booty bumping' for that lasting effect.
But at least he's not taking 'bad' drugs....