Dance Dance Revolution World Endurance Record Broken

Posted by simoniker on Monday December 1, 2003 @06:33PM from the up-down-up-down dept.

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 37&#189 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, 17&#189 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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Of course by flikx · 2003-12-01 19:49 · Score: 5, Funny

What else is there to do in Bend, Oregon??

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Re:nice by pkaminsk · 2003-12-01 20:22 · Score: 3, Funny

51 beats/sec is considered low these days? Wow, I really gotta get my heart looked at.
Finally... by Seraphim_72 · 2003-12-01 21:47 · Score: 4, Funny

...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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Re:371/2 hours?! by Paradise+Pete · 2003-12-02 03:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Wow, that's almost 31/2 days!
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