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Dance Dance Revolution World Endurance Record Broken

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Performance enhancing drugs allowed? by xenocide2 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is tylenol and bengay allowed in marathon video gaming?

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  2. nice by jtheory · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:nice by jtheory · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Sorry to reply my own post... just read that the other kid lost 90 lbs. from regular use of the game.

      And the kid who broke the record has a heart rate of 51 beats/sec. A low heartrate doesn't correspond directly to fitness level, but it is related.

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  3. okay... fuck. by MarvinMouse · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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