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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. 371/2 hours?! by NSash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, that's almost 31/2 days!

    1. Re:371/2 hours?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Its more than 10 hours short of 2 days you crazy asshole.

  2. Re:In Other News... by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    How is that in other news? It's fun to mock 17 year old kids who are raising money for charity and all BUT wouldn't your little jab be in related news?

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  3. Any sites with working DDR videos? by djdavetrouble · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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