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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."
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."
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.
There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
What else is there to do in Bend, Oregon??
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
...someone us geeks can look down on, I mean yeesh, here I thought some OS development was an utter waste of time...
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
Oh really?....Say, you wouldn't have two tens for a five, would ya?
...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!
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
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)
~ kjrose