On The Evolution Of Dance Dance Revolution

Thanks to Gaming-Age for its feature discussing the continued popularity of Konami's Dance Dance Revolution series, which starts out by noting "the DDR series now has had nearly 50 different releases, all territories figured in", and interviews Konami's Yasumi Takase about the possibility of being able to use any music CD in a DDR game ("Having access to your personal music CDs is great, but coming up with your own step data for these songs is not so easy unless you are an expert player"), before talking to female DDR player 'Lyra' about her views of female players ("We do tend to have a lot more guy players than girls, the only girls we ever get are people who either try it out once, or sluts who are trying to get a guy.") Elsewhere, DDRFreak points to an academic essay on the history of DDR (PDF link), produced for Stanford University's History Of Computer Game Design class.

Comments

Girls playing DDR

[mhesseltine]

So, if I see a girl on the DDR, she's either a virgin or a slut? 50/50? I like those odds!

Re:Girls playing DDR

[Anonymous Coward]

well you certainly can't loose.

If it's a slut, I'd be willing to bet a few quarters that it'll be "loose." =P

Realism

[Poster Nutbag]

I say the next development in DDR should be realism! Possible enhancmements include:

-Stick-o-matic floor to simulate drink spillings
-Automatic overpriced watered-down drink vending machine
-The Claustrophobinator(tm), a modification that brings down a heated padded wall to simulate crowd proximity
-Long bathroom lines

Mod Parent Up

[Pluvius]

I still play DDR, but this covers my thoughts about that quote exactly. Besides, you could easily say the same thing about most of the guys that try DDR.

I'm willing to bet that Lyra is one of those female anime otakus who couldn't imagine actually having sex with a real guy, so she's obsessed with yaoi drawings and Harry Potter slash fanfics.

Rob

Re:Jealous?

[billcopc]

Me, I got out of DDR because of the community. At first it was fun, we had this little 'clique', everyone knew each other by nickname and there were perhaps a dozen of 'us'. Then the teenies got into it and brought along all the trouble that hormonally-confused teens represent. The whole scene turned into a sex-politics mess, people getting excluded from events because they had dumped so-and-so, or were fscking a non-DDR'er. It got really fricking WEIRD.

And then the arcade moved to a new location that's 10 miles farther and I just don't feel like driving 45 minutes to play a game. So I started playing occasionally at the local cinema, where there is no 'scene' and it's just a bunch of passers-by and amateurish kids drooling to death as they admire my lee+ s+epp!ng sk!LLz and ask in amazement "how can a fat fsck like you pull a max combo on that ?"

And then I kick the living poo out of them and sell their internals on ebay. Hence the absence of a 'scene'.