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Dance Dance Revolution Spawns TV Show

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dick-clark-it-ain't dept.

lfescalante writes to mention a unique synergistic melding of television and gaming: A Dance Dance Revolution TV show. From the article: "Dance Revolution, said all parties involved, is a live-action television series based on Konami's extremely popular video game franchise Dance Dance Revolution. Notes published by DIC and Konami describe this series as one in which 'tweens' and teens bring their freshest moves to this sensational new dance competition where teams of dancers display their innovative routines."

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  1. Re:Tweens by 16punches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    tweens = in between being a little kid and a teenager, i.e. big enough to not hold hands crossing the road, but too little to go anywhere anyway. This leaves lots of time to creat cool DDR routines with your friends for television shows.

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  2. Re:Bad Idea by 4D6963 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    TV shows need a certain amount of plot. This has none. Same goes for American Idol and other scum.

    Didn't your last statement demonstrate that you don't need a certain amount of plot for a TV show to be successful? (because American Idol is successful, you can't say it's not)

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  3. Watching TV != DDR's Goal? by jkeyes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought DDR was about getting up, moving and maybe getting some exercise and not sit around watching TV. So by making a TV show about getting up and moving isn't that somewhat counterproductive to DDR's intent? I mean I know it's only 1 30 minute show and they're probably watching TV anyway but still it's like those informericials (which is what I'm expecting this to be) for exercise equipment I mean if you're up at 2 AM watching it I really really doubt that $250 ab sharpener, butt tightener and tanner in 1 is going to help.

    1. Re:Watching TV != DDR's Goal? by darthgnu · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Nah, this is just another show to get people to feel bad about themselves. TV these days is just about watching people that have more money/talent/life than whoever is watching. I'm just glad I missed the whole "OMG 1TS REAL TV" bandwagon. Meanwhile, i'll just stick to my MythTV box dedicated to SF and other non-"reality" shows.

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  4. Caution = success by Travelsonic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I love DDR, and In the Groove (*pulls gun away from Konami exec*), butthink that a TV show has to be done just right. If it promotes playing the game then the serries could make the game a lot more popular, but overkill and it will not be allowed to grow into a genre and die like Pokemon did, with every other spawn just as bad as the next (unlike DDR spawning RoXor's AWSOME In the Groove 1/2/upcoming 3). I look foward to watching this, but hope they do it right.

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  5. As I always say... by Stormwatch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tee vee? What's that? Oh, you mean the screen to which we plug the game consoles?

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