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At the risk of sounding geeky

Laughing yet? Good! That is funny.

I have recently discovered ddr (that's Dance Dance Revolution for those who never heard of it) and it's more fun than jumping on a pad to house pop music ought to be. Good source of exercise for the nasty winter days when running outside is not an option and the treadmill sounds about as appealing as writing CS I projects.

Next time I'm in California (CT Is amazingly arcade-poor) I'll have to visit an arcade and make a fool out of myself in public on a nice, metal pad. (Hi Matt!)

(Stats? I'm getting As and AAs in "light mode" songs but still have problems with "standard mode".. I'll get better!).

Posted by kasia on January 29, 2004 08:24 PM |

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Comments

Wow, you mean there's people out there who *don't* already know what DDR is?

Posted by: fluffy | January 29, 2004 09:18 PM

Seeing a DDR expert performing in the flesh is a profoundly scary experience.

So much movement, so little time, I can't see their feet!!!

/me goes for a lie down

Posted by: insin | January 29, 2004 09:54 PM

Fluffy, yes, and I think I know most of them.

Posted by: kasia | January 29, 2004 10:13 PM

Know of the "game" but not the acronym.

I think Milford and Trumbull mall's have them - don't know about places further north.

Posted by: Randy | January 29, 2004 10:16 PM

There is a free PC-based (no Mac from what I can tell) appication called DWI (Dance With Intensity). Check it out:

http://dwi.ddruk.com/about.php

Of course, you have to get a dancepad somewhere if you want to use more than just the keyboard.

Posted by: Zher0 | January 30, 2004 08:16 AM

There is a dance pad for the PS2:

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/adux/konamipad.html

Posted by: Riz | January 30, 2004 08:31 AM

For the extra geekiness/dorkiness, you have to build your own hard pad. My roommate is currently building one out of oak. It'll be a nice finished, stained piece of furniture by the time he's done.

Of course, being college students, we have little else to do with our time.

Anyway, welcome to the DDR club! We're glad to have you! (ddrfreak.com is a useful source of information: especially with their arcade location database)

Posted by: Eddie Williams | January 30, 2004 08:31 AM

There is a free Python version of DDR. They have been causing geeks to look scary at the Linux Expo the last two years.

http://icculus.org/pyddr/

Posted by: Oktay Altunergil | January 30, 2004 12:05 PM

I just started DDR last month and I'm totally hooked. Slowly working my way into Standard mode these days starting with the easier red foot songs. In about 6 months I'm definitely gonna get me one of them newfangled metal pads.

Posted by: Shawn Liu | February 6, 2004 09:55 AM

yeah DDR is the bomb. just watch out for those advanced dances--you can hurt something...

Posted by: brandt | February 6, 2004 03:15 PM