What Is Dance Dance Revolution?

- Dance Dance Revolution is a video game unlike any you have ever seen before. You actually get to dance on a stage to the beat of various songs. This is one of a new lineup of music games by konami known as the
- On the stage there are buttons one each for up, down, left and right. On the screen it tells you when you need to hit these buttons with your feet. The closer to being in sync with the music you are, the better your score. Also available is double mode where you play both pads for one person. You have to switch back and forth in the middle of the song.
- You can control the difficulty by choosing a different song, or choose one of 3 difficulty levels for each particular song, so it can be easy enough for beginners, but can be difficult enough even for someone whose entire life is ddr. The difficulty is ranked in feet, from 1 to 9, 1 being beginner, 9 being catastrophic. Not all levels are available from all songs, but most songs have fairly easy and fairly hard difficulties available.
- What is so fun about ddr is that you get to dance along to mostly techno music wihtout having to really worry about being able to dance. After a while of playing, however, you can develop your own style, and it actually looks cool for others to watch. Some people will always think it is dorky, but many people are genuinely impressed by good ddr skills. This is especially true if you learn some special
- In addition to the fun factor, ddr is also quite a workout. On harder difficulty songs, you will easily sweat and get out of breath. As a matter of fact, in the home usa version of ddr, there is actually a
- DDR started out in Japan a few years ago, where it was an instant hit. It has only recently made its way to the united states, at least in a legal form. Many people play imported versions of the game from Korea or Japan, where ddr has better song selections. Since getting to America, demand for the game has well exceeded supply both for the home version and for the arcade machines. To my knowledge, ddr is most popular in Asia (Japan, Korea, etc), Canada (primarily Alberta), California, Las Vegas, and Texas in that order. I may be wrong on this, so please don't bite my head off about it, it's just what I've observed.
- I hope this answers the questions, if not email me for questions that still need to be addressed. Thanks!
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