How did you start DDRing??!

local 808 gurl · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject:

i started DDR when i first saw it at a funfactory in hawaii. i tried playing it but i was really bad the first time. after that i only played it sometimes but then i got into it again.

Rara · Trick Member Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Location: Baraboo, WI

I had actually heard of DDR through a different message board, and thought, "Hey, I should try this out!" So I found the StepMania site and got a few stepfiles. Good LORD, I was dumb--I didn't know you had to wait til the arrows hit the top before you would press the corresponding keys. X);; By the first night I stepped onto a pad, though, I had figured out what to do. The first night I was ever on a machine was Easter of '03, just barely passing Boom Boom Dollar on Basic/Light. Now here I am, able to pass many an eight footer... X);
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mastergd · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 9:10 pm Post subject:

a few months ago, after reading an atricle about DDRMAX2 in egm i got thinking. im really out of shape, i dont eat right and well just standing up made me dizzy. i wanted excercize, so i ordered it from www.ebgames.com with the pad bundle (i saved maself $10

) about a day before it was suppost to come in, it came. so i played af my friends after skool (im 2 lazy to explain wat how i get home, and where i gotta go after skool) and we hook up his ps2 in the family room and i watch him play. he was pretty good bc he played at his cousins, and i played on light and i did ok.... i passed but i, well SUCKED. blablabla, later that night i finished lesson mode and i was good enough to do decent on light (even as a noob beginner mode was petheticly easy for me). 2 months later (today) i can do 6-7 step songs, and im frequently attempting catas, and songs i cant do, bc i love the challenge. (the sad thing is my friend got it for this christmas, and he is close to, if not equal to my skill level) now im working on getting supplies to making my own home pad, and thinking about modding my ps2 to import DDREX.
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Tsinay Butterfly of AIM Ü · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:49 am Post subject:

Back in Fall 1999 my bro brought home some import CD-Rom version of DDR for the computer (along w/ BM98, an old school version of Beatmania). He installed them into the computer, and I had no idea what these games were, but I liked the music.

Played the games on the computer, not realizing what I was doing.

In March & April of 2000, I was shown the actual DDR machine by my bro & my boyfriend Eric. I saw what it was, and I was curious. I wanted to try it out, but not just yet.

Summer of 2000, I played the import DDR computer game a lot more, and then on July 28, 2000 ... I stepped onto my first ever DDR machine: a good ol' 1.5 mix @ Camelot Golfland in Anaheim, CA.

I've been playing ever since ... well over 3 years now haha!

I'm still playing, and continuing to improve myself. Not that much of a tech person (though I am currently working on doubles PA) ... I'm more of a freestyler.

Oh wellz ... L8z!

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It's Ambah! · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject:

i started DDR after the arcade traded Dance Freaks for DDR Extreme, so i said "hey, they look about the same, but now i need foot-eye coordination" so yeah, that 's how, but i miss Dance Freaks though...that i do
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JaMKrazeV4life · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

At New Years, I was at a friend's house. And there is where I was first introduced to Dance Dance Revolution. DDRMax2, to be precise.

Now, I had heard plenty about DDR, but never played it because of two reasons.

A. Nobody had it I knew.
B. It was expensive, if you included buying game pads.

That just changed. I went out today with two friends, bought DDRMax2 and two pads. And well, I'm loving it. The sore calves, the light panting, and the frustration of missing a beat. At new years I was playing on beginner mode because, frankly, I sucked. I went through the lessons today, and am working through light difficulty. It's tough, but I love it already.

wingzerogundamepyon · Trick Member Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Location: Rogue valley

8th grade field trip, ddrusa...stomp to my beat over and over again on beginner, i played about 4 times, then never played again...until

seeing 2 fast 2 furious, being with my little (omg i dare you to _________) middle school friends, and about 6 girls surrounding the machine to get me back into playing

I played R&P on extreme about 6 times that night, and was hooked. I went to the nearest EBgames and traded in my busted ps2 ($100 credit wewt!) and got konamix and 2 pads..

6 months later I can pass all but three 10s and have nearly 70 heavy/oni AA's

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Agilab · Contributor Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Location: Baltimore, MD

I first saw DDR played at my friends house on the home pad/1st mix combo pack. He was not the person I pictured dancing, EVER, so I laughed my butt off the entire time he played it and regarded it as stupid. This was in the summer of 2001. Over the years he kept buying more mixes and I would get bribed into playing them and eventually getting bribed into driving to near-by cities to play on the machines. In early 2003, we got a machine in my home town and I played more and more often.

Now I'm fairly-well known to the Mid-Atlantic/New York DDR community because of my awesome tournaments (crossing my fingers for another one soon) and the rest (as we shall say) is history......
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tempest6 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject: How Did You Start DDRing?...

April 1999: I checked out a place called Cyberzone Arcade in Koreatown in LA, CA, after reading an article on a Featured Token from a magazine called Tips & Tricks (Editor is Larry Flynt from Hustler). Tried playing Have You Ever Been Mellow on Basic Mode, failed miserably & started to leave the place. If it hadn't been for a player named Jenith (Bum Suk) telling me how to play the game, I would not have been here. And the rest is history! Is that a trip or what? Please reply, over! Thanks!

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NCDS · Basic Member Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Location: San Francisco

It was the end of Summer 2002. I was at a friend's apartment working on a comic. He went to meet another friend where DDR was. I tagged along and I gave it a shot. I would've given up if it wasn't for my first date with my fiancee. We got together to practice/play DDR. Over a year later I'm doing at least ONE Cata and she's doing.. well, just Light/Basic songs.

Oh and the crowd keeps me going. I don't care if I mess up tho'.
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Beginning N¡gger · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:01 pm Post subject:

It was after I went to see a deceased friend at the cemetary with my other friends. I knew of DDR, but never played it. We went to Peter Piper afterwords.I was watching, to afraid to play, so my friend was tired of me being chiken, so he pulled me on, and now I can't get enough.

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red shoe paul · Vivid Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Location: Location:

i started playing from my friend super steve! he brought be go goodtimes and told me to play back in the olden days. ahh, i loved it.
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Too_Cold_Scorpio_DT · Trick Member Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Location: San Ysidro, Ca

After I broke up with one of my girlfriends I was out of it for a while and needed something to occupy my time so I wouldn't think about it. I started playing a 4th mix machine near my house about 6-7 months ago. I did ok and later on i ran into my best friend from high school. He was into ddr too as I found out. We started playin together and been playing ever since. And I've met so many people through it I never regret starting playing ddr..

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ddrm · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: CO

my frind had me play it about between 5 and 6 years ageo and I liked it so I keept playing
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can pass almost any song on any difficulty setting weather it be first time seeing it or a old fave