What began your DDR legacy?

bluesoul · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject:

The boys from Paducah took home first AND second place in that tourney.

PxDn Freestyle: My Summer Love - Light (49MB)
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Lenny (retired) · Trick Member Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Location: SW = FnG?

my friend brought me to the arcade a couple times and i saw people doing it... at first i made fun of it but in the back of my mind i thought, i really wish i could do that.,.. so one nite i was just messin around and i tried it on beginer and did my own freestyle on it... by the end of the nite i was doin 2-3's on light and i was officially addicted....

Sh4d0wD3v1L · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Location: Marz, Wisconsin

well for the last 2 years i've been watching people play ddr and one of my friends is into it and i figured "whatever let's try this" so i got h00ked like rite away just looking at the step charts. now all i need is to find a phreaking ddr machine because all we have around here is the crappy remake board and it's 5 quarters to play

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[S4U] Evo · Trick Member Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: El Paso, Tx

back in late 2001 early 2002 i saw some people playing DDR, doing stuff like afronova on light. Now, i NEVER made fun of them, ever, and i really liked it although i never had the courage to try myself. I saw it a while later (late september) and decided to try it (the machine was DDR USA) and its funny because, you know how newbies dont automaticly get the subject of the game? i was FCing songs on beginner mode

i found another place that had 3rd mix plus and it started from there

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Sephiroth Clone#1 · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject:

I started out with a freind of mine introducing it to me around August of last year.....I despised it at first...but eventullaly I got the hang of it and started playing it often.

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onewhostepsonlights · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 2:24 pm Post subject:

i really started playing on my last trip to tulsa(springbreak) and me and my friend went to this place called "fun house". it had two machines, 4thmix and extreme. i played once that night and then i had to go...the next day we went back and i spant about 20tokens...after that i was addicted.
now i just play in the arcade to meet new people(girls hehe)

ddr://sk8er · Trick Member Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Location: Michigan

My DDR legacy started at my cousins 13th birthday party in august. It was at a Zap Zone. And Im like well I'll try it and man did I suck! But now look at me! Im doing Heavy!

BandoMan · Basic Member Joined: 13 Jun 2004

My friend was hooked on DDR forever. I knew her for a year and we met up one day last month at the arcade. She asked me to play with her. I tried it willingly, always thought it looked weird yet fun. I was instantaneously hooked. That same day I had DDRMAX2 and a dance mat ordered. And here I am one month later already managing some Heavy songs.
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Kaleigh · Trick Member Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Location: Whole New World

I was at a birthday party in May 2002, and I saw some guys (a couple who would turn out to be some of my friends as time passed on) playing PIU. I was interested, and bought a soft pad, DDR USA, and DDR Disney Mix. That's how it started... I'd later go to an arcade and play 3rd Mix, run into a lot of local people at a tournament... and the list goes on. I'm grateful for the things DDR brought to my life.
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DoesNMatter · Trick Member Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Location: Fremont, CA

Well it all started at Frys

Cause it was free. Me and my friend went there for some games and then we saw DDRMax. So I was so excited cause I wanted to try it. Well since I was a noob back then, I didnt know how to work the controls. So I accidently played Remember You and it was girlish song I walked away, but few days later I came back. I played light mode and how i played was kind of funny. I just kept hopping up and down which was sort of a good start. But as I progressed i gotten better and bought myself a pad and konamix then max then max2. I started like a 1year and 1 month ago. Now everytime i see and play remember you on heavy. I feel real good

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xequar · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:54 am Post subject:

For me, it started back in 2001...

Squiggly wavy lines...

One of my friends at college was the type that had far too much money for his own good, loved videogames, and always bought something that seemed new and trendy. So, when DDRUSA was released on the Playstation, he, of course, instantly bought it and hooked it up in the lobby of our buiding so everyone could try it. When I passed Boom Boom Dollar, I was hooked.
About a year later, I bought metal pads of my own and later got a Japanese PS2 so I could play more DDR. About six months ago, I finished college, and now I am at the local arcade every day.
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DMcCalli88 · Trick Member Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Location: Chicago, IL

ah yes.....i remember it like it was yesterday.....hehe. anyhoo, i started about 3 1/2 years ago when my best friend's brother randomly found a DDR first mix for PS. we thought, "hey, why not?" cuz we are both in theatre and musicals. i failed miserably my first attempts, but something about the game made me want to keep going. so, i bought my own pad and a copy of konamix and became what some people might call "obsessed" after a little while. then, when we were at six flags a little bit later on, i went into the arcade and noticed that they had a DDR 3rd mix machine and decided to show off a little bit. (woot woot.....showing off basic difficulty skillz lol) but the crowd that i got even for that was something that i really like b/c i never get crowds in arcades or anywhere else for that matter. so, i kept playing and playing until i got as good as i am now. and i am hopefully still improving. *knock on wood*
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friend: "why do play DDR?"
me: "have u seen the women that play?!"
friend, after seeing women who play DDR: "so THAT's why you play. lucky SOB."
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Slim Bisquit · Basic Member Joined: 18 Jun 2004

(year(s) ago) I was watching king of the hill where the overweight kid made a girlfriend by playing a DDR type game...... if only that could happen in real life... THen at my local arcade there was this game, Dance Dance Revolution Extreme ' odd name ' i ts like that thing i saw in the FOX show! Where there was this man (20s) that was just moving supperfast inbeat to some techno music i couldn't understand the words. thought it was cool but i know i couldn't do it. Well weeks latter i was watching South Park, where the was this asain kid that was playing.. .GAH there it is again!! so i was walking down a diffrent mall and turned to an arcade with, none other than DDR right at the entrance. i enserted $.75 and chose begginer (my first time!) well i saw arrows at the bottom of the screen and started hitten them, i didn;t know what to do!

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THE NOT AS LONG AND NOT AS BORING STORY AbOUT WHEN I GOT DDR MAX2; the tale of a newb@
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AJMY · Basic Member Joined: 02 Jun 2004

I myself started 2 years ago when I was burning a hole in my pocket at EB. They had thier little PSOne with the monitor hooked up at the desk. I picked it up and a demo for Konamix was on. I tried it and instantly loved it, even on a controller. (I love music games ^^) I found out about the pad and such and got it a couple weeks later. What was funny though was for about a year I thought PARANOiA basic was humanyly impossible. (I hadn't been to an arcade with it or seen good people since about 4 months ago) I didn't hit Trick mode till about a year and some months after playing it (I know how you feel slow learner). Now my friends tell me to shut up as I attempt to discuss it every day... ^,^
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k4t3 · Basic Member Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Location: Austin, TX

Let's see.. I started playin about 2 1/2 months ago. One of my best friends had had it for a while before me but I never really played with her - I just knew she was pretty good. Then, one day, we were both at an arcade (that, lo and behold, had a DDR) and she made me play with her. Instantly, I was hooooked. I had money saved up (not for anything in particular), so I went out and bought DDRMAX2 for PS2 and a pad. So after 2 1/12 months, I'm on standard. Go me.
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lelliebunny · Trick Member Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Location: redmond, wa

i first played because rampage kept asking me if i wanted to. so, i did it to shut him up initially. this was back in late 2001. i don't remember the mix, but he accidentally hit afronova as the song. yikes! i was scared! i would play a few games here and there. i started playing "for real" in march 2004.

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Gsmurf · Basic Member Joined: 09 Jul 2004

I was at putt putt with one of my friends 2 years ago. I saw two guys who at the time were insanely good (and I hear still play at the same putt putt). They were playing some 6 or 7 on standard. I thought, "HA! I CAN DO THIS!" I hopped on and went straight to heavy. I chose LoM. I got a AAA on it my first time!!

....Ok, as nice as that would be here's the truth.
Graduation
Beginner
Failure.

I forgot about DDR and about a year and a half later saw it at the movies. I was ready!

The song: We will rock you.
The level: Light
The Grade: Failure....I might've gotten one perfect if that.

The 15 people crowded around me left whispering in each other's ears. I was furious! I vowed that some day I would get revenge on this DDR! Another 6 months later I decided I must tame the beast! I begged my parents to get me DDR for Christmas, and they agreed. Just last December. The legacy began. I worked in this harsh climate, suffering many hours to reach the top of the mountain known as DDR! Now, 7 months later, I can almost pass MaxX Unlimited (failed about 3 seconds before the end, WHY GOD?!?!).

and that's my overdramatized story of my DDR legacy.