Official IN THE GROOVE Thread - New arcade dancing game!

esotericlete · Trick Member Joined: 22 Aug 2002

The fact is, only a very small number of songs have Hands. There are more songs with crossovers involving freeze arrows (Afronova style steps with freeze arrows), like Oasis, and Utopia.

Many people are complaining that drastic additions to the game cause it "to suck" and ruin the genre. All these changes have been added in moderation, and are designed to cater to a wider variety of players. There are extremely (read: ridiculously) difficult songs; but again, this only represents a relatively small part of the game. There are other difficulty levels, other songs, and in general, stepfiles have not been made for them, because people like to play ridiculously hard songs on Stepmania.

I'm confident in saying that if you like DDR to the degree that you are willing to pay to play it in the arcade, you will enjoy playing ITG, and be glad to see it show up in an arcade near you.

Tsuri · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject:

I hope they make an ITG for Technomotion machines... it'd be nice to play a new music game with the features of Technomotion

(and it'd get arcades to buy TM machines!)

jbean3535 · Trick Member Joined: 08 May 2004 Location: KC Kansas

So what are the locations now...?
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Rancidfish · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject:

Still just the three test locations:

1) Illusionz
Issaquah, Washington,

2) 8 on the Break
Dunellen, New Jersey

3) Putt-Putt
Hurst, Texas

The game hasn't been released yet, but it should be soon. Roxor is being secretive about their projected release date, it seems.
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esotericlete · Trick Member Joined: 22 Aug 2002

The "final" test version was installed on the Illusionz machine last Friday. It seems the final testing is primarily revolving around assuring that USB memory sticks are functioning as expected.

esotericlete · Trick Member Joined: 22 Aug 2002

Technomotion machines have 9-Panel, so that, and being able to switch between DDR-Style and PIU-Style steps was interesting. But it was incapable of rendering jumps correctly (it put them down as Tsugaru-32nd notes).

That, and numerous other peculiarities doomed it to failure:

http://home.comcast.net/~whatispi/techno.jpg

zeno · Trick Member Joined: 23 Apr 2004

I just watched a couple of the movies...I sure hope people don't mix-up the Utopia dwi I made for stepmania a while ago with the ITG version....

Rancidfish · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject:

Holy crap!

Supposedly, somewhere in New York got it. linky Does that mean they're shipping? Or does that mean that there's been some sort of misunderstanding? (I hate rumors.

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Gendo3 · Trick Member Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Location: Fort Worth, TX

Holy Flipersnippers!! I've been playing this game everyday for the past month, and had no idea that it was a pre-released test! I assure you, that this game, is greatness! it has, like 70? songs, and can get Maddening in difficulty...

L'amour et la liberté 悪 · Trick Member Joined: 17 Feb 2004

Sounds like a good idea i guess

3DR · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jul 2004

Heh, I wanna play the 12-footers.
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ninjafetus · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:16 am Post subject:

And that journal said they started shipping on 8-30-04 ^_____^
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Rancidfish · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:07 pm Post subject:

JohnnyDynamiteUSA · Basic Member Joined: 25 Aug 2004

I hope one of the lame arcades near me gets ITG. As of now it's just some crappy extreme plus bootleg. Maybe I'll have to make a trip to Jersey.
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ninjafetus · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:35 am Post subject:

Rancidfish · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:45 am Post subject:

I'd love to have started early, but the arcades that I frequent that seem likely to get it if pestered are all a minimum of 90 miles away from me right now. I'm home from school until the spring.

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DDR1guy · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:15 pm Post subject: Itg

Narrows does indeed have In the Groove. It cost a buck to play 3 songs or 4 on marathon mode. Sadly, though they got rid of PIU

they moved an extreme machine to where PIU used to be.

Hopefully when they get rid of para para they will get a pop n music game

-Chef- · Trick Member Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Location: Manalapan, NJ

final version was released
and to my knowledge my picture is in the credits as part of the 8 on the break crew ;D

im the only black guy there xD

but damn i didn't know they were planning a 2nd version already
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Rancidfish · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

Of course they are! They know it's going to be their number one game, so they have to keep releasing versions to keep making lots of money.

I've just heard that two kits are being shipped to California! HOORAY! ...but where?
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