how did you first get involved? (school project)

btrain0087 · Basic Member Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Location: pa

so for my school, to graduate, everyone must complete a "senior project" its a truck load of work to put on top of an already busy senior year. well i wanted a fun topic so i chose weightloss + ddr. i've been playing it everyday. good times. well anyway along with this stuff i gotta make an isearch paper. basically a paper answering a question you ask at the beggining of it. i said "what goes on in the dance dance revolution community, who belongs to it, and how do people get into it?" something of the sort. so i figured i'd come on here and make a thread asking how people first started the game. if this thread is successfull this will be my first of many threads for the project.

i guess i'll start it off?

a friend of mine in a computer class talked about it to me one day. said he plays it everyday for his xbox and its the most fun game he has. i talked him into loaning me a pad and his max2 disk. from there i've been hooked.
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Tetris_Death · Basic Member Joined: 03 Aug 2004

Well, I met this girl at a party and hit it off. We hung out the next day at her friend's house, and they had a couple cheap plastic pads and Konamix. From there I played at the arcade a lot and with my girlfriend's little brother when he bought a metal pad. Now I own my own metal pad with 2 DDR games and planning to buy Ultramix 2 when it comes out.

Red L!NK · Trick Member Joined: 27 May 2004 Location: Anderson SC

they put a DDR EX in the mall in my town.
Bone Daddy, Bowlby, & me walked by and stop. . . look. . . and said "thats so gay" AAA(who works there) said "no its not this game Rocks!"with in the week we had to play it

that was about 1.5years back.
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tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

Guy recommended it to me bout 2 years ago. Simple "OMG YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS!!!" And I did.
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Tuxeedo-Mole · Trick Member Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Location: Northfield, MN

back in february, all my friends started playing it, but i didnt really start till may. I got into it, bought max2, some pads, and just started playing.

It's 6 months later and now i can pass most songs on heavy, with the exception of a few 9's and the 10's.
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Ryudori · Trick Member Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Location: New Jersey

A few years back, I saw some guys playing and just said to myself "If I ever decide to play that game, shoot me." I kept that mindset for a while until the more I watched, the more I decided it might be fun so I got Max2 and a mat for my birthday 5 months ago and have been playing ever since.
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Onigumo · Trick Member Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Location: Pennsylvania

Well if you want to get technical, I played DDR for the first time a few years ago at an arcade around here cause I saw like 4 or 5 people around a machine so I checked it out to see what all the fuss was about. I didnt really get into it though. A few months ago my friend came over and he had DDRMax2 and mat with him. We played it for awhile and I ended up buying it myself.
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Blackeye · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject:

Well My friend told me about it and i thought it was relly stupid but then i saw it one day and thought "Hey thats DDR I'll get it just for fun and then i really got into it" Hop this helps
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CaptainCraka · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:44 pm Post subject:

Went to a freinds house, and he had DDr. Went on from there.
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LastVampiel · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

Played in DisneyQuest Orlando, initially because I thought, 'Man that looks lame', and I do'n't like making comments without trying something first, so I thought, 'Why not give it a go to confirm my thoughts?' Now I'm addicted.
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(pinky) · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Location: Augusta GA

i went to my local aracade and i saw my friend play it and i asked him what it was like and he said it was cool and told me to try it for my self. so i did and i liked it so i started to play regularly.
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RevenG-D · Trick Member Joined: 07 Nov 2004

I saw some guys at the sony meteronplaying and they were realy good and i thought "thats cool i wanna get good at it"

NW330 · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject:

Saw a number of 3rd Mixes and people playing. I was thinking "I could never do that." I meant physically not that I didn't want to.

Found a 4th Mix near my house where I could practice without worries of looking like a goof.

3 years later I can do PSMO Double.

sanoshi · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Location: Knoxville TN

Some friends of mine had been playing it for quite some time and I decided to try it a few months ago. I loved it and I bought max2 and a pad and began to play everyday. Now im 17 lbs. lighter and having alot of fun