Who invented it, where did it come from?

Enix · Trick Member Joined: 05 Oct 2004 Location: Tucson, Az

Okay, Everyone says that DDR comes form Japan, but whats the real history about Dance Dance Revolution? sure, ou may be able to name the company who first mass produced it, but I want to know the details like the names of the people who developed it, original concept by and whatnot. I have heard so many diffirent stories behind the history, as a community, we should esablish a definition everyone knows about so that people from the future like robots will know where it came from.

At this point, i'm just babling, so if there is a n official thread this is it. I thought of a cool title like "The officail History of DDR" or "DDR Past, Present, Future." Oh and a note to the administrators, every time I search for somthing like "The history of DDR, my computer frezes up, and I get a recursive BSOD. THat's just my computer though, don't punish me for my crappy computer. (cowers in defence)

Pandemonium · Trick Member Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Location: Swansea, MA

This is a great thread for me, since Iâm doing a report on the history and the technology of DDR. Please, post all you know!

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ZephyrGlaze · Trick Member Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Location: Las Vegas, NV

DDR was first conceived of in the early 1900s. The ghost of Thomas Edison had been recently resurrected (again), and Ghost Eddy was looking for a way to get his name back out in the public. Looking at the time's rapid expansion of modernization to an urban and suburban public, he couldn't help but think to himself "I wonder how the power grids will keep up."
Now if you remember, Edison was actually a big fan of DC (direct current) power, isntead of what we use today (alternating current). His vision for the times was a combustion powered DC generator on every street corner (as DC voltage weakens greatley over the distance it travels).
As a new scheme to make DC the standard across America, and enable the country to provide power for itself unburdened, he decided that his next invention to be a human-powered generator.
Electric bicycles were too boring an idea, or any motion that repetative. Instead, he devised something like his recently devised "stairmastor" concept. Instead of taking power from rotationg a staircase, why not just have someone step on a conductor that would change the electric potential etween two panels, which could be used to generate current.
He encased 8 of these as two diamond shapes into a metal casing, and began testing how much power he could get from them. He quickly discovered that stepping on the panels in a rhymic fashion, and alternating which panels he stepped on gave him a more optimal power output.
For the next version of his new invention, he devised a way to encourage the public that would run the stations to put optimal output. A gramaphone was fastened to the case (now called the "pad"), and matrix of bliking LEDs was placed in front of the "stompers." Over the years, this interface has evolved, but we can see that even iin Ghost Edison's days, the concept was still intact.
As a beta test for his invention, he set up power stations across the country, calling them Arrow Recreation Center And Direct Electromotivation centers, or simply ARCADE centers.
But for poor Tommy Zombie, America had already made its choice. The Niagra Falls power plant had shown the world that AC was the only way to get power across vast distances, and we would be cutting ourselves off from long-range transportation of converted natural energies (such as hydroelectric, thermal, and baby souls). They abbandoned Edison's fancies, but kept the ARCADEs in operation, finding that the public found them an entertaining diversion from their everyday lives.
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zero_delocke · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

True Story, John Bono?

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Enix · Trick Member Joined: 05 Oct 2004 Location: Tucson, Az

Ha^ That's my favorite story yet. good times my freinds, good times.

JMK173 · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Location: Minnesota

In that article where they talk about grading they say that a quad A (AAAA) can be received my getting all marvelous's. it seems to make sence but never anywhere have i see a pic or even heard anyone say AAAA. ??
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Den · Trick Member Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Location: Columbus, Ohio

It says in simulators you can get an AAAA. Not in any official version.

ZephyrGlaze · Trick Member Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Location: Las Vegas, NV

Oh, and a quick aside: when batteries were first being developed, the test chargings were being done with primitive DDR machines. But the inner workings of the batteries were quite fragile, and the power brought to them had to be very consistant (especially the smaller ones). The type of the battery is the lowest grade you could've gotten to charge the battery without charging it. This is why it's so much harder to find AAA batteries over AA batteries.
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angelfish1698 · Basic Member Joined: 30 Aug 2004

The only thing that I could say about DDR is that it came from Japan during the 1990s. It was invented by Konami with the support or help of Bemani to make an influence in the future technological generations.

I mean seriously I think it's about influencing people out there for 1) a change in their hobby 2) people who wanted to lose weight 3) finding something new to do aside from what they are doing now and 4) having fun... especially in the arcades (as in bringing back the fun in the arcades...). That's just my opinion about DDR... that's all

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tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

If you can't get an AAAAin an arcade, then how would someone find this out? Just so happened to get all Marvellous's on Roadof TaQ?
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goodtimesddr · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:03 pm Post subject:

You know what? It would be really interesting if they introduce AAAA into the next DDR arcade.
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Pantera · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:09 pm Post subject:

It's theoretically possible to get a AAAA, but only on Nonstop or Oni courses (since they have Marvelous above Perfect).

I've never seen it though...
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Halo001 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2004

[quote="Den"]It says in [b]simulators[/b] you can get an AAAA. [b]Not[/b] in any official version.[/quote] Maybe you can if you get all marvolus on an entire nonstop/oni course.
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!!!! · Trick Member Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Location: in a haus lolo!

No, you can't. Sure, it's possible to get all Marv's, but, any official game will only give you an AAA grade.
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Fr0sty · Trick Member Joined: 16 Sep 2003

Yes, to verify this, get on Extreme CS, turn on Marvelous, make an edit with one step, and see what you get. It'll say AAA.

J. S. Mill · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:20 am Post subject:

xxvxx · Trick Member Joined: 03 May 2005

why has the conversation strayed from the history of the game, to marvelouses?