Tell your story about how you started playing DDR...

[ChilliumBromide]

You play DDR and don't like TMBG. You must have horrible taste in music.
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I used to be active here lol

[dj_sammylvr03]

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I found one in my local mall.
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[[[Neon.Blue.]]]

When did you first start playing DDR? (and how long have you been playing)

1 Year && 3 Months Ago.


What got you to start playing? (initial interest)

My Ex-Boyfriend Thinking He Was The Best..


What made you keep playing?

[See Above] && I Like The Competition.. I Can't Let My Friends Get Better Than Me Now && I'm Almost As Good As The Ex Now
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I'm 14. I'm A Girl. I <3Heart<3 DDR.. Although Where I Live We Call It Dancing Stage, Or Dance Machines =] I'm Sort Of At The 9 Foot Stage.. A Few Easy 10 Footers Passed. If Yewh Have Any Tips For Me I'll Always Be Greatful.

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[ChilliumBromide]

[Agent]

I've been playing for almost 3 years (this birthday, July 24th will mark my third year). My grandfather introduced me to the game by buying me it the summer before tenth grade. I graduated high school this year. Now that he's passed away (this January) he is still an inspiration to me to get better.

[DDR125]

Well, let's see...

It all started in the summer of 2003. It was my sister's b-day/ My dad gave her DDR as a b-day present. Curious, I wanted to play DDR. She said no at frist, but then she let me because of my parents (lol)

I was immediately hooked. First song I played was...either PEACE OUT by DJ Nagureo, or ORDINARY WORLD by Aurora.

I kept playing because I wnated to get better and better, and pretty soon, I began playing songs outside of the light difficulty, and played at the Standard difficulty, then Heavy, and before I knew it, I was an expert at DDR.

I'm just not good at fast songs on Heavy over 200 bpm.

I have over five games of DDR. I can't wait until DDR Supernova 2 comes out.

[fullblade7]

Hmmm.. well it started one day i went out with my younger brother and some friends and we went to this arcade, i was playing diferent games untill i saw one of my friends (Andy) playing ddr, he told me if i wanted to try and i started playing ever since, this was when i was like 12 or 13 then i quit playing and when i moved to PR again i started playing again and i wont quit anytime soon, and yeah thats how i started
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[gggasped]

I lost my DDR virginity (not to use psisarah's phrase; I was going to say that anyway) in the summer of 2003. I had gone over to my friend's house next-door, and he introduced me to it. I was of course hella bad when I first started, and anyone who could do moderately well on Light was a miracle to me. But I developed an interest in the game, and as soon as I got an Xbox, one of my first games was Ultramix 3. It was a relief not to have to go to my neighbor's house anymore every time I wanted to play.

So I have been playing on and off for the past four years... meaning I will play obsessively for weeks on end, then get sidetracked on something else (such as school... blah! Always keeping me busy) and forget about it for a while. Once I had my own game I quickly surpassed my friend skillwise, and he still says to me "Aren't you glad I showed you DDR?" as if it makes him the master of the universe. I really am glad he did, though. Haha... he still uses the excuse that I play piano and that is why I am so much better. It helps to keep me on rhythm, that I already knew about quarter notes and eighth notes. But I think more so it is because I have natural rhythm, whether or not I play piano (which I do, although not expertly). But man, on some harder songs it doesn't matter how much rhythm you have, it's the stamina that keeps you up and going. (And how cooperative your pad is. xP)

[mequetrefe413]

When did I started? a bit more than two years ago.

How did it happen? Well, my brother and I were done playing pool at a local pool parlor that happens to own an arcade next to it, and while entering, I saw that the Beatmania machine (I think it was seventh or eight mix) was replaced by a Dance Dance Revolution Extreme dedicated cabinet. My brother since he is a pain in the neck challenged me to try the game before he did (he never did, because he prefers Reggaeton over Dance music). That machine was $.75 for five songs (and I thought it was for four), and yes, I started on beginner mode. It passed six months before I played again, and started to get serious about DDR, especially because of the weight loss stories.

For those in Western Massachusetts, I am talking about the Extreme machine at the Mad Maggies Virtual Arcade in Towersquare mall in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, but you can see me at times playing at times at Cyberstation at Holyoke Mall.

What do I think of Dance Dance Revolution? IT'S AWESOME!!!

what about their competitors: ITG have some great songs, while I have not seen an PIU Machine anywhere in Western Mass.

[Joe. :P]

lolol..
i started, like exactly a year ago, and i have a massive amount of AA's
[yeah that sounds like a lot haha]

i started cuz my freind edgar played in the arcade at the mall. i was interested in it and then i tried it on the computer. i got good and when i started i was on light adn could do very little standard. but i got to heavy in a month. 7 footers and stuff.

i got my first AA in a month and half. [now that i think of it, its pretty, quick..IMO] but it was an easy song last message so whatevz. after a while i bought extreme 2 and came with a mat so i played that at home and my grandma would get pissed cuz the floor shakes [its wood] and stuff. but watever, then i moved on to the arcade again and stuff. 3 months later i could barely do max 300...and from there i also started to try AAs and stuff.

8 months later i pass LoM extra stage and get a really high A on it...by now i can pass any 10 foot song id feel like playing, with a regular A. two months ago i got as good as owning at psmo every single time i play it. i lost count of how many times i've passed it. always with an A of course and all the rest of the ten footers ive passed easily too. :O

so now a year later i've AAed max 300 [this was recently, approximately a month ago [weee] ], and pretty much more than 75% of the songs on EXTREME arcade. and quite a few on supernova. its so fun now with supernova in town.

the only let down is that i have only AAAed once, and on home version [timing window as huge as, well, no need to explain...] but o well, its only been one year of playing..i guess thats good enough.
and nothings gonna stop me now

sorry for the long post..quite a story
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[mequetrefe413]

Interesting stories over here. It seems we all have the same love for Dance games, especially DDR.

Reguarding "AA"s and "AAA"s goes, I have plenty of AA scores on light and now piling up in Standard mode. My only AAA scoring was on "Look At Us Now" by Sarina for the DDR Extreme 2 game on PS2 (during mission mode in beginner mode lol)

[Joe. :P]

[daikenkai =[]

OK... I dunno if I posted yet but:

I was at my mom's friends house and their two [BlTCHY] daughters challenged me to play DDR on the controller. They gave me a broken controller, and when I was winning they pressed start-select. They claimed to "raise the roof". The next day my mom and their mom brought us to an arcade, and one of the girls wanted to didder. They sucked, they were sweating bullets on beginner and I was whooping them on light. ROFLWAFL.

Then I got out of the DDR phase because the girls made it look ghey.

Then my neighbor who is 5 years younger invited me to his birthday party at a mini-golf and go-karts place. I came, and we did didder. I did beginner at first. Then the next song I tried light. All was well, until I got too happy and tried Oni... Nightmare. So I went home and designed a DDR pad, that would end up to be the uber-phailed splinter. Then I created Photon, and I went to diddering on Supernova. The next month I had to go to my kid sister's gymnastics competition where she got a whopping 4th overall out of the best in state. She previously took 1st at Chicago. On the way back we stopped at Fry's electronics and I got a PS2 to USB converter. I diddered like heck until 2 months later when I kinda stopped.

4 days ago I started diddering again, and now I am tackling harder songs. I can A "Cooking by the book" on heavy regularly and I can now A max300 SMMM on light.

I will never quit diddering, I just stop and go. Currently I am stopping my pickle craving phase and will reenter in 6 months.

[PureBlue]

I probably already posted my story, but here it is again:
I originally started playing after my brother got DDRMAX + soft pad for his 11th birthday (he's 15 now) . When I first played it, I was confused on what I was supposed to do. My brother taught me the basics, and I was consistently passing songs on light within a couple of weeks (yeah, I'm somewhat of a slow learner). It took me a couple more weeks to get to standard, and by the end of the summer, I passed my first heavy song (Gentle Stress Sensual Mix). Then, the next year (2004), I became a respected DDR player at my local arcade (Crossgates Cyberstation). I mean, everyone seemed to like me, and admire me because I was so small at the time (like, 4 ft 2 and 50 pounds). That was seriously the best year of my life.

But in late 2005, I gave up on DDR. I put away all my DDR games, my metal dance pad (BNS metal pad, which is broken now), and pretty much promised to myself never to play DDR ever again.

I eventually broke that promise. Around Christmas 2006, I started to play DDR again, because I was sick of playing the same old games every day. Now, nobody really comments on how good I am, because I am no longer really small (now I'm 5 ft 2, and about 130 pounds), and because the DDR scene in my area is dead, sadly. There's nobody to do a few games with anymore. there's no tournaments, no hanging out at the arcade till closing; well, basically, nothing to do.

[daikenkai =[]

You can always attempt to do freestyle or act like a total n00b on the machine AKA flail around. Then some dumbass will come around and try to beat you and then you pwn them[/u]

[SN3S]

When did I start playing? Hmm, I think it was like a two years ago...

How did I start? Well, My church had bible study groups for the adults, and they had the idea of meeting up at the local pizza parlor to get to know everybody. Nsturally, all us kids tagged along. I was having funa nd all, but the arcade was really small; it's only highlight being a nice Max2 DDR machine.

At the time, I had no clue how or what DDR was, but I watched a few people play for a couple rounds, and I got the Idea. I noticed some of the adults liked to watch people play, and that the songs were really awesome. And it didn't look hard, so I wanted to give it a try. Too bad I was out of tokens.

But then, this one kid shows up, and he's like 3 years older than me. He notices that I wanted to play, and he offered to pay for me to play versus with him. So I stepped up, and played maximum overdrive on standard (Why I never started on light I won't know...). Got a B, and then we went for the nest song. Got a low B on the whistle song, the adults start watching. We played another song, but I can't remember which. It didn't matter. I was having more fun than ever. After that, I would whore out the DDR machines whenever I could find one. After a year or so, I started to play heavy, and I passed my first Cata (Break Down ^.^) Today, I'm working on my PA (Still haven't gotten a AAA yet... let alone a SDG...)
and the harder songs (Lasted till the end of PSMO's deathrun today...)

Why Do I keep playing? Well, at the time DDR had a great community.

There wouldn't be many people playing, but the ones who did were good. I remember this one guy, carlos. Man, he was great. He could pass PSMO, and AAA quite a few songs. Even though he was really good, he wasn't all that arrogant (Like some of us, lol ) He showed me how to improve, and he was there the day I passed breakdown and tsugaru. But then he had to leave for army training, and I kept playing all summer, and I improved. But then I saw these two guys playing at the arcade I went to. The were almost as good as carlso, but they weren't all that nice. At first. But after a while, we kindof got to know each other, and I found out that they ran a club for DDR in our town. After a while, I went to meetups and such with them, and I'm still good friends with them and the whole community in my town. I like how so many different people can come together over one thing, and how it helped us get to know one another more. Also, I love how much variety DDR has. Before I met them, I would always play the techno and "manly" songs. But after meeting carlos and jimi, I started to play other songs (My first AA was on love shine, lol) And I began to see the depth DDR had. I remember a month ago, the place I first played DDR shut down, and my friend joey's parents bought him the machine. Now joey dosen't play DDR, but I'm pretty good friends with him, and I got to go to his house and play a few rounds. It wasn't as good as I rmember (the pads, lol) but it was still nostalgic and it made me feel euphoric. I passed Max 300 with an A on it for the first time, and I remembered how much fun this game is. And recently I acquired a blueshark, and stepmania, so now I play most every day, and I hope to improve.

*edit* Wow, that's alot. But, it's what I love, then again...

[Joe. :P]

[Chewphoria]

It was one day when I saw DDR. It was a MAX2, when it got to Select Difficulty, I thought it was Select Character. So I chose Devil-Zukin (aka ONI!) and I chose a course and jumped around. -_-



FAILED!


XD~

[a2000]

I saw a video of the A-team playing Brilliant2u Orchestra Groove and I stopped thinking about all the stereotypes of DDR being stupid and decided to play it at Gameworks. I knew that SuperNOVA was the newest one and played that. I was amazed at how friendly people were at the machine. I was a complete noob who could barely play beginner and everyone treated me really nicely. I was around 12 and everyone else was around 16-18 and they didn't mock me at all. There was one person there who payed for everyone's game including mine. I had never had that sort of experience at an arcade before and I knew that I just had to get the home version. I reserved and got SuperNOVA for ps2 the day it came out along with both V-rares. I'm not on heavy yet but I can beat FAXX on standard. I keep playing because it's so fun and you can always improve.