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Dance Dance Revolution

Description

A simon-says style music game, where you press the four buttons with your feet as arrows scroll up from the bottom of the screen.

Dance Dance Revolution was produced by Konami in 1999.

Konami released 434 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Dance Dance Revolution was produced include: NBA Play by Play, Battle Tryst, Dark Horse Legend, Winning Spike, Teraburst, Hiphopmania Complete Mix 2, Beatmania 3rd Mix, Beatmania 4th Mix ~Time To Get Down~, Beatmania 5th Mix: The Beat Goes On, and Beatmania IIDX

Specs

Name	Dance Dance Revolution
Developer	Konami (Japan)
Year	1999
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7489
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Dance / Rhythm
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Either
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player Controls Differ
Controls	Buttons: 1 - Select Left Buttons: 1 - Select Right Buttons: 4 - Up\|Down\|Left\|Right
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

Do you have the rhythm? Then step up onto the stage and prove it! In this dancing game, move and groove to the music by stepping on the arrows as they scroll up the screen. Do well enough, and you progress to the next stage!

Game Play

Start by selecting a song, then the game begins. As the arrows reach the top of the screen, press the corresponding button(s) with your feet.

The songs range from one foot (simple) (they are rated in feet instead of stars) up to nine, known as 'Catastrophic' songs, increasing in difficulty as far as speed (beats per min.) and are nearly impossible to finish without spending mass amounts of money or investing in any of the import (or domestic) home versions and dance mats!

Dance Dance Revolution KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.80 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 3.60

Overall Like	3.00
Fun (Social)	5.00
Fun (Solo)	3.00
Collector Desire	4.00

Technical Rating: 4.00

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	2.00
Originality	5.00
Sound/Music	5.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Game Logo

Cabinet Information

The cabinet features lights under the buttons that illuminate when pressed, neon flashing lights that flicker in tune to the music, as well as overhead multi-colored lighting to create a dance party feeling.

Miscellaneous

This game is known as Dancing Stage in Europe/the UK, where the world record for number of hours playing the game nonstop (around eight hours, according to Guinness World Records, 2001) is held.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Dance Dance Revolution Census

There are 15,272 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,670 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,971 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 16 known instances of this machine owned by Dance Dance Revolution collectors who are active members. Of these, 14 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Dance Dance Revolution machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 5 active VAPS members currently looking for Dance Dance Revolution.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Konami's Rockin' With The Hits!

1999 / 2 Pages

Legacy

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

Enthusiast Page: ddrfreak.com (http://www.ddrfreak.com/)

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