Post #1 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:05:04am 14.5 years ago
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So I recovered this video on my hard drive of me as a DDR noob.
This was when I was 14 about 5 years ago. (Didn't realize how long my hair was.) Does anyone have any videos, scores, or stories of them back in their beginner days.
This was when I was 14 about 5 years ago. (Didn't realize how long my hair was.) Does anyone have any videos, scores, or stories of them back in their beginner days.
Post #2 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:14:41am 14.5 years ago
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Wooo look at that center button action! lol. I don't have any videos of my beginner days, but I never did stay on the center pad. No, instead I started on 4 foot lights and screamed as my calve muscles were woken up to the feeling of "being used".
I DO have a comparison video of then and now:
Probably 3 years ago:
And last month:
And hell, I'll get another video of me tonight.
I DO have a comparison video of then and now:
Probably 3 years ago:
And last month:
And hell, I'll get another video of me tonight.
Post #3 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:17:33am 14.5 years ago
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Soooooo the thread topic is to tell your DDR beginner days?
Ok then...
Was at Malibu Grand Prix in Tampa, i was around 9 to 10 years old when i first laid eyes on DDR USA Mix. Asked mom for quarters to play, played Bumblebee on Light and got a C.
BEST. DAY. EVAH.
And then it's history from then on...
Ok then...
Was at Malibu Grand Prix in Tampa, i was around 9 to 10 years old when i first laid eyes on DDR USA Mix. Asked mom for quarters to play, played Bumblebee on Light and got a C.
BEST. DAY. EVAH.
And then it's history from then on...
Post #4 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:21:36am 14.5 years ago
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Ugh. I started off with Extreme US back in 2004, and for almost all a year, I had Little on and didn't even realize it. *facepalm* Then I got Max 2 and became LOADS better.
Post #5 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:28:03am 14.5 years ago
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Quote: Max
Was at Malibu Grand Prix in Tampa, i was around 9 to 10 years old when i first laid eyes on DDR USA Mix. Asked mom for quarters to play, played Bumblebee on Light and got a C.
Too bad Bumblebee wasn't on DDR USA
Post #6 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:35:03am 14.5 years ago
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I still remember the first song I played. I played Waka Laka on Ultramix 4 at my friend's house. From that day forward, I loved DDR. I found Stepmania not too long after that and then I found Zenius later on when looking for some Ultramix 4 simfiles.
Post #7 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:38:49am 14.5 years ago
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Started on Stepmania playing Shooting Star and Cartoon Heroes on beginner, then moved to Extreme US... then Extreme AC
Post #8 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:52:16am 14.5 years ago
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First song I played was Look to the Sky on Ultramix at our dorms during our first year of college. I loved the game and the graphics it was loaded with(my graphic design career also took flight here 
). Not too long after that I found Stepmania then ZIv shortly after that. And well... now here I am. :3
). Not too long after that I found Stepmania then ZIv shortly after that. And well... now here I am. :3
Post #9 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:53:11am 14.5 years ago
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Started playing DDR 3rd Mix. it was Jan 1dt, 2000. The frst song I'm able to pass was Silent Hill basic 
Post #10 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:58:49am 14.5 years ago
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When I was like 9, my brother was fat. My mom found DDR because we went to a friend's house, who had DDRMAX2. We went to Best Buy, picked up a DDR Pad, DDRMAX and DDRMAX2. I started out on the second one for some reason and kept playing. I eventually got to light mode (I remember my friend telling me that Kind Lady was the hardest song in the game for some reason... 
) and then I got to DDRMAX. I picked Paranoia Evolution and saw how fast it was, but for some reason I really liked the song. O_o
And just saying, I never actually went through the standard mode phase. I went from hard light songs to easy heavy songs. XD
) and then I got to DDRMAX. I picked Paranoia Evolution and saw how fast it was, but for some reason I really liked the song. O_oAnd just saying, I never actually went through the standard mode phase. I went from hard light songs to easy heavy songs. XD
Post #11 · Posted at 2010-12-28 04:02:38am 14.5 years ago
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I don't have videos but I remember the first song I ever played was D2R on light, then Tsugaru then Sakura all on light.
Post #12 · Posted at 2010-12-28 04:12:00am 14.5 years ago
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Early December '08. Walked into the game room at college, saw an SN2 AC and decided I wanted to play.
Picked Why not S-Light and failed it pretty badly
Decided that wasn't good enough, started a new set, and, on the advice of someone watching, picked Freedom S-Standard. And passed with a (low) C.
...yes, I started on 4/5-footers for the most part. Chalk it up to my love of GH/RB and the somewhat transferable skillset.
I think the thing that originally attracted me to the game was the new and unusual music styles. To be honest, the music is still one of the main reasons I enjoy DDR. I didn't really care for the steps and all until I started passing 7-footers.
I joined Z-I-v about a year after I started playing DDR, originally to download files for my newly acquired Stepmania, but then also to look up X-ratings for the old-scale 9' so I could start passing the easier ones
Picked Why not S-Light and failed it pretty badly
Decided that wasn't good enough, started a new set, and, on the advice of someone watching, picked Freedom S-Standard. And passed with a (low) C....yes, I started on 4/5-footers for the most part. Chalk it up to my love of GH/RB and the somewhat transferable skillset.
I think the thing that originally attracted me to the game was the new and unusual music styles. To be honest, the music is still one of the main reasons I enjoy DDR. I didn't really care for the steps and all until I started passing 7-footers.
I joined Z-I-v about a year after I started playing DDR, originally to download files for my newly acquired Stepmania, but then also to look up X-ratings for the old-scale 9' so I could start passing the easier ones
Post #13 · Posted at 2010-12-28 04:28:35am 14.5 years ago
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My first dancing experience was when I got a plug & play dance mat with 8 bit song tracks, and it also included pinball and tetris, which I thought was convenient. It was meh, but I seemed to have fun with it at the time.
However my first DDR experience was in the Summer of 2000 in good ol' Wildwood, New Jersey. There was a DDR 1st mix, and I knew how to play the game since I had that generic dance pad at home. Looks like I didn't really know how to play it. I picked butterfly on
, and it looked really fun, then I started to mess up a bit. When I mean mess up, I meant trying to hit the arrows and failing miserably. People were jokingly booing at me, and I was laughing. FAILED. I never thought I would see another DDR machine.
Back at home, three years later, the arcade got a new machine. It was a DDR Extreme. I was like O.O MUST TRY. I picked, and believe it or not, I actually improved somehow. I was playing a whole variety of songs. It was excellent. Of course, I did get really sweaty and I needed to stop whenever I looked like I came out of the Splash Zone. (Seriously, I sweat really badly, and nothing really changed over the years. In fact, I sweat even more now.)
Then Christmas in 2005 showed up. I got DDR Extreme 2. I didn't know what to say at first, since I never really was into DDR a whole lot. But, why not? I popped the game in my PS2, got the pad, and started playing. Lots of the licenses were really familiar to me, so that was a plus. I kept on playing, and then I was like, "This is too easy." Then, I played LA COPA DE LA VIDA on
. And things went uphill from there.
And here I am now, passing songs that I thought were impossible. My, how times change.
However my first DDR experience was in the Summer of 2000 in good ol' Wildwood, New Jersey. There was a DDR 1st mix, and I knew how to play the game since I had that generic dance pad at home. Looks like I didn't really know how to play it. I picked butterfly on
, and it looked really fun, then I started to mess up a bit. When I mean mess up, I meant trying to hit the arrows and failing miserably. People were jokingly booing at me, and I was laughing. FAILED. I never thought I would see another DDR machine. Back at home, three years later, the arcade got a new machine. It was a DDR Extreme. I was like O.O MUST TRY. I picked
, and believe it or not, I actually improved somehow. I was playing a whole variety of songs. It was excellent. Of course, I did get really sweaty and I needed to stop whenever I looked like I came out of the Splash Zone. (Seriously, I sweat really badly, and nothing really changed over the years. In fact, I sweat even more now.)Then Christmas in 2005 showed up. I got DDR Extreme 2. I didn't know what to say at first, since I never really was into DDR a whole lot. But, why not? I popped the game in my PS2, got the pad, and started playing. Lots of the licenses were really familiar to me, so that was a plus. I kept on playing, and then I was like, "This is too easy." Then, I played LA COPA DE LA VIDA on
. And things went uphill from there.And here I am now, passing songs that I thought were impossible. My, how times change.
Post #14 · Posted at 2010-12-28 04:35:40am 14.5 years ago
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I actually have a whole post on my tumblr about this, but I'll just copypasta the necessary parts....
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I personally started playing DDR around April 2003 when my older brother bought DDRMAX for the PS2 and some cheap soft pads for his 11th birthday (he’s 18 now). At first, I was pretty apprehensive about trying it. The thought of actually moving while playing a video game just baffled me… but like every curious kid, I tried it out. I did absolutely awful; I failed to pass even the slowest, most basic songs in the game. I did the usual “this sucks, I’ll never be good at this wahhhh” crap, and I almost considered never playing it ever again… but something just kept me coming back. I could never figure out what it was, but once I had started it was something I could not put down. It was to the point where I would just play from when I got home from school until dinner time. For a while I was still stuck on easy Light mode songs, but with constant practice, I eventually made it up to Standard mode, and after about a couple months or so, I had surpassed any expectation I had of myself and made it up to Heavy mode. I was so surprised that I had made it that far.
Playing it at home was fun, sure, but it wasn’t the complete experience. My brother managed to find a website called DDR Freak which had listings for DDR machine locations in every state, and we managed to find some in our area. I expected to just find a fun thing to do while out of the house, but I had basically found a “gold mine”. Instead of just finding a recreational activity, I stumbled upon a community of like-minded people who enjoyed the game just as much as I do. There was one small issue, if you can call it that… at the time, I was 9 years old (10 once December 2003 rolled around), and seemingly everyone else that played was 16 and older. It actually turned out to be somewhat of an advantage, though; I treated everyone with respect and they returned the favor, partially because no one had seen such a small kid being so good at the game. I would spend nearly every Friday and Saturday at the now-closed Cyberstation arcade in the Crossgates mall, just having the time of my life with a bunch of great people. My entire 2004 was amazing thanks to all of the people I had met. Even when I traveled out of state to Orlando, Florida and Texas (Corpus Christi and San Antonio), I was met with the same type of kindness from everyone in the DDR community.
As great as things were… they eventually started to end. Once 2005 I rolled around I started to lose interest in the game. I just couldn’t push myself to play anymore, and around May 2005, I officially quit the game. I vowed to never play the game again… but I did a really shitty job keeping that promise. In January 2007 I was looking around my mom’s house for stuff to do, and I stumbled upon my old metal DDR pad and a bunch of my games. I remembered all the great times I had with the game, but at the same time I also remembered that promise I made to myself. I didn’t even try to fight the urge to start playing, so within a few minutes I was back on my feet dancing to shitty Japanese techno music. I have continued playing DDR ever since that one moment. Along the way I have met more people, and even participated in a tournament in June 2008 which was a hugely enjoyable experience.
Playing it at home was fun, sure, but it wasn’t the complete experience. My brother managed to find a website called DDR Freak which had listings for DDR machine locations in every state, and we managed to find some in our area. I expected to just find a fun thing to do while out of the house, but I had basically found a “gold mine”. Instead of just finding a recreational activity, I stumbled upon a community of like-minded people who enjoyed the game just as much as I do. There was one small issue, if you can call it that… at the time, I was 9 years old (10 once December 2003 rolled around), and seemingly everyone else that played was 16 and older. It actually turned out to be somewhat of an advantage, though; I treated everyone with respect and they returned the favor, partially because no one had seen such a small kid being so good at the game. I would spend nearly every Friday and Saturday at the now-closed Cyberstation arcade in the Crossgates mall, just having the time of my life with a bunch of great people. My entire 2004 was amazing thanks to all of the people I had met. Even when I traveled out of state to Orlando, Florida and Texas (Corpus Christi and San Antonio), I was met with the same type of kindness from everyone in the DDR community.
As great as things were… they eventually started to end. Once 2005 I rolled around I started to lose interest in the game. I just couldn’t push myself to play anymore, and around May 2005, I officially quit the game. I vowed to never play the game again… but I did a really shitty job keeping that promise.
In January 2007 I was looking around my mom’s house for stuff to do, and I stumbled upon my old metal DDR pad and a bunch of my games. I remembered all the great times I had with the game, but at the same time I also remembered that promise I made to myself. I didn’t even try to fight the urge to start playing, so within a few minutes I was back on my feet dancing to shitty Japanese techno music. I have continued playing DDR ever since that one moment. Along the way I have met more people, and even participated in a tournament in June 2008 which was a hugely enjoyable experience.Post #15 · Posted at 2010-12-28 05:13:47am 14.5 years ago
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Ah!
please don`t wonder, I played on conventions on 1st and 2nd video
Ok,
This is me playing DDR for the very first time...
unfortunately the one who made this video did`t make it good... So I`ll never know if I passed my first song ever or not.... I think I failed. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ePZY8zQRfU
This is me playing DDR for 3rd time... on basic, with score
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wUAijusxwk (Haha, Exactly 1 year later this song ( but on difficult) rescued me in a DDR tournament I got 2nd in the end.... This song is epic for me.... This one and DoLL
This is me playing my first 7 (Xepher) with a friend of mine whos playing on beginner...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LafcHioYp90
This was right before I stopped playing it until I found out that there a German Community and started to practice every day
(I really played DDR only a few times before I stopped playing in October....maybe twice a Month)
So I don`t have many Videos of my real beginner days.
And then....
My first 8 (April this year)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvXMh3JmEw
Then my first 9 on 1st june (at 1.40 am) this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnibZj6pw-Y (it`s my 2nd pass on the video... but the score of the first pass is linked in the description Mh,and as you can see it took me 6 days until I could pass it for a 2nd time....I was about giving up, thinking the one pass was just an accident and I`ll never pass it again...but I did
My first 10 only 3 weeks later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6TKo1iidJA I heared Sakura is only a 9 now... but it`s a 10 on all versions I know...
And at that moment it was the most difficult thing I could imagine!
Then again....I stopped playing for 2 months because my Pad was broken ...
And after I got a new one I played almost only ITG.... I`m working on my first 11 at the moment.
But here are my 2 latest DDR Videos:
Max 300 Standard doubles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjdNmlCmfJs (first pass)
Xepher Challenge today : (lol, I think this was my first REAL DDR 10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsu-N7qpBM
Cool combo.....I was red 2 or 3 times...but haha, passd and got a B!
So, this is the proof, that I`m practicing this stuff for less than 1 year now....
I say PRACTICING cause I know it for almost 2 years now.... but as I said: in first 7 months I knew it I played only 3 times and then july-october only 2 a month.... this doesn`t count
And I`m really playing this stuff every day.... (not DDR but ITG)
please don`t wonder, I played on conventions on 1st and 2nd video
Ok,
This is me playing DDR for the very first time...
unfortunately the one who made this video did`t make it good... So I`ll never know if I passed my first song ever or not.... I think I failed. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ePZY8zQRfU
This is me playing DDR for 3rd time... on basic, with score
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wUAijusxwk (Haha, Exactly 1 year later this song ( but on difficult) rescued me in a DDR tournament
I got 2nd in the end.... This song is epic for me.... This one and DoLLThis is me playing my first 7 (Xepher) with a friend of mine whos playing on beginner...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LafcHioYp90
This was right before I stopped playing it until I found out that there a German Community and started to practice every day
(I really played DDR only a few times before I stopped playing in October....maybe twice a Month)
So I don`t have many Videos of my real beginner days.
And then....
My first 8 (April this year)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvXMh3JmEw
Then my first 9 on 1st june (at 1.40 am) this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnibZj6pw-Y (it`s my 2nd pass on the video... but the score of the first pass is linked in the description
Mh,and as you can see it took me 6 days until I could pass it for a 2nd time....I was about giving up, thinking the one pass was just an accident and I`ll never pass it again...but I did My first 10 only 3 weeks later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6TKo1iidJA I heared Sakura is only a 9 now... but it`s a 10 on all versions I know...
And at that moment it was the most difficult thing I could imagine!
Then again....I stopped playing for 2 months because my Pad was broken ...
And after I got a new one I played almost only ITG.... I`m working on my first 11 at the moment.
But here are my 2 latest DDR Videos:
Max 300 Standard doubles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjdNmlCmfJs (first pass)
Xepher Challenge today : (lol, I think this was my first REAL DDR 10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsu-N7qpBM
Cool combo.....I was red 2 or 3 times...but haha, passd and got a B!
So, this is the proof, that I`m practicing this stuff for less than 1 year now....
I say PRACTICING cause I know it for almost 2 years now.... but as I said: in first 7 months I knew it I played only 3 times and then july-october only 2 a month.... this doesn`t count
And I`m really playing this stuff every day.... (not DDR but ITG)
Post #16 · Posted at 2010-12-28 01:29:33pm 14.5 years ago
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January 2002, First Colony Mall, Sugar Land, TX:
I had stopped going to arcades because I didn't find any of the games they had fun anymore. The last great game I played in the arcade was Crusin' USA. And since I now had a Nintendo 64 I could play it for free whenever I wanted. But a friend of mine insisted we go to a new arcade that opened up in our local mall and check it out. While we're there we saw the dumbest thing possible, a flashing machine with a stage and lit arrows and some guy jumping up and down on it to the sound of horrible music. We recognized that this thing could only have come from Japan. Dance Dance Revolution. Two Dances, not one. What the hell man?
My friend dared me to play it, and while I felt like a complete idiot I gave it a try. The sugar-sweet bubblegum pop music playing earlier was the only song I knew so I decided to play it first. When I found it and selected it I was displeased that it was faster than what I had heard playing earlier and despite being on the easiest difficulty, I failed. I was pissed, so I walked off and went elsewhere in the arcade. After a while though I began realizing that I understood the concept of the game and wanted to try it again. So I walked back up to the machine and this time played the first song it showed me, which was much slower.
I passed.
And from that point on I was hooked. Playing at least three or four times a week during my lunch breaks and after work across the road at the local CompUSA.
(I later discovered that the title screen of the game was showing me the code to access the slower version of the song I had first heard.)
I had stopped going to arcades because I didn't find any of the games they had fun anymore. The last great game I played in the arcade was Crusin' USA. And since I now had a Nintendo 64 I could play it for free whenever I wanted. But a friend of mine insisted we go to a new arcade that opened up in our local mall and check it out. While we're there we saw the dumbest thing possible, a flashing machine with a stage and lit arrows and some guy jumping up and down on it to the sound of horrible music. We recognized that this thing could only have come from Japan. Dance Dance Revolution. Two Dances, not one. What the hell man?
My friend dared me to play it, and while I felt like a complete idiot I gave it a try. The sugar-sweet bubblegum pop music playing earlier was the only song I knew so I decided to play it first. When I found it and selected it I was displeased that it was faster than what I had heard playing earlier and despite being on the easiest difficulty, I failed. I was pissed, so I walked off and went elsewhere in the arcade. After a while though I began realizing that I understood the concept of the game and wanted to try it again. So I walked back up to the machine and this time played the first song it showed me, which was much slower.
I passed.
And from that point on I was hooked. Playing at least three or four times a week during my lunch breaks and after work across the road at the local CompUSA.
(I later discovered that the title screen of the game was showing me the code to access the slower version of the song I had first heard.)
Post #17 · Posted at 2010-12-28 03:32:28pm 14.5 years ago
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started with DDR USA but forgotten about it, then years later (around age 12) re-discovered it when a gamecrazy sale person made my father buy it (he said something about a game that everyone(kids and friends) would enjoy playing) and then I'm the only one that enjoy the game after the "GF american version" game come out
(my sister and brother and their friends enjoy it more than DDR with the stepping/moving around to standing up and pushing buttons) good times.....
short and easy to understand version : hm.....i discovered DDR USA (@ chuck e cheese
) and years later(after i forgot about it) re-discovered (that) DDR with(/had) a home port (SuperNOVA CS)
(my sister and brother and their friends enjoy it more than DDR with the stepping/moving around to standing up and pushing buttons) good times.....
short and easy to understand version : hm.....i discovered DDR USA (@ chuck e cheese
) and years later(after i forgot about it) re-discovered (that) DDR with(/had) a home port (SuperNOVA CS)Post #18 · Posted at 2010-12-28 04:24:22pm 14.5 years ago
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Funny topic, seeing how my 7 year DDR birthday is coming up (DEC 31st). At a new years eve party when someone brought out MAX 2. Then I went to my friends house and he had MAX2 as well. After that, I got my own copy and the rest was history. I look at the people that would AA songs like nothing and thought they where just amazing and had no life. Now I see little ones thinking the same thing when I play. I remember being stuck on Beginner FOREVER! Like a whole year. Then I was on for a few weeks and before I knew it, I was passing 7s and 8s. I could go on and on.
If I told myself 6 years from now when I was still on beginner that I would be passing ITG12s and DDR 17s, or if I would be well known on a DDR fan site, My younger self would have just laugh.
As a bonus, here is the oldest video on record of me playing Paranoia Survivor on SN1 from 4 years ago. (Back story: I had passed it once by fluke and wanted to do it again. 6 months after this happen.
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I remember being stuck on Beginner FOREVER! Like a whole year. Then I was on for a few weeks and before I knew it, I was passing 7s and 8s. I could go on and on.If I told myself 6 years from now when I was still on beginner that I would be passing ITG12s and DDR 17s, or if I would be well known on a DDR fan site, My younger self would have just laugh.
As a bonus, here is the oldest video on record of me playing Paranoia Survivor on SN1 from 4 years ago. (Back story: I had passed it once by fluke and wanted to do it again. 6 months after this happen.
CHECK OUT MY BEETLES HAIR! LOOK AT IT!!!!!!
Post #19 · Posted at 2010-12-28 06:11:16pm 14.5 years ago
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I remember me getting into DDR was what most can consider "an accident". My brother and sister wanted the game and I personally thought the whole concept was absurd and stupid... After a few songs I was hooked. I got my friends to start playing a few weeks later. After a year my friends were on standard and I was still on light and I was forced to step up my game. I started AAing songs on light when my best friend just started heavy. 2 weeks later I completely skipped standard and moved to heavy and was passing 7's.
After about another year I started getting AA's on almost every song in the game (exclusing 9's and 10's). I played my first DDR machine at my mall and I passed my first 10. About another year later around when I tested SuperNOVA on BZN I believe I AA'd MAX 300.
After about another year I started getting AA's on almost every song in the game (exclusing 9's and 10's). I played my first DDR machine at my mall and I passed my first 10. About another year later around when I tested SuperNOVA on BZN I believe I AA'd MAX 300.
Post #20 · Posted at 2010-12-28 08:28:24pm 14.5 years ago
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I can't sleep so might as well type this.
Age 9-ish: Alright... I started with some cute little game called Superstar Dance Club #1 Hits. It's some old PS1 game where instead of arrows you use the face buttons. Yeah, I totally dominated Club Catstar... Then one day I was at Sunsplash and there was some loud dance music coming from the arcade and I thought to myself "hey, I might like this". So I ventured to the large dance platform. It was DDR 4thMIX PLUS. I got on and navigated through the menus and ended up playing BOYS (EURO MIX) on BASIC. I failed miserably. Then, with some convincing, my dad bought me DDR KONAMIX and a dance mat for our PS1. Kick ass! I played the he'll out of BURNIN' THE FLOOR and Let the beat hit em! (CLASSIC R&B STYLE).
Age 10 or 11: Went to the bowling alley. There was a DDRMAX2 there. After convincing, my mom gave me $1 to go play. When it was select difficulty, I thought it was select character... So I chose Devil-Zukin (ONI mode). Picked a course, owned.
Age 12-ish: Mom in bowling league, spend all Sunday in arcade. DDR EXTREME. Is able to complete most songs on STANDARD, some HEAVY songs like .59 and Sana Morette Ne Ente.
Age 12-15: Get addicted, play PS2 versions nonstop. Discover CCR. Discover SM. Start making simfiles.
Present: Disgusted with X2 CS, 2010 Wii, PS3 and 360. Can only play BASIC.
k done
Age 9-ish: Alright... I started with some cute little game called Superstar Dance Club #1 Hits. It's some old PS1 game where instead of arrows you use the face buttons. Yeah, I totally dominated Club Catstar... Then one day I was at Sunsplash and there was some loud dance music coming from the arcade and I thought to myself "hey, I might like this". So I ventured to the large dance platform. It was DDR 4thMIX PLUS. I got on and navigated through the menus and ended up playing BOYS (EURO MIX) on BASIC. I failed miserably. Then, with some convincing, my dad bought me DDR KONAMIX and a dance mat for our PS1. Kick ass! I played the he'll out of BURNIN' THE FLOOR and Let the beat hit em! (CLASSIC R&B STYLE).
Age 10 or 11: Went to the bowling alley. There was a DDRMAX2 there. After convincing, my mom gave me $1 to go play. When it was select difficulty, I thought it was select character... So I chose Devil-Zukin (ONI mode). Picked a course, owned.
Age 12-ish: Mom in bowling league, spend all Sunday in arcade. DDR EXTREME. Is able to complete most songs on STANDARD, some HEAVY songs like .59 and Sana Morette Ne Ente.
Age 12-15: Get addicted, play PS2 versions nonstop. Discover CCR. Discover SM. Start making simfiles.
Present: Disgusted with X2 CS, 2010 Wii, PS3 and 360. Can only play BASIC.
k done
