DanceDanceRevolution A (AC)

Anyone else end up drawing on their eamuse card? (The US emause pass that has a lot of white space in the front)

Anyone know a link to where the DDR A locations are? Can't seem to find a reliable source, I wanna see if there's one in Colorado.

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Colorado doesn't seem to have one. (From what I gather)
The midwest was sort of screwed this time around.

This has the list of all the Dave and Buster locations that have the game.

If I recall, Round 1 said that the game will be coming to all of its locations. So far, these two franchises appear to be the only ones that have DDR A.

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This is what I did to my grey one, lol.

The machine was delivered either Friday or Saturday, was made playable on Monday, and eAmuse cards went on sale Thursday morning. You'd think with those big cabinet pieces they'd have some room for a starter pack at least somewhere.

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Yah it's kind of weird they are just cards. I will have to be that creeper asking everyday at my D&B haha

I don't know if anyone here frequents D&B in Irvine Spectrum, but I am visiting California for a couple of weeks and should be by there at least a couple more times. I was there two days ago but I didn't see anyone. It was nice to have the machine to myself, but I hope it's not doing poorly. I asked a gentleman that I assumed to be a manager about it and he said it's been pretty popular.

That worries me a little, especially since that machine is the one closest to me

Wednesdays are half off this game (if not all) though, so it might be more occupied then, especially during these summer months.

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Just cause there isn't anyone there when you are there doesn't mean no one's playing.

Ours through out the week has at least 3 or 4 everyday
The weekends is when people come out

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Report has come that Europe is getting catered licenses separate from the current worldwide set. Not sure if that means they'll also come to the worldwide version, but I hope so.

Source

I'm not bothered about the exclusive licenses, frankly. With them or without them, I'm just happy to get to play this.

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Konami only takes 30 percent of the revunue?
Thought it would of been more

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correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe Dancing Stage was called Dancing Stage because they couldn't use the name Dance Dance Revolution while licensing content overseas because at that time DDR was under contract (or something to that effect) to only use songs from Toshiba EMI/Dancemania in exchange for cheap licensing, resulting in all those licenses in early DDR... which eventually got completely axed comes SuperNOVA (said contract also causes home versions to advertise Dancemania in the attract sequence).

eventually the contract expired/is called off, the licenses under that are removed, and they got songs from Dancemania under different terms (resulting in more varied, though less than before, licenses pool). the "Dancing Stage" name isn't necessary anymore, so by the time we got to DDR X, there's no "Dancing Stage X"

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Also "DDR" means... Er, something that Germany would like to forget very much. I guess Konami were originally afraid of offending the country so they changed the name. Anyway, the last Dancing Stage game was SuperNova, and starting from X it was called DDR like the rest of the world.

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The first EU DDR was Hottest Party 2, I think DDR X came out the year after?

But yeah, DDR was the old name for East Germany back when the Berlin Wall was a thing. It wasn't a good time for Germany, and considering the first EU release was only 10 years after the reunification, I gather they wanted to sidestep that issue.

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Oooh

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DDR Winx Club was actually released before Hottest Party 2 in Europe, and that was the first European DDR release to drop the "Dancing Stage" name.

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any update on massachusetts? (I'm gonna try checking it out myself this weekend)

Word around is that all Dave and Buster's locations will follow the standard of 1 swipe Premium play for DDR A.