Do you remember the first DDR song you played?

Yeah, Voltississimo back in 2022
idk why but for about a year or so I'd convinced myself my first song was actually Triple Cross? Looked through my phone and Voltiss was my first actual score photo, though.

GET UP AND DANCE in DDR 3rdMIX PSX version, i was like six years old

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KICK THE CAN on DDR Extreme.

BOOM BOOM DOLLAR on US PS1 Edition.

That was when I was in high school back in 2001 and one student volunteered to set up the PlayStation with the softpads, then I followed in his footsteps around 2005 up to 2011.

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I want to say mine was Take on Me in the US SN2. It was at my local YMCA, where I first discovered DDR back in 2008.

The earliest memory I have of playing any particular DDR song was... well, pretty much the first song: Have You Never Been Mellow, on a 1stMIX machine in Wildwood, NJ in summer 2002. I remembered failing it -- yes, one of the easiest Basic charts of all time... although in retrospect, I may have actually been playing on Easy Mode, which limits you to one song, pass or fail.

My first dance game experience overall was on a Pump It Up Premiere (EX?) machine months beforehand, but I can't remember what song(s) I played then. I do definitely remember beefing them, though.

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Onegai Darling on a DanceDance Revolution A machine. It was at the Culver City Dave and Busters, and on the rainy day December 4th 2022. I think I had palyed on a DDR machine earlier back in June 2022, but I dont remember the song. I have some footage of the first time I really started playing DDR.

More info: Happy Synthesizerwas the first DDR song I recorded playing along with There’s suppised to be a cheat code to happiness right after. And I remember the machine I played at in June 2022 being at Circus Circus’s Adventure Dome. I think I also remember Pop’n music being there too for some reason.

The Whistle Song (Blow My Whistle Bitch) on a Max 2 machine in a truck stop somewhere on the way home from a vacation on the east coast. I remember thinking how crazy it was that the other people were playing songs on crazy high difficulty, and me and my sister played one song and left. A year or so down the line I had this weird idea that maybe that game would be available to buy on some kind of system and asked around and found out that it was on PS2. Me and two friends played hookie (literally the only time I ever did) and my dad drove us up to the nearest town with a GameStop and we purchased DDR Max with a pad. I've been wildly addicted since. I used to play every day either at home or driving up to the arcades in Springfield MO, or eventually to STL, KC, and Kirksville for lots of tournaments. I still play any time I find a machine, or if I drive up to KC to their Round 1, but all the machines near me, including my Solo 2000, are no longer operable. I've debated making a Stepmania machine multiple times, but always had very bad luck with big metal pads.

The first song I played in public was GRADUATION . I don't recall the first song I played in CS DDR, but the first one I beat with a pad in StepMania at home was HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW S-, the latter being just so I could test the pad I got in 2019.

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It's been decades since I remember playing DDR for the first time. And yeah all I can remember is being terrible at it (Being very young). All I can remember is the UI being one of the very early PS1 era.

I do remember playing most of them at Cinemark. The one I can recall the most is Baby Tears on SuperNOVA. That's the song I always picked first... IDK why since not knowing any japanese. All I know is I always thought the song was really cool on the game...

I am so angry at Konami for taking the song off of Modern DDR...

first exposure to ddr was through a X Raw Thrills cab playing Butterfly
but unfortunately because i'm a zoomer, my first song was According to You by Orianthi on the infamous DDR (2010) game though it was the one for the Wii 💀💀💀

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you're being too hard on it. that song's beautiful, incredible. i can't get it out of my head.

I was like... 14 years old at an Arcade called Action Territory where they had DDR Extreme. The image was cute and the preview sounded lovely. This song always puts a big smile on my face when I decide to play it.

I'm ashamed to say the first machine I ever played on was a DDR EXTREME PLUS (rip). I only remember BUTTERFLY but I'm 100% sure it was GRADUATION and I blocked it from memory.

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Back from the grave(lol jk), but I think the first song I ever played on DDR was Butterfly at some middle school party at the arcade. Had no idea what I was doing lol. Later on, coincidentally enough, that song became my first AC AAA as well.

I think mine was NOTHING GONNA STOP (Dance Mania Mix) by Micky from DDRMAX2 when i got my hands on it a while back

The song is still stuck on my head to this day

We had a 3rd Mix PLUS cab, so I also remember doing Ba Kkwo and Bu Dam quite a bit, too.

"Luv To Me" on a Dancing Stage Euromix 2 cabinet during a summer camp. Ah the memories, When I think I lost them, they all come back to me

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Ritualistic play FLOWER

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I can't remember my initial experiences playing DDR properly, but one of my first experiences that I can recall would be with DDR S Lite, which had 華爛漫 -Flowers- on . It definitely helped me get used to the controls (an update that added the chart came sometime after I first tried the demo) before I really started to delve into the console releases.

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