Embarrassing DDR Moments

Do not look up XANADU's Background picture.

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Or the bg for the original Let the beat hit em!, for that matter.

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SOUNDS LEGIT TO ME

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For reasons I will never understand, that one never scared me (considering it's basically the same as the BM IIDX version). I anticipated it being scary when I decided to play it, then I played it and was like "...whatever" but still felt scared of the R&B one.

As for Xanadu, IDK or remember if that was on any US mixes but if it was I never played it. The first time I ever saw that background must've been around age 10 or 11 or something, at least a year or so after starting Stepmania and by that time, I had already seen the horrors of many Stepmania bg arts (whether it be gory, spooky, jump-scary, slight pedophiliac, furry, a combination of any of those or just plain ugly).

Bruh, I started playing DDR at six.

Anyway, I also remember that one time where I was playing Saber Wing with my 17 year old cousin. I didn't know how to properly do crossovers and we were on tile with third-party mats. While he did crossovers properly I hit the left with my left foot and all the others with my right. Needless to say I slipped and fell on his leg and he tripped and fell as well.

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Your badge is in the mail, but until then here's the printout version you can keep in your wallet.

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Despite the fact I just got burned, I want to find out how you did that.

EDIT: Never mind. Alright, you didn't have to be that rude man. If you don't believe me that's fine by me. Sorry if I sounded like an ass.

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Yeah, I started playing DDR around 4, and I don't doubt that many, many other players out there started at a rather young age. It's not exactly the least kid-friendly game, and it gave us (or me) an excuse to not go outside since it was better for you than controller games.

Thanks rayword45. I understand now. Sorry about the whole "oh I'm cool I started at 6" thing. Anyway, let's get back on topic!

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The first time I Played DDR X2 (EU) I accidentally selected happy mode, and had to play through four very long, painful, slow songs that I couldn't even hit properly because the damn machine was offsync. grrrr.

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I don't think I posted anything in here yet, so here goes...

I was freestyling or doing something tricky on a 5th Mix and I tripped and fell on the pad. I didn't hurt myself but I got enough misses to fail the song I was playing. That's all I can think of at the moment.

A few weeks ago I was playing X2 at Dave & Busters. I head back to the machine and there's a group of about 5 guys and a girl gathered around the machine. The guy got off the pad in disgust after playing the girl in a song and said the game was "Japanese shit." After a few minutes they recognize me waiting and they want me to play them. A different guy plays me and decided he was cocky enough to play Mars Wars 3 against me. Midway through the song I get a miss and I look down to see he's hitting my arrows. I had enough, swore under my breath, and immediately took my things and left the place. I took a long walk around a hotel resort across the street hoping they'd clear out. They did once I returned, and luckily they didn't take the game card I left there.

tl;dr Guy gets me mad enough to leave the arcade because he messed me up in DDR

Not exactly embarrassing, I'd be pretty fucking annoyed too.

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You should have told them off or something, that's just asshole behaviour

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The top half of my body kept going and the bottom half stopped on Jane Jana double back in the day. I tumbled off the side of the machine into the lap of one of the guys watching. I managed not to fail though!

I've dealt with basically the same situation countless times, so I definitely feel your pain.

I tend to get a little abrasive by just making them feeling stupid via sarcasm but I realize that not everyone deals with things the same way I do, haha. Just try to brush it off as much as possible whenever it happens.

I was playing DEAD END doubles on our middle school's KONAMIX machine and got pantsed by a classmate. Still got a B.

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Back in 3rdMIX, I played Wonderland in SSR mode as my first song, failed about 20 seconds into the song because I messed up the crossovers.

This was in front of a crowd, and one guy went "ooo..." in sympathy.

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i still fall off the pad sometimes when i play couples on pump

Wat.

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