So how addictive is it?

If it can make a 27 page thread of which I have no time read, as well as an entire forum on Roller Coaster website (Jeff GREAT idea!), it must be well-known among a lot of coaster enthusiasts.

Unfortunatley, I've never played the game. I am also not a very good dancer. So...the basic question that is the same as this topic title, how addictive is it?

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I myself havent played it either.

I remember walking through the arcade's watching the people hop around on those things and laugh cause it looked so stupid, but here everyone is saying its one of the greatest things you can do at a park.

Im along with TTD...how addictive is it?

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When I first saw the game I thought that there is no way I was going to play that infront of everybody, but I did. The first time I wasen't the best so in an effort to look like I knew what I was doing I played it more and more. Now I'm good enough to impress the "passer-by" and even the newbies and that attention is what is so addictive now.

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I have done it about 4 times, each time I have sucked but it is still fun to do, A LOT of Fun to do. What I'm personally doing is getting a cheap playstation from a pawnshop or something, then there is this website that sells 2 pads and the Konamix for $40. I'm going to practice so I can impress the people a lot better.

I got hooked in about three hours on a home made pad at my friends house. Now I'm trying to figure out how to bring DDR into my own house for minimal price.

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It's about as addictive as coffee is to a businessman / woman in the morning before work. Gotta love the game - after all - 'tis in good fun, even if you DO make a fool of yourself trying to impress someone.

How addictive? Play it for yourself to find out. You'll never want to get off.

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The game is very addictive, but I always have to get off....

There is always someone waiting to be next in line.

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I'm 27, and I've been playing video games all my life, starting with the Atari 2600. In all that time, there have been only 4 games that I have been so addicted to that I thought about them day and night... those are Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Zelda: A Link to the Past, and DDR. So it's at least one of the four most addicting games of all time. ;)

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I'm 33, and my list of addictive games would be Warlords, Joust, Zelda (the first), Tetris, Secret of Mana, Diablo, Half-Life, and Halo. Not quite DDR yet, but I CAN see the appeal...

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I remember when i started pplaying DDR a year and some change ago. I sucked, badly...made a pretty major fool of myself at that too ^^: But i was immediately hooked...now i'm the one making fools!! BWAHAHA HA HA Ha Ha ha *ahem* ...ha...

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I'm 33 as well, and I've been addicted to few games (Street Fighter 2 when I was 18 took ALL my money), but nothing quite the way DDR/Pump It Up have.

The biggest push to keep me playing is the weight loss (over 100lbs and counting), but the reason I stick with it is because it's fun. Had it not been fun, I'd resort to a stationary bike or treadmill (which aren't fun).

DDR (and PIU) are nice because they allow you to improve in coordination as well as be healthier. I can't say that for most video games (with maybe the exception of Konami's Mocap Boxing, which makes my arms feel like spaghetti after 5 minutes).

-Chris

D'oh! When I listed my addicting games, I completely forgot the entire genre of fighting games. I guess I was addicted to a whole string, starting with Mortal Kombat II, then Primal Rage, Killer Instinct and MKIII. I knew every single move for every single character in all of those games!

Chris - I played that boxing game for the first time the other day, twice in a row, and I was sore for three days after. Have you seen the sword/samurai game of the same concept?

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There's also a police game in the same vein. It's funny watching people duck "bullets".

I was semi-addicted to Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage, and Soul Calibur. I've never gotten very good at fighting games, though -- I can't seem to be able to just memorize entire move lists, so I frequently get schooled by those who can. (My current frustration is MK5 -- I can cruise right up to Moloch, then get creamed. I can even see that a cheese strategy like repeated jumpkicking might work, but he always ends up catching me and crushing me)

Anyway, back to DDR. I dug it back out last night (Konamix for the PS1), and yes, it's addictive :)

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Den said:

Chris - I played that boxing game for the first time the other day, twice in a row, and I was sore for three days after. Have you seen the sword/samurai game of the same concept?

Mocap Boxing just wears me out. I like it, just not as much as DDR/Pump.

Konami has been making a lot of interesting games as of late using that 'motion capture' system of their's.

Blade of Honor, which is the samurai game you're referring to, is interesting, but it's just ok. (I think if Konami got the rights to Star Wars and made a lightsaber type game, it'd go over better here in the U.S.) We have one down here, but I rarely play it.

Mocap Golf is more interesting to me. You stand on a platform over two monitors on the floor, and you swing a virtual club (which is the same wand you use to play Blade of Honor, but you hold it like a golf club). It feels like you're playing real golf, even though it's only over a set of monitors. It's fun, albiet a little inaccurate, to play.

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-Chris

Hmm, that golf game seems a little redundant, considering the availability of real golf simulators, where you actually hit a real ball into a tarp with a real club. One large arcade in Columbus actually has one alongside the video games.

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A Dave & Buster's, right? The D&B here in Pittsburgh has one, along with a full-fledged Battletech center. No DDR, though, just "Pump it up" (at least as of last time I was there)

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No, actually, neither D&B nor GameWorks has a golf simulator as far as I know. There's a *third* huge adult-oriented restaurant/arcade/fun center called the Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe, just off the OSU campus, which is where I have seen the simulator.

We used to have four such video-game havens until Jillian's closed downtown...

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Well the D&Bs Golf Sim (which is probably the exact same type as the one Den describes) is A - only available by appointment, B - 20-30 bucks an hour, and C - you have to bring your own clubs.

Mocap Golf is $.75 for three holes and just as involving as the D&B one.

Anyway, back to DDR.... :)

Den, are you going to the Magic Mountain Brice Rd. tourney Friday? (I have to work, so I can't go.... shame too since I know most of the people who'll be there running it.)

-Chris

Chris, the Hall of Fame Cafe golf simulator is just like that - expensive, use your own clubs, etc.

I'll be out of town this weekend, but I probably wouldn't go to the tourney anyway. I hate freestyling and my PA isn't good enough to compete, yet if I didn't enter, watching DDR for hours would make me want to play too much...

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