Dance pads for video game systems

[Tara]

Have any of you ever been to an arcade and seen those dancing games where you keep your feet in the middle and you step on the parts where the arrows point to on the screen and you end up dancing to the music?

Well... I wanted to announce that I have the cheaper version of those things for my Gamecube. It's called a Beat Pad. Here's a picture I found online:



The name of the game that goes with it is Dance Dance Revolution (I think there are quite a few versions of it and other dance games). They've got some cool songs on there and some cheesy ones but I enjoy it. It also has some sort of workout/aerobics thing which I thought was cool. My mom got it for me...I guess she saw how much fun I had on the ones in the arcades when I went on vacation one year. So you see people, I'm not all serious as I may seem to be. ;D

[dianaholberg]

I did that in the arcade once... took me a minute to get the hang of it, but then I did okay. It was fun too!

[littlepea]

i've seen them in arcades but i've never tried it cos i didn't want to embarrass myself or break the thing (i'm quite heavy - not fat, just heavy )

on of my friends when i was in primary school (when i was about 6 years old) had something like that for the NES (remember those?).

we used to play a kind of track and field game where you'd have to run on the spot (one pad for each foot) to make your guy run round the track and stuff (there was a rowing and a swimming game which had the same idea). it was pretty cool and the games very subtly different - for the running game it was all about speed but for the rowing game it was all about timing. great fun

he lived in a flat (ie. apartment) so we had to stop when the neighbours underneath complained that we were making too much noise for them by pounding the floor with our feet. it was good while it lasted though ;D

[Tara]

littlepea said:

i've seen them in arcades but i've never tried it cos i didn't want to embarrass myself or break the thing (i'm quite heavy - not fat, just heavy ) on of my friends when i was in primary school (when i was about 6 years old) had something like that for the NES (remember those?). we used to play a kind of track and field game where you'd have to run on the spot (one pad for each foot) to make your guy run round the track and stuff (there was a rowing and a swimming game which had the same idea).

OMG yes! I have that game! It's just my NES doesn't work and I don't have the pad anymore. When I moved I don't remember having that. But yeah, I think the name of the game was simply Track & Field (or I must be thinking of a different game... ) Well anyway. I had a lot of fun with that. And the gun used for Duck Hunt that came with Super Mario Bros. on NES, that was alright. I still don't understand how the gun could have been accurate with the TV. I really don't get it at all. Now that I think about it...it seemed kinda advanced for that time, no?

[PhantomsPandora]

oh man i remember that game as well, my friend across the street had it and I went across the street and competed with them.

I've looked into the DDR stuff too because people have lost huge amounts of weight that way...I'd need at least a ps2 for that and the dance pad too but it would be fun.

[littlepea]

the gun for the NES does sound advanced ... i used to have a sega mega-drive (it was called a genesis in the US) and i had the gun for that too (it was called "the menacer" i think). what you did was, you sat some kind of infra red sensor on top of your tv and then configured it using the menacer game cartridge that came with it - basically it brought a target up on the screen and you pointed it at the centre and pressed a button, so it knew where the centre of your screen was, then it could figure where you pointing on the screen from that (it just crossed my mind that this wouldn't work with widescreen tvs - but they practically didn't exist back in those days). we used it with a terminator 2 game, it was good fun but once the novelty wore off we hardly used it.

as for losing weight, well, that's not something i normally associate with playing computer games, but if it works then you might as well try it - it's a good excuse to get a ps2 as well

[Tara]

Man y'all suck. lol None of you have Gamecube? I think you can get it for a little cheaper than a PS2. (Gotta be like me, think cheap ;D)

Anyway, yes, that's another reason I was happy to get it, and that's because sometimes I fear of gaining weight and all (even though I dance often ) and so I thought this would be good and fun for me. Like I said, this game has the aerobics workout on it too. ;D

[littlepea]

one of my friends has a gamecube, it's great fun

i wish they made every game for every console, cos right now it's like, you buy a ps2 to play final fantasy, you buy an x-box to play halo, you buy a gamecube to play mario and you buy a pc to play half life and counterstrike ...

i suppose that's the whole idea, though, if they made every game for every format then people would only buy a pc powerful enough to surf the internet and download music, then get the most powerful console (currently the gamecube, i believe, even though it may be cheaper) to play their games.

the ps2 is the least powerful of the current consoles, but you could do what i do and steal it off a relative ;D definitely the cheapest way

[Tara]

Nah, even if they made every game for every console, I'd at least have a PC and something else. I've been playing videogames since I was 4...for about 14 years, I was used to holding the control in my hand and playing. Although I did have a controller similar to the N64 one for my computer, but I don't know what happend to it.

Consoles are more fun than the PC consoles. I only use my PC for games like Sims and Starcraft. (Although they do have Starcraft for N64. I really can't imagine what that's like)

[Tigress]

Tara said:

The name of the game that goes with it is Dance Dance Revolution (I think there are quite a few versions of it and other dance games).

I LOVE Dance Dance Revolution! lol You can get sweet karaoke games, but I'm not sure if they have them for Gamecube or not.