"Carrie Swidecki, a 35 year old public school teacher from Bakersfield, CA, got her exergaming groove on and broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Marathon on a Dance / Rhythm Game playing DanceDanceRevolution (SuperNova 2 arcade game) in Charleston, West Virginia yesterday at 12:30 a.m. EDT. Ms. Swidecki broke the previously held record of 13 hours 33 minutes 56 seconds, set in the United Kingdom in October, 2010, with a time of 15 hours, 17 minutes and 44 seconds." -- Wiiloveit.com (Official Press Release)
IGN writes: "Kids can dance into the New Year at SUBWAY restaurants with the all-new DanceDanceRevolution promotion. Konami and SUBWAY restaurants today announced a partnership that will help promote a healthy lifestyle for children by delivering the fun and excitement of Konami's best-selling get-up-and-move video game to children everywhere. From December 29, 2008 thru March 29, 2009, participating SUBWAY restaurants will offer one of six exclusive, high quality DanceDanceRevolution branded premium toy accessories along with a $10 coupon good on any of the newest DanceDanceRevolution games with each purchase of a SUBWAY FRESH FIT FOR KIDS meal."
You know this kind of sucks if your an adult and like DDR, if I go in there not going to make a fool of myself by buying a kids meal to get that coupon. Then again, their hasn't been another DDR to this date that I've wanted. Many have become so butchered and skewed it's not really fun anymore. To many of a few American songs are kind of running the buzz for me, and to few Jpop and JRock songs.
What Konami should do is go the Rock band and Guitar Hero route by making a DDR game PS3, Wii, and 360 and offer DLC for it. That way no one will have to worry about picking up another copy to play songs they want to and Konami won't have to waste their time doing more of the discs. Of course if this happens I'd like a create-a-character mode just as well.
besides it could be for my kid...............or I just want the coupon with some food.
I think I'll have me a big greasy American burger value meal with no toy instead. Subway really is not that great...worst sandwich chain around....if it takes you eating out to have a "healthy lifestyle", then you are living a pretty sh!tty life.
One of the most important titles in the history of casual gaming can stand up proud this week, with Konami's Dance Dance Revolution dance mat series reaching the ripe old age of ten.
Known as Dancing Stage in Europe, the series first arrived in Japanese arcades on November 21st 1998 and quickly went on to become a gaming sensation. Konami ditched the traditional joypad or joystick and introduced a pressure-sensitive dance mat that registers when a player's foot hits each of the four directional pads.
It didn't take long for the arcade craze to make the move to consoles, and the series arrived on Sony's pioneering PlayStation in Japan early in 1999, bringing with it the first iteration of the console dance mat.
NextGen Player writes:
"A growing % of children are finding interactive gyms, equipped with variety of video games consoles hooked up to exercise machines, to be a motivational alternative to traditional health clubs.
Bulldog Interactive Fitness For Youth, Canada's first interactive fitness facility is a leading this new craze with 10 locations across the country since it's inception in 2005. The gym offers interactive programs for children aged 3 to teen, which include games such as Dance-Dance Revolution, racing game DiRT (hooked up to an exercise bike), and Wii Sports. Very cool indeed."
More after the jump.
