Old DDR Memories - Page 3

chemibro · 08-19-2009, 01:14 AM

I remember this one time way back when my friends and i were obsessed with konamix we were playing in my buddys garage and it started pouring and water started seeping in but we refused to stop and the pad got soaked and shorted out. But it didn't matter cause in those days you could pay an extra like $10 to be able to return a busted pad for a brand new one- no questions asked.

Fairy Red · 08-19-2009, 09:18 AM

Wow, that is some dedication right there!

KevinDidder · 08-26-2009, 02:45 PM

I don't want to derail the thread but:

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Originally Posted by LilRabbitToy

8. I remember riding my bike to Chinatown at 11pm which was probably 7 miles away, just so that I could go to the local DDR Extreme Machine to destroy it. I had a backpack full of scissors and a hammer with me so I can dismantle the DDR machine. The reason why I was up so late because I was jealous of my friend (the enemy mentioned above) who knocked me out of the #1 position for the Nonstop course. So I got the scissors and cut the connection between the pads and I tried smashing the screen with the hammer but I figured it would be too loud and plus there were security folks roaming around. At the end I just took the power cord from the machine so that it will be out of commission. Everything went well, but then the machine got fixed and my enemy friend was #1 again. Good times.

I'm sorry, please please please please please stop playing arcade games. You don't have any respect for property and you really should just be preemptively banned from every arcade in your area for doing such stupid shit. If I saw someone going to smash the shit out of my local machine you'd bet I'd call the cops on them.

Valex · 08-26-2009, 02:50 PM

Yeah everyone knows he's retarded and I'm sure he feels bad, there was no need for that

ranatalus · 08-26-2009, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chemibro

I remember this one time way back when my friends and i were obsessed with konamix we were playing in my buddys garage and it started pouring and water started seeping in but we refused to stop and the pad got soaked and shorted out. But it didn't matter cause in those days you could pay an extra like $10 to be able to return a busted pad for a brand new one- no questions asked.

my roommate and i discovered last night that the UPS we have for our machine will allow you to play for about half an hour if power goes out

chemibro · 08-27-2009, 12:39 AM

Nice. Can't let something like a little storm stop your session!

Fairy Red · 08-27-2009, 01:38 PM

For about half an hour? Dang, even the game is so dedicated!

LNDN · 08-27-2009, 02:32 PM

I remember when I first noticed DDR from the Tip and Tricks DDR issue. I was big into Bust A Groove at the time and when I saw all the DDR characters on the magazine cover, I assumed DDR would be similar. So I went to gamestop and picked up DDR U.S. and was surprised it came with it's own special controller. Took it home, and had the time of my life.

My greatest memories come from a short lived arcade that had 3rd mix. My friends and I would go there all the time and usually had the arcade to ourselves. It was a small town, not many gamers..let alone DDR players.

_____Cait · 08-28-2009, 01:30 AM

I remember one 4th of July, my roomate worked at an arcade with Extreme AC. We must have been there for hours playing.... I have so many good memories of playing that Extreme AC.... Made so many good friends through it. Too abd most of us went our seperate ways now.

BITCH I LOOK LIKE GOKU · 08-28-2009, 02:45 AM

I remember the first time I played, I was trying to get used to the pads not being positioned diagonally, and I kept missing the arrows. Sounds weird, but I'd played pump for over a year and never touched DDR.

So my first song, I try on a DDR USA cab. I think it was Silent Hill (I didn't really listen to the preview, I thought it had something to do with the horror game), and I put it on whatever Light mode was called on that mix. Some asshole Asian dude announced "TOO EASY," and told me that I sucked and I needed to get off. I flipped him off and kept going.

Once I got used to the positioning of the arrows, I was beating the guy by the end of the day on the Extreme machine next to it pretty consistently. It was fun times.

dahrkdaiz · 08-28-2009, 12:00 PM

I started to play DDR just after Extreme came to our arcades. Back then, people would wait in line for hours to play. We had to have sign up sheets and long coin lines. I used to wait 45 minutes between games just to play. Now, if I can't get 2 games in a half an hour, I get pissy

I remember one Friday night where I was playing and there was literally a crowd of people around me and someone else and we were just playing light mode. The energy and thrill really made the arcade come alive. Now I will go through all the 9 footers on doubles and yawn because nothing interests me any more. It's not that DDR isn't fun, I've just almost done everything I've cared to do. The first 2 years was a learning experience and I was constantly getting better. Trying to pass my first 9 footer, HVAM, exotic ethnic, Max 300, Unlimited, Survivor, etc. What is there now? Oh well.

Kiri_No_Haku · 08-28-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by dahrkdaiz

I started to play DDR just after Extreme came to our arcades. Back then, people would wait in line for hours to play. We had to have sign up sheets and long coin lines. I used to wait 45 minutes between games just to play. Now, if I can't get 2 games in a half an hour, I get pissy

I remember one Friday night where I was playing and there was literally a crowd of people around me and someone else and we were just playing light mode. The energy and thrill really made the arcade come alive. Now I will go through all the 9 footers on doubles and yawn because nothing interests me any more. It's not that DDR isn't fun, I've just almost done everything I've cared to do. The first 2 years was a learning experience and I was constantly getting better. Trying to pass my first 9 footer, HVAM, exotic ethnic, Max 300, Unlimited, Survivor, etc. What is there now? Oh well.

Pass Pluto Relinquish Challenge. XD

WTFseabass · 08-29-2009, 05:39 PM

-3rd mix arcade at chuck e cheese was the first one i played back in 2000, it always smelled like dirty sock in their but i dont care, first songs was end of the century, god i remember playing that songs always

-4th mix plus back in 2002 at naughty nicks, hella people!!! every day after school!!! i would stay till they close since the machine was always packed

-5th mix and extreme in 2003 at the arcade mall whimsey. it was a big 3 room arcade and then it was a 1 room arcade and they decided to upgrade the 5th mix to extreme, i was like wtf!!! 5th mix!! NOOOO!!!

-2008 at tracy mall extreme then supernova, yay something new, less less than a year and already supernova 2? ok, not that much people, place suck $1 3 songs with low volume?

all these places are down except for the stupid tracy mall. i miss that day at milpitas golf land when they had the 4th mix tournament.

DJMAX Tekkenika · 08-31-2009, 06:13 AM

My fondest DDR memory is when I got 2nd Mix for my import Dreamcast and one $40 third party crappy soft mat long ago.

My two friends from high school came over and I played in front of them. I got two goods on Captain Jack basic and we were all like holy sh**! I'm certain that nothing will surpass the nerdgasm boiling in my loins after that happened.

Fairy Red · 08-31-2009, 07:50 AM

It's always that one note, huh?