DDR
Today my Mom and I discovered the Joys of Dance Dance Revolution. I took her to Salem Willows to celebrate a belated Mother's Day. We had a great time! (We played air hockey too - she kicked my ass.) It took us a while to figure out how to even work the game so that two people could play - but once we got it, Wheeee!I'm sure that we looked really funny - two fat chicks yelling "Left! Right! Both! Back! Again!" and sweating, giggling and jumping around. We had trouble getting past the first level of difficulty for beginners, but by the time we ran out of quarters we had made it to the final stage. When we were all done Mom said that we should do it again - but bring bottled water and have paramedics on standby.
I can't wait to play again; who knew that exercise could be so much fun. Dammit.
posted by coffeesnob @ Wednesday, May 17, 2006
8 Comments:
First: you have a cool mom.
Second: DDR is the ultimate way to get fat American kids to exercise. We knew one kid back at john's shop who broke his leg playing, he was so into it.
We can't play on our PS2 with a mat to jump on, because our house would fall down. But we play with controllers and get very healthy
thumb muscles out of it. Believe it or not it's really fun with your hands too, because you can do things your feet would never keep up with and just zone out to the crack-ass music and hallucinatory backgrounds.
I swear it was aimed at kids to get them to move around and make it so they don't even need drugs, but most of the kids we knew would use whatever substance they could get their 15 year old hands on and then come in and play for hours, only stopping to eat some sugar here and there.
Gonna be a healthy generation.
You can get it for the PS2 with a special mat. OH I just read Megan's comment. Yeah it's really for those with no downstairs neighbor.
What I want is the golf club simulator for the PS2. Or the Bass fishing pole with active resistance
How do you break a leg playing a game?
Nice monkeys I don't know how many people have said to me if Willows ever closes they're going to buy the coconut monkey juke box.
See my flickr for more monkeys and other Willows stuff.
I was just thinking that if we ever wanted to destroy (!) 30 Orne we could drink too much and play DDR there. (not that we ever frigging would, of course!)
You break your leg by trying to stomp a pad hard on the beat, every beat, at 200 bpm.
Hmmm...could we pull the tv out to the front door and put the mat on the ground in the walkway? The old lady next door would kill herself trying to get to the window to see what we intoxicated no good kids were up to. And eventually the police would come because they don't have much to do over there. I think we should do it!
I am in awe of you, I am far too shy to do that in public. I so want to get a PS2 so I can play DDR since I am the downstairs neighbor!
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I LOVE the monkey machine! It was the first thing I put money in at Stacy's birthday. I am SO sad that the "Felix the Cat" for $.05 and has a hand crank. Each image is on a piece of paper. SO retro! I wish I had it in my house!
I LOVE to play Centipede and Millipede. Any game that involves killing bugs. Dean & I play the shoot the zombie games and skee ball every chance we get. We play no rules skee ball.
Cheers!
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