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Dance Dance Revolution Spawns TV Show

Posted by Zonk on Fri May 12, 2006 08:23 PM
from the dick-clark-it-ain't dept.
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lfescalante writes to mention a unique synergistic melding of television and gaming: A Dance Dance Revolution TV show. From the article: "Dance Revolution, said all parties involved, is a live-action television series based on Konami's extremely popular video game franchise Dance Dance Revolution. Notes published by DIC and Konami describe this series as one in which 'tweens' and teens bring their freshest moves to this sensational new dance competition where teams of dancers display their innovative routines."
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  • How about audience participation? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Metaphorically (841874) * on Friday May 12 2006, @08:31PM (#15322688) Homepage
    The audience can watch and jump around too, that's a nice first step. The really cool part would be to get some feedback (via Eyetoy and an internet connection). Then the viewers can judge player's performances or the judges on the show could judge players at home... or something like that. The technology's all there, just waiting for the ideas to catch up.
  • Morning?? Now I KNOW I'm not going to watch it. Who gets up in the morning?
  • TV shows need a certain amount of plot. This has none. Same goes for American Idol and other scum.

    Of course, this may be "sour grapes" because I suck at DDR.
    • TV shows need a certain amount of plot. This has none. Same goes for American Idol and other scum.

      Didn't your last statement demonstrate that you don't need a certain amount of plot for a TV show to be successful? (because American Idol is successful, you can't say it's not)

      • American Idol has the oldest plot in the book: X defeats Y.

        In fact there have been a lot of otherwise plotless shows lately that take the "audience votes someone off every week" or "remaining players vote someone off every week" approach to manufactoring tension. It can be very powerful; shows otherwise completely uninteresting can at least borrow some sort of tension from it, like those "Who Will Be The Next Host Of Show X?" contests.
    • TV shows need a certain amount of plot. This has none. Same goes for American Idol and other scum.
      I guess you are too young to remember prime time game and variety shows. (Or 'American Bandstand' or 'Soul Train'.)

      All sucesses, none having a plot.

  • They're getting desperate, reality TV shows, but this takes the biscuit. Still, DDR is vaguely cool.

    ((I feel like such a hypocrit, I own a damn metal Dance Pad and almost all the games >_>))

  • Watching TV != DDR's Goal? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by jkeyes (243984) on Friday May 12 2006, @08:58PM (#15322798) Journal
    I thought DDR was about getting up, moving and maybe getting some exercise and not sit around watching TV. So by making a TV show about getting up and moving isn't that somewhat counterproductive to DDR's intent? I mean I know it's only 1 30 minute show and they're probably watching TV anyway but still it's like those informericials (which is what I'm expecting this to be) for exercise equipment I mean if you're up at 2 AM watching it I really really doubt that $250 ab sharpener, butt tightener and tanner in 1 is going to help.

  • Is it called.. (Score:3, Funny)

    by springbox (853816) on Friday May 12 2006, @09:10PM (#15322852)
    "So you think you can dance" [fox.com] on FOX?
  • I love DDR, and In the Groove (*pulls gun away from Konami exec*), butthink that a TV show has to be done just right. If it promotes playing the game then the serries could make the game a lot more popular, but overkill and it will not be allowed to grow into a genre and die like Pokemon did, with every other spawn just as bad as the next (unlike DDR spawning RoXor's AWSOME In the Groove 1/2/upcoming 3). I look foward to watching this, but hope they do it right.
  • Tee vee? What's that? Oh, you mean the screen to which we plug the game consoles?
  • DDR...Line Dancing for the Rave Generation!

    ttyl

  • 10K Commotion (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Fex303 (557896) on Friday May 12 2006, @11:25PM (#15323304)
    While a lot of people (myself included) think that this will have no storyline and be essentially a giant ad for merchandise, there a webcomic series based on DDR which is actually pretty good: The 10K Commotion [10kcommotion.com]


    Even if you don't like DDR (like me) I suggest checking it out briefly, if only for the distinctive artwork.


    PS. I am not affiliated with the comic, DDR, or the secret service. Especially not DDR.

  • If this guy is on it, I'll watch... (Score:5, Funny)

    by sumbry (644145) on Friday May 12 2006, @11:55PM (#15323393) Homepage
    if this guy [youtube.com] is on it, i'll watch.

    (anyone that can do DDR on one leg deserves my 30 mins)
  • I think Konami is desperately trying to save the franchise they've been ignoring for too long. It all ended back in 2002, when KCEJ made the last DDR mix - DDR Extreme. After that, there wouldn't be any mixes anymore - DDR was quite effectively dead in Japan. Konami of America has been churning out some (rather mediocre) home versions of DDR. Of course, you can't really target the hardcore players at home - but when you have more machines upgraded with bootlegs to DDR Extreme than there are tru DDR US-mixes
    • I agree, Konami has fallen way behind and ITG is the premier game these days, but Konami has released SuperNova to Europe. Yes, it's already out. And yes, it really does have 300+ songs. (301 on the default songlist from what I hear.)
    • Ages 10-12.
      • tweens = in between being a little kid and a teenager, i.e. big enough to not hold hands crossing the road, but too little to go anywhere anyway. This leaves lots of time to creat cool DDR routines with your friends for television shows.

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