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When the music faded and the bespectacled pedagogue took his leave after competing in Round 7 of the first annual Harvard-MIT Valentine’s Day Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) competition—pitting members of both schools’ math departments against each other—Ds were all that were showing on the screen behind...
Among the key players in the affair were Harvard’s Valentino “The Humidifier” Tosatti, a third-year grad student of Italian lineage who keeps two DDR pads in his office, and two more at his home in the Mediterranean, but nevertheless noted that he is “very much out of training...
Guitar Hero is nowhere near as egregious an offender as the popular game “Dance Dance Revolution.” “DDR,” as termed by acolytes, features gameplay which is about as representative of actual dancing as the doggie paddle is of Olympic swimming. The game has become a staple of bowling alleys, arcades, malls, and suburban basements, but its popularity has its own attendant hazards...
...avoid her cat, which had run across the dance pads into the path of her flailing feet. A 15 year-old girl—again in Omaha; maybe it’s something in the water?—suffered a heart seizure while playing an arcade version of DDR...
Ironically enough, the game has been installed in many public school gymnasiums across the country, as a part of official fitness programs. DDR retails with a calorie counter option, so the hope of school administrators seems to be that loafers can be changed into athletes through the subversive fun of an active video game; not everyone is convinced...