for the DDR crowd

[cellio]

Pump-it-up dreams

As you might conclude from the above, the choir crowd went to Dave & Busters last night instead of Gullifty's. The food was decent. There aren't that many places that can satisfy all our constraints: serves food after 10, not smoky or noisy, and provides options for a vegetarian and someone (else) who's lactose-intolerant. This seemed to work, though I didn't look closely at the meat options to see if there were sufficient non-dairy ones among them.

After we ate, Chris demonstrated Pump It Up and got Gail to play one round with him. It looks like it would be fun; maybe next time I'll try it. Or maybe I'll try to sneak over to Chris' or Deanna's house, ask the occupant to set up the game and then leave, and try it out in private. :-) (At my current level of exposure, Pump It Up and DDR are basically interchangable.)

Comments

[dr4b]

hmm, so the thing about DDR/PIU is - I think you'd have some natural talents but also some natural problems with it. The talent would be, you are a musician and know about reading music. Essentially, DDR arrows are a score - they represent certain events happening at certain time intervals. Also, you've done some dance stuff (right?) so keeping a beat with your feet isn't an issue either. But, the disadvantage I think you would have in most setups is that the screen would probably be too far away from you to be able to sight-read a lot of the faster songs. (At home you could space it however you want, though) I think you'd at least be able to do well enough at it to understand why people get totally hooked on these games, at least...