The Nor-Cal Dance Dance Revolution
While visiting my parents back home this weekend, I uncovered some truly horrifying photos. I was on the hunt for some ancient hard drives of mine that I left behind but what I found was a stash of Kodak envelopes, stuffed with pictures from early years of the Dance Dance Revolution tournament scene which I was a part of. Yes, I was a very sick child.
The pictures go back as early as 1999 when I first discovered Dance Dance Revolution and end in 2001 which is apparently when I got a digital camera. So aside from the obvious popularity (in California, anyway), what’s changed? Now days, freestyle play no longer exists with people only playing the game for high scores. Heck, tournaments don’t even really exist. For the most part, DDR is dead with only the home releases garnering any type of success and it’s not like you’re going to be reading about those anyway.
Check out the set for some ancient Dance Dancing and I’ve embedded the slideshow after the break.
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Jared Rea is a resident of the California Bay Area where he makes a living writing a whole lot of nonsense concerning the video game industry over at 
Wow, that’s nuts. It’s actually kind of funny, I was just watching Tampopo Arcade this morning thinking about the good old days back when DDR was new and interesting. Thanks for posting these!
@Adam ~ rampage: Haha.. Why would you do that? :)
I was just going through some DVDs the other day came across my TA set — the one nobody thought would ever get finished. I just felt compelled to watch, what can I say.
It’s funny that you just happened to post some classic didder at about the same time.
tampopo arcade, to this day, is still one of my favorite movies. Fucking Godden, he was so amazing.
also I am totally flipping out about your photos at 2 am, jared D: AMAZINGGGg