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Thursday, July 5, 2007

Dance Dance Revolution... Not So Interactive DVD Game?

- Joel Reed Parker's Game Of The Blog is beloved to me because he has a very similar sense of the weird to me when it comes to games, and a recent round-up post unearths a gem, the Dance Dance Revolution DVD game.

As he points out gleefully: "When showing this to a friend, he was sadly optimistic, saying that DVD technology could handle a game of DDR using the remote to enter the steps. When I showed him a review that stated "The 2 mats that go with this game do NOT attach to anything that scores you - they just go on the floor by themselves." and "it's a little like step aerobics on a flat surface", I think a little piece inside of him died."

Parker also just posted a guide to the 'PD' movies inside The Darkness, since the game "...contains full length movies, music videos and cartoons that play on the televisions throughout the game." And, as a commenter rightly points out, imho: "Except the [Sonny Chiba] Street Fighter stuff is probably not public domain regardless of cheap DVD companies treating it as such. If I was putting out a high profile videogame, I wouldn't risk it."

Comments

Hey! I know that commentator. :D

I know Joel too.

Whoo hoo. A winnar is me.

the commentator was me! Do you know me?

Calm down Sheffenstein, Rob was saying that he commented about the PD status if the Street Fighter movies, you were the one who died a little inside.

And yeah, public domain status of various films is a seemingly never-ending argument that I rarely want to get involved in. Who knows, maybe they paid the right people for those Sonny Chiba flicks. They obviously paid for To Kill A Mockingbird.

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