GamesRadar - Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition

Subway Restaurants Will Have Kids Dancing At Their Tables With DanceDanceRevolution Premiums (News)

Jan 6, 2009

IGN writes: "Kids can dance into the New Year at SUBWAY restaurants with the all-new DanceDanceRevolution promotion. Konami and SUBWAY restaurants today announced a partnership that will help promote a healthy lifestyle for children by delivering the fun and excitement of Konami's best-selling get-up-and-move video game to children everywhere. From December 29, 2008 thru March 29, 2009, participating SUBWAY restaurants will offer one of six exclusive, high quality DanceDanceRevolution branded premium toy accessories along with a $10 coupon good on any of the newest DanceDanceRevolution games with each purchase of a SUBWAY FRESH FIT FOR KIDS meal."

Dance Dance Revolution celebrates 10th birthday (News)

Nov 24, 2008

One of the most important titles in the history of casual gaming can stand up proud this week, with Konami's Dance Dance Revolution dance mat series reaching the ripe old age of ten.

Known as Dancing Stage in Europe, the series first arrived in Japanese arcades on November 21st 1998 and quickly went on to become a gaming sensation. Konami ditched the traditional joypad or joystick and introduced a pressure-sensitive dance mat that registers when a player's foot hits each of the four directional pads.

It didn't take long for the arcade craze to make the move to consoles, and the series arrived on Sony's pioneering PlayStation in Japan early in 1999, bringing with it the first iteration of the console dance mat.

Study Says Video Games Can Give a Workout (News)

Feb 7, 2008

The American Council on Exercise (ACE) put the video game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) to the test and fond that the game can be a very good workout for children. ACE commissioned the study out of the University of Wisconsin to look at the caloric expenditure of players during the game.

The study used male and female subjects from 12 to 25 years old and half the volunteers were under 18. The study showed that players had a marked increase in exercise intensity as they participated.

Adults burned more calories and on average teens burned 5.9 kcal/min on light, 6.7 kcal/min on standard and 8.1 kcal/min on difficult mode. Test participants used DDR Extreme 2 for the PS2 and a dance pad.

The full report of the study in PDF format is available for download via 14U.

Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition (Review)

Jan 15, 2008

Jan 15, 2008 As professional adults, we rarely put much thought to the Disney Channel and its myriad properties aside from discerning whether or not those mass-forwarded nude shots are really of High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens (they are). But for the tween-and-younger crowd, the house that Mickey built has transformed into a bona fide youth star factory, thanks in large part to Hannah Montana and the aforementioned made-for-TV flick. Between the two franchises, millions of records ...

Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition (Screenshots)

Jan 15, 2008

Dance Dance Revolution Disney Channel Edition released for PS2 (News)

Jan 9, 2008

Do you have children between the ages of 8 and 13? If you said yes then your house has likely been bombarded with music from the Disney Channel on a regular basis. Now Konami brings the music of High School Musical, Hannah Montana, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, That's So Raven, Cheetah Girls, Kim Possible to DDR with Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition.

Forget Rock Band and Guitar Hero III, this is the must own music game on the PS2.