Dance Dance Revolution series - in short DDR - comes under party games as popular music video games on Arcade, Sony PlayStation, Sony PlayStation 2, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows; first introduced in Japan in 1998 and later in North America and Europe in 1999.
There is a stage called the dance platform and all the players stand on it. They are supposed to hit with their dancing steps the colored arrows that are laid out in a cross as they get a cue of the music either auditory or a visual one. If they do it right and well they are judged as having passed the round and are authorized to choose the next round of music.
The games in the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) series have become a fad for the health conscious generation used as an exercise tool in many gyms and schools and not only as party games for entertainment. Hundreds of home home video game console releases have come up since its first introduction into the market. There is no dearth of arcade-based releases all through the world as well. It has won a global fan base of millions of enthusiasts who have created original simulators of the game to make the experience much richer both in quality and quantity.
If you could successfully hit your arrows in time with the music, the Dance Gauge goes filled up; but if you failed, it gets drained. Draining it full loses the game for you and you are barred from playing any more music. If you could avoid draining till the end, your performance is rated with a letter grade as well as a numerical score. Depending on your performance you may get another chance to play the music again and dance to its tune on the arrows once again trying to improve your performance further.
There are many levels of difficulty one can play along named as "Beginner", "Basic/Light/Standard", "Another/Trick/Standard/Difficult", "Maniac/Heavy/Expert" and "Challenge".
There are also quite a few gameplay modes that have kept being introduced with the introduction of new additions in the Dance Dance Revolution or the DDR series with the passage of time as these popular music video games kept widening their base, and are named as Nonstop modes, Workout Mode, Event Mode, Unison Mode, Battle Mode, Step Battle Mode, and many mission modes in the recent home versions of these popular dance party games.
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