The lights are on
Anyone who's played Konami's arcade hit Dance Dance Revolution with any level of seriousness knows that this game can work up a serious sweat. Konami is leveraging the physical activity element of the game in order to work with schools to fight weight problems in children.
Konami announced today that they will unveil Dance Dance Revolution Classroom Edition on February 24 at the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance State Conference. The new game will run on PC and will allow teachers and supervisors to connect up to 48 mats to single copy for full classroom participation.
It's not totally clear how DDR Classroom Edition will be made available to schools or how much it will cost, but it's great to see Konami expanding its popular game into a realm where it could positively impact the health of the players.
Now something that you can do in school that gets you on your feet instead of doing a crapload of class work.
Math with dancing!
sure if this came to my school i would try it.
I wish more parents actually tried to combat this in their kids
OH ****
best way to combat childhood obesity is with a chainsaw.
I knew DDR could be a good work out , but I would never think that it would be a big awesome armature dance party. Just think how stinky the classroom would be.
This is awesome. I wish my childhood had this. And just think, the computer already comes with a grading system.
yeah! i think its kind of cool that schools are implementing a nice twist to p.e like a cool game of DDR to break up the predictability of the same routine , this way it becomes more interactive and fun where there could be teams , one on one , two on two and so on and at the same time learn some nice dance steps hahhahahaha......... but all in all its a great idea to me
thank god! this continant is full of fat kids with idiotic parents telling them to love themselves just how unhealthy they are...go konami!!
Yes! An excuse to play a game in school! Thank you konami
This is cool, it's a good way to get kids active, and it'll likely keep them interested. I wonder what age groups they're targeting. Hopefully younger ones, that will get into this more. Not that DDR isn't fun to older kids, but I can bet you probably won't be getting a whole lot of people up in front of the class having a dance off.
This is a great idea but this isn't really all that new. In the highschool I attended it had a PS2 with a good dancepad not the cheap vinyl ones but after playing it everyday for an entire semester I could play from beginner all the way to standard.
I like this idea and if its successful then great. Let's see what happens with the results.
I wish they did this when i was in high school. Maybe my college classes will get this. I'm really glad they're deciding to do something for today's obesity. It's getting out of hand.
That is really cool; time for those kids to lose some weight. They should get that over here where I live; we got some majorly fat kids...I feel sorry for them. I wish their parents cared enough about them to make them eat healthier, but that's just my opinion.
48 pads, eh? Now that, I'd like to see.
But something else bothers me a bit: if this is for the PC, how do they expect all 48 of those kids to be able to see the screen (provided that 48 kids are playing, of course)? Most computer monitors aren't nearly big enough for that kind of thing. The most reasonable choice of action would be to implement a projection screen, but with all of this extra hardware/software, it seems like this is going to cost quite a bit, and that would cause schools to be less likely to approve of it. Sad, indeed...