Dance Dance Revolution

Dance Dance Revolution is also known as DDR or Stage in Europe are produced by Konami and are well known in the video arcade halls for their Metal Dance Pads. Dance Dance Revolution was first introduced in Japan in 1998 where the arcade halls have always been popular. After Japan, the DDR became very popular in North America, Europe and Australia. Konami is a big player in the Dance Mat world, since 2005, ninety versions of Dance Dance Revolution have been released covering about 1,000 songs to play on.

The Dance Dance Revolution game works as follows:
Players can score points or lose them depending on how well they're playing. De player has an energy level that he/she has to keep up, if you put your foot down at the right time, you get more energy, if you miss the arrow completely, you will lose energy. Do not lose all your energy or you'll have failed your game. These are the points awarded or deducted per performance:
* Perfect: +2
* Great: +1
* Good: 0
* Boo: -4
* Miss: -8
* O.K.: +6 (when a 'freeze' well)
* N.G.: 0 (when missing a'freeze')

If the player plays well, a combo can be made. A combo means that you have done a series of steps with a minimum socre of "good", the longer the combo, the more points. If the player gets to do the full song in one combo, it's called a "full combo".

Once the song is finished, the player gets to see a general score where "AAA" the best is and "E" the worst. During the game DDR also calculates a numeric score, this number is based on achievement combined with bonusses from combo's. This means that it'd be possible for a player to score an "A" with a low numeric score (then the player has done a lot of good scores but not a lot of combo's) whereas another could score a "C" with a high numeric score (less good scores, but good combo's).

Dance Dance Revolution has produced Stepmania and In The Groove as main DDR games.