Eva pilots Asuka and Shinji working at home to improve their sync ratios, in the
Japanese TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994-5).
Mario Lopez and Danny Bonaduce playing Dance Dance Revolution on the set
of The Other Half TV series, as Dick Clark looks on (ca. 2001).
Heh. Well, the other videos I had for you are actually linked from the DDR page you linked to. These are really cool I think.
I thought that might be what you had in mind. Take and Yasu are bad ass! When I first saw the Evangelion episode I thought of Twister, but then when I found out about DDR I realized that was what was up. What I still don't know is how far along DDR was in Japan in the early '90s--in other words, the extent to which Evangelion was prescient, design-wise, or just incorporating existing pop culture.
From a Salon article: The electronic roots of these rhythm-based video games can be traced to the call/response gameplay of Simon, the now-classic toy introduced by Milton Bradley in 1977. The computer forerunner was 1984's Break Dance for the Commodore 64. Nintendo's 1988 Power Pad add-on for the Nintendo Entertainment System bore a striking resemblance to DDR's dance pad. The Nintendo game Dance Aerobics could be considered a direct ancestor of DDR. But the idea didn't catch on then. It wasn't until 1997 that PlayStation's Parappa the Rapper reintroduced the Simon concept to the video game world. But it too used only a gamepad to control the action.
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Eva pilots Asuka and Shinji working at home to improve their sync ratios, in the
Japanese TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994-5).
Mario Lopez and Danny Bonaduce playing Dance Dance Revolution on the set
of The Other Half TV series, as Dick Clark looks on (ca. 2001).
- tom moody 3-03-2003 6:45 pm
Heh. Well, the other videos I had for you are actually linked from the DDR page you linked to. These are really cool I think.
- jim 3-05-2003 7:33 pm
I thought that might be what you had in mind. Take and Yasu are bad ass! When I first saw the Evangelion episode I thought of Twister, but then when I found out about DDR I realized that was what was up. What I still don't know is how far along DDR was in Japan in the early '90s--in other words, the extent to which Evangelion was prescient, design-wise, or just incorporating existing pop culture.
From a Salon article:
The electronic roots of these rhythm-based video games can be traced to the call/response gameplay of Simon, the now-classic toy introduced by Milton Bradley in 1977. The computer forerunner was 1984's Break Dance for the Commodore 64. Nintendo's 1988 Power Pad add-on for the Nintendo Entertainment System bore a striking resemblance to DDR's dance pad. The Nintendo game Dance Aerobics could be considered a direct ancestor of DDR. But the idea didn't catch on then. It wasn't until 1997 that PlayStation's Parappa the Rapper reintroduced the Simon concept to the video game world. But it too used only a gamepad to control the action.
- tom moody 3-05-2003 7:59 pm