Good move, Konami. For anyone who's been on these forums for a while you'll know I'm a DDR fan and I've always liked the idea of DDR machines in a gym. After being a gym member for a few years I came to the conclusion that gyms and working out are very boring, basicly due to lack of challenge, motivation and more importantly lack of fun. This can lead to many quiting gyms altogether like I did.

I really hope gyms in the u.k catch on to DDR too and maybe I'll renew my membership. (Next possible idea is to get them into schools and we might be able to kiss childhood obesity goodbye in a few years.) Alternatively I can do the same at home for free on my PSone/PS2. I have my eye on a new £90 hard dance mat from Argos.

Should be interesting to see if stateside gym membership goes up because of DDR. Who knows, a trip to the gym might result in PS2s being sold with DDR more.

if memory servs, and ocasionaly it doesnt, i seem to recal seeing a photo of the good doctor dee thrashing up the half pipe in his back yard on these very forums... and while he may gleem more cubes than i coudl ever hope to i dont recal thinking to myself... damn, theres is a guy who cartwheels everywhere he goes... is this the end of spongs world renowned journalistic integrity? or are we just being clever cause you guys only have like 3 "spong" specific employees?

i must find that picture.....

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ok... so either i'm a full on mongy... an unfortunate possibility... or the forum search thing doesn't work... i dunno if its my browser or if norton is fudging with things... but no matter what the criteria are that i enter... no matches found is the result. I'm relatively sure i have used it from thi very PC in the past.

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Let it go dude.

And feast your eyes and split your sides at this piece of history..taken from that altogether gayer time, the 1980s. possibly the 1880s. At a place called the Cow Bowl. Because we once had to drag the rotting corpse of a dead cow out of it before we could skate.



Just look at the colours. Pink slide rails, green trucks, yellow pads, psychedlic sick coloured shorts (they were great, but they fell apart in a matter of days). Ah, skating makes me nostalgic.

And me pulling a lip-slide nose-grab, while drinking a can of Fanta.* You just can't pull tricks that lame in ANY version of THPS.

I do cartwheel most places. And I go to the gym bofore work three times a week. No DDR there though, just overweight middle-aged men running like hamsters on a wheel.

If they did introduce DDR to the gym, they'd have to do it on one of those private class rooms where everyone is performing the sam e ridiculous act together, whther it be spinning, yoga or "step". In the main gym it would lead to derision, and perhaps a beating in the car park later.

* I no longer drink products of the Coca-Cola company for these reasons.

Wow, Doctor!

You're pulling so many XXXtreme Gs that your kneepad slipped down your leg!

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