Web List analysis

Given the nature of DDR, the majority of research for the paper will be web based. To this end here is a list of relevant sites with a brief description of how useful they were.

This site was mainly based around the retail of DDR equipment for domestic use. It is useful in that it sold the full range, past and present of DDR titles and thus gave a sense of how long the game has been out for and the various style changes over time.

http://www.ddrgame.com/


The wikipedia entry for DDR was useful in giving a god general overview of the game and where it is played. It also gave a good account of the actual play process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution

This is a games spot review of the playstation 2 release of DDR. It was useful for seeing how the game was affected by being moved to a different platform.

http://au.gamespot.com/ps/puzzle/dancedancerevolution/

This is a u tube clip of a DDR competition (it actually isn’t DDR but another arcade game very similar to it). This was useful to actually see what goes on with DDR at a larger level than just an arcade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIt-sv6zQZY


This site gives a fairly in-depth and technical over of the various arcade version of DDR that have been released. This was good for getting an idea of what goes into the technical side of the arcade DDR.

http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=detail&id=4433