The Top 5 Gateway Games for Hooking Your Boo

Written by: Adam "ManKorn" Korenman, CC2K Video Games Editor

4) Dance Dance Revolution

Let’s face facts: Everybody loves to dance.

If we learned nothing from the movies Footloose or Step Up 68: Rock the Nursing Home, it’s that dance is a method for expressing more than just general gyrations of a sexual nature. Dancing allows you to let out the demons inside and become, for one moment, the zaiest person you can be. In short, it allows you to fly your freak flag.

Just think about the whole concept of dancing. Music (which is just organized noise) starts playing, and your body jumps and shakes to the beat. If you think that’s normal, try watching any dance video with the sound turned off. Now walk down a dank street in a big city and look for another human person doing the same thing. Most likely you’ll think they’re crazy. And guess what? You’re probably right.

Dancing in video games is nothing new. Even before Dance Dance Revolution sprang into arcades around the world, rhythm-based games were already becoming a new phenomenon. Now they’re everywhere, and growing stronger with every soul they claim.

For me, I stumbled upon this realization while hanging out at Dave and Busters, a franchise adult playground. My lady-type was not impressed with the assortment of murder-simulators, nor was she interested in trying to win a smattering of tickets by shooting coins at a frog’s mouth (I seriously don’t understand those types of games anyway). But her eyes lit up when the pumping discoteque music reached our ears. A lithe Asian man was already halfway through an epic game, and his flailing limbs sparked her curiosity until she finally agreed to try it out.

Now, I’m not exactly a Spring chicken when it comes to dancing. Or, rather, I am exactly like a Spring chicken when it comes to dancing, because that’s what it looks like as I bob and weave my way around the dance floor. But my gal didn’t like the idea of following instructions for the steps. She preferred to let the music lead her body down its own tangled path. After receiving a score of “Sweet Mother, Stop That,” my lady drop-kicked the machine into oblivion.