If you are too young or too shy to go to a night club and dance, and you don't want to look like a fool doing it alone, then Dance Dance Revolution is for you. Across from the deserted Print Club machines you will find the latest fad, a video game that takes more energy than any I have ever seen. The player stands on a platform with four touch-sensitive pads surrounding the feet. As the speakers blare with some (damn groovy, I think) music, the video screen shows a procession of arrows pointing left and right, forward and backward. The player must touch the appropriate foot pad in time to the arrows, resulting in dance-like movement, a big audience following along, and Japan's next craze.

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