Research on dance machines

Research for my game will be about dance style games. These games can be found in the cinema and other places like bowling arenas. These games work similar to mine because you have to put pressure on the right pressure pads. It tells you on the screen which pressure pad you'll have to push down, for example if you have to hit the left arrow on the screen you'll have to hit down the left pressure pad.

Dance dance revolution is a dance music video style game. It was produced in Japan by a company called Konami and it was soon released around America and Europe in the 1999's. It was the first game of it of its kind and it was a huge hit around arcades and cinemas. To play this game you had to stomp on the right pressure pad matching the one on the screen, this game become really popular because after you have finished playing the game you could add your score to the leader boards and you could beat your friends score.

Game play for this game involved the person choosing the song that they wanted to listen too, when you hit the rights arrows you would get a score, hit the arrows at the right time you would get a better score, for example if you hit it perfectly you would get a bigger score. Some of the games were also available in two players mode, in this you could either play against the player or play with the other play. In  play against the other you both dance to the same song but have a separate scoring systems so whoever has the highest overall score at the end of the song wins the game. In play with mode you both dance to the song but the score adds  to combine and overall score at the end. 

As the game progressed the game play/mode became harder starting with basic difficulty then going up to manic level then all the way up to expert level which is the most difficult mode to play.