New DDR game aimed at fighting obesity

They should try going to the arcades since that seems to be where the competition is.  Seriously, my eyes can't keep up with how fast they step on a 3x3 dance floor.

Great idea :)

A good friend of mine has StepMania and he played that to get in better shape.  He would always top of the exercise with the Rock Lee theme that was adapted for the game.  That song burned over 9000 calories in one play through.

And all this because no one wants to help people in general be more responsible for their own lives and health? Appreciate the gesture, but you're not helping those that aren't helping themselves...

Seems GameSpot may have missed the Exergaming revolution in the Digital Out-of-Home entertainment (DOE) sector. The Pump it Up franchise has been in the fitness scene for the last few years - release by Positive Gaming as iDANCE this has 32 connected platforms! And Konami have been working in this sector for some time.

looooooooool poor fatties.

Take a deep breath. Maybe a glass of water. Read the title again. Now try to accept that this is real.

Why isn't this DDR game aimed at fighting the enemies of Eastern Germany? Oh right, it's that other DDR. 

Edit: Oh la la, we finally have an edit function. God dammit, it's about time!

As a kid, I played a lot DDR Mario Mix, I didn't like much DDR games, but I don't know what happened with this one, I played it every single day in hard mode over a month. 

I remember I weighted about 165 pounds, after a month, I weighted about 142 pounds, that was insane!

It's a fun way to lose weight.

Too bad It was borrowed :(

to all the obese kids, it's not your fault.

This will likely promote social anxiety and peer pressure due to being unable to perform better than the other kid who is more popular than you. This in turn will generate social stress that then will lead to school shootings.

The logic all adds up.

They could just run around on the track.

Where's the section that asks "Bogus or not bogus?"  Oh, wait.  You mean this is for real?

Horrible idea.

So....are they ever gonna make a new one for us vets?

it better fuckin come to consoles lol.. i love the DDR games

What a horrible idea!!!!  Just what we need, some gadget to showcase overweight students to the rest of the kids.  I wonder what Konami can create to stem the depression and shame this is going to generate.  

I don't believe that video games cause children to be more violent, but I certainly can see some kid coming back to shoot up his classmates over this.

fatties should learn about nutrition and the keto diet instead of sinking money into some stupid scam weight-loss game.

Oh, whatever. If that's how they want to spend their gym class let them. We live in a country where our poorest families, literally the people with the fewest resources, also have the highest incident of obesity. When simple and free solutions are sitting right outside the window and you decide to spend 10,000 dollars on a complicated one there's just no hope of change.

What? This game isn't new at all. I remember reading about it years ago, and there's a video of it on Youtube dated Feb 27th, 2012! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbTuDWqAIPM

All the exercise in the world won't do any good if parents keep stuffing their children full of fast food, processed food, and high fructose corn syrup.

2004 called, they want their fad back.

ROFL - MAT controllers? I'm sure playing on basic is gonna burn a lot more calories, right? Give it to the kids on Extreme and they'll fail every single song.

Um, no, sorry, no. It's not the school's responsibility to get kids in shape. That's the parents job. Stop trying to get government institutions to parent children. It's a terrible idea.

Hmmm... The benefits of this will be completely negated by mom and dad's McDonalds surprise. Want to fight obesity? Educate the parents, no more soda, no more high fructose corn syrup, etc. I'm glad to see some initiative by a game developer, but bring the parents into the situation to help the kids even more... I'm betting some parent will pull their kid from this because there is "nothing wrong with the way the kid is" That said, I'm off to go do a Les Mills Combat workout...

As well as being a gaming culture icon, DDR is the most simplest rhythm game available despite having Kinect games like Dance Central and Wii Fit for the Wii. No 'tuning this' or 'play in well lit areas' to get it to work. Everyone should be still playing it.

Waste of cash imo, what happened to sports and PE ?...if the kids fat then its their choice, they can do something about it or let it be, not the teachers problem

could have sworn drr counted cals burned already for a long time now

Can't wait to hear the results after awhile. 

DDR - the only sensitive way of telling your students that they are fat.

Curse you Michelle Obama! *shakes fist in the air* 

DDR was mainly how I lost all my weight. Used to weigh 190, but with DDR and finally doing my workouts, im down to a nice 135. Active player since 2002