Posted by bradyb

http://www.ddrfreak.com/

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Over the years our family has bought a few different game systems, Nintendo Game Cube, Sony PlayStation 2, and so on, but we’ve always had a hard time getting a game that all 3 of my kids will play and all enjoy. This Christmas we bought Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2, and we are now a bunch of dancing maniacs! Everyone in my immediate family uses it from my 4 year old son to his 60+ Grandmother. It’s really a workout to go for 30 or so minutes trying to keep up with some of these really fast songs.

This leads me to go in search of other DDR fans. I found a home away from home for DDR fans called DDR Freak. Here at this site they have just about everything you could think of for DDR Fans, such as a locations database (users can submit locations), very busy discussion forum, ddr news, links and discussion of DDR Tournements. And when I say a busy forum,

it’s huge! By my calculations: 59259 topics, which has generated 1789672 posts. With the first user signing up in January 2002. To give some perspective I have a fan site, and in 1 and a half years of operation, that has what I thought was an impressive 49000+ posts.

From there About Us page:

DDR Freak was started on March 12, 2000 for the benefit of Northern California DDRers to get together and promote DDR around the SF Bay Area. It began when a small group of DDRers gathered at Milpitas Golfland every friday night to play DDR. As the group became larger, we decided that a website was a good idea, and it was first hosted on a UC Berkeley instructional server. Weeks passed, and DDR Freak started to get more than a few hundred hits a week, then a few thousand… Eventually, ddrfreak.n3.net became ddrfreak.com, and it continued togrow.DDR Freak has since expanded its reach to DDRers nationwide and continues to serve as a community for DDRers.

All in all it’s a great site, I don’t think I would ever be able to delve into the total depths of it, but I sure as hell signed up as a member and I recommend you do to if you love DDR.

Recent Headlines from DDR Freak:

• DDR World Record Event - May 19th, 2008 - Nokia Theater
• Konami opens US DDR SuperNOVA 2 site, releases unlock code!
• A Konami-organized national DDR tournament in the works?
• Rock Band to come out for Wii
• Konami wants your feedback regarding the future of DDR!
• Rock Band downloadable content goes six times platinum
• Where should e-AMUSEMENT go next?
• e-AMUSEMENT service: finally coming to America!
• Konami launches DDR Online Community
• Merry Christmas from all of us at DDR Freak!
• Holiday wish list!
• North American Field Test of DrumManiav4 and GuitarFreaksv4
• Governator accepts DDR into California schools
• DDR Coverage by Gametactics.com at E3
• DDR @ NYC 2007! - The 00 DDR Championships at DigitalLife