Dance Dancing

Have you seen the Dance Dance machine at Duckets? Remember the game "Simon"? where you'd press colors as fast as the tune? Dance Dancing is like that, except for feet.

In Indiana, they're calling it Dance Fever: "Dance Dance Revolution, known as D.D.R. by the young people who queue up to play it in the arcades, is a Japanese innovation that is beginning a tsunami-like sweep across America.

The game is made by Konami, a company whose popular Web site — ddrfreak.com — says there are already more than 500 D.D.R. machines in the country, including the one at Duckets.

D.D.R. is sort of like a jukebox with an attitude — or karaoke for the feet. The machine asks players to chose from a selection of 77 disco dance routines, ranging in difficulty from beginner to advanced. Players hop onto a soft, foot-friendly platform where they stand facing a large screen."