Our Pump It Up machine (2000) is finally up and running 💪
Picked up in 2023 as “working”… it wasn’t ⚰️ After a long hunt, we sourced a new game board and brought it back to life 🔥
Now running Prime 2 (2018) with 400+ songs
Try it out at our next event 10–12 April #pumpitup
#PumpItUp is the most fun in my opinion, because the pads are big and hard to miss, they're arranged in an X so there's a handy place to put your feet (plus it's a lot harder to mix up up & down since they're not next to each other). It also just... I don't know, has dance sequences that are more fun to do, letting you jump and stomp all around on the pads instead of just barely moving your feet so you can hit the correct one in time. My favorite moments playing this type of game are when my feet touch the floor less than 20% of the time, and PIU lets me do that a lot.
It's also by far the most lenient of the the three when it comes to scoring :D
The window for a Perfect is insanely wide, and not only is there no penalty for extraneous inputs, it doesn't check if you start a hold before it told you to, so if you start a hold half a beat early and release it half a beat late you'll get a perfect. It almost feels like cheating to do that, so I generally don't, but it's still fun.
Just got home after two hours from an arcade where I got to play a bunch of dancing rhythm games back to back. There's a surprising variety of such and the arcade had them all so I got to copare and contrast them.
The big three are #DDR / #DanceDanceRevolution, #PumpItUp, and #StepManiaX. They're all pretty similar in basic concept -- four or five pads on the floor that you have to step on, on beat to a J/Kpop song, and a bar that you can lean on to help you do that -- but surprisingly different in everything but that.
There's also #DanceRushStardom which is completely different and doing its own thing and which I cannot figure out how to play.
I have thoughts on them all 🡇
(I'd like to preface this by saying I'm not particularly _good_ at any of the games in question. I play sevens on DDR, fives on PIU, and Easy Plus on SMX, which I played for the first time today. This is very much a novice's perspective.)
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Mar. 5 #pumpitup #piuphoenix
Been a bit since I've had anything to share, but today was good.
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Hola #fedifiesta, #VámonosJuntas #juntas y otres. Va mi #presentación, que nunca la había hecho, aunque llevo rato acá:
Soy el lobi, vivo en #BuenosAires.
Me gusta el #parkour #FreeRunning y las #ArtesMarciales #DefensaPersonal. A veces patino #skate, paleteo/raqueteo o juego fútbol (mixto) socialmente.
También me gustan los videojuegos de #música como #PumpItUp #PIU, #Ultrastar #karaoke, #TaikoNoTatsujin #taiko, #Rocksmith... Aprendí un poco de piano y canto, pero ppalmente #guitarra.
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