Pump it up?

[Klaymen]

what exactly is a pump it up section?

[Synthlight]

Pump it up is the Korean equiv to DDR

It was requested in another post.


Synthlight

[Klaymen]

thanx synth pic still not working...

[nestlekwik]

Pump= 5-panel "DDR" using K-Pop songs made by Andamiro.
The panels consist of four diagonal arrows and a center panel. Just imagine a DDR pad, but where there's metal, there's a panel, and where there's a panel, there's metal. confusing?
There's a video/photo page here:

http://www.pumpxtreme.net/multimedia.html

It's different enough to not consider it a "rip-off" of DDR, but I don't like it as much, but other people like it better. Just don't knock it til you try it.
Konami finally won the lawsuit over the PUI machines, so Andamiro can't make any more and must pay royalties from what I'm told.
Something I heard: The 1st pump machine, Andamiro took a DDR machine, threw away the pad, made a new one, installed a Windows 98 OS in the cabinet and run the program off of a computer inside a DDR machine.

[Wing11]

Oh i've played this b4 i personally don't like it because of the diagonal steps

[Chakan2]

Actually, that's what I like about PIU. It makes the steps seem more like dancing than DDR. There's more Jazz squares and real dance stuff going on...

[nestlekwik]

Doubles on a PUI machine are a nightmare. The difficulties on PUI go far and beyond the difficulty of most DDR songs, but most of the simpler dance charts, like what Chakan2 said, make for good freestyling.

[Tek.Ni.Que]

Doubles on a PUI machine are a nightmare. The difficulties on PUI go far and beyond the difficulty of most DDR songs, but most of the simpler dance charts, like what Chakan2 said, make for good freestyling.

I find the challenges in PUI so much so much easier than DDR...And I completely suck in DDR =P

[Klaymen]

Well, i am back, from a one week cruise in the carribeans. I played pump it up (in mexico... go figure) and if you have never played it before, or if you are used to ddr, pump is hard as a bitch!!!

[Chakan2]

I started my dance craze with pump. I like FFR just for something to do at work. If I have to get something with an actual pad and all that, I'm going with PIU.

[mastergamer316]

Yo nestlekwik you are wrong about the lawsuit. Konami lost it and piu machines are still being made. The judge said that piu is different from ddr and therefore is not breaking any laws and is allowed to be made.

[nestlekwik]

I know about that one, but there were multiple lawsuits pending. The issue is not stemming from the gameplay itself, but the way PUI machines were orignally created. From what I understand, the very first PUI machines utilized DDR cabinets with a modified pad and ran off of Windows 98. I guess "won" was a poor word choice because Andamiro dropped some pending lawsuits in the U.S. and U.K. from what I've been told. It's been so long ago I don't even remember half the stuff that happened in the lawsuits Perhaps my sources were faulty?

[NessTormented]

I was play PUI about the time i started DDR, but i think PUI is not so much fun, too repetitive. It is harder for sometimes, but once you have used to it its easy.

[hund]

It is harder for sometimes, but once you have used to it its easy.

you could say the samething about DDR

[Kamoa_Han_Senzui]

is this in someway related to 6 panel dancing?