Rhythm Game Bodega

Welcome to the Rhythm Game Bodega. Under construction. I need to add a Rhythm Game Bodega cat.

My rhythm game journey began in 2015 when I stumbled across the legendary TeRa "Made of Fire" video on YouTube. I was intrigued by the video's title and the gameplay immediately grabbed my attention. I downloaded StepMania and the rest is history. In 2019, I gave osu! a try, started playing FlashFlashRevolution, and took my first steps on an actual DanceDanceRevolution A cabinet. By 2021, I was fully invested into learning how to play DDR properly after discovering the rhythm game cabs at the Tri-County Flea Market. 2022 seemed like my peak year of rhythm games where I was playing StepMania, DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME, beatmania, and osu!mania. Oh, and I also tried my hand at Guitar Hero III and later Clone Hero. They're fun games, but I like playing real guitar lolz. :P

Unfortunatley, I decided to quit all these games abrubtly in the summer of 2022 due to an incident and stopped playing altogether for a few months. Since then, a handful of trips to Tri-County have been the most rhythm game action I've had. But now as 2026 kicks off, I think it's time to try to get back up and running. Or stepping, I suppose.

I'm not sure how much I'll really want to play during the work week, but I want to try to find time. My StepMania setup these days looks like my iMac with a keyboard, or my laptop for FlashFlashRevolution. As for DanceDanceRevolution, I have a PS2 now that I didn't have back then, so I'm looking to purchase a softpad to play along with the few DDR home versions I own. Maybe someday I'll invest in an L-TEK or something like that. I have to familiarize myself again with the current state of purchasing pads or building your own. I also have a proper beatmania IIDX UKOC I can use on my PS2. Oh and my Guitar Hero Xplorer is always around.