Pop Lockin

January 21, 2005 8:30 AM

Pop Lockin is a great way to waste some time today. And maybe learn a new step or two to show the little Mrs. this weekend [Flash required]...
posted by Miyagi (11 comments total)

ha, pretty fun; they should offer a dance dance revolution pad for your arrow pad.

almost hits 0
perfect hits 25
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posted by Peter H at 8:42 AM on January 21, 2005

Great link.

The Puppetmastaz' first album included a nice little game where you used the arrow keys to make one of their members rap along with six or seven tracks. It was really entertaining. The actual album, however, was not.

PUPPETS ? QUALITY.
Um, carry on.
posted by dougunderscorenelso at 9:07 AM on January 21, 2005

Here's the guy I consider to be the best human alive at this: Elsewhere. You should watch this video first- he's "David from Santa Anna" (3rd dancer). Every time I watch this guy my jaw drops.
posted by Four Flavors at 9:10 AM on January 21, 2005

Cute idea, poorly executed. The arrow timings are random and have nothing to do with the soundtrack. None to DDR cloners: you have to time the arrows to the music. That's why it's called a rhythm game.
posted by Nelson at 9:18 AM on January 21, 2005

[Flash required]...

Grandmaster Flash?
posted by LionIndex at 9:20 AM on January 21, 2005

ha, pretty fun; they should offer a dance dance revolution pad for your arrow pad.


My daughter has a DDR game for computer using arrow keys, and has been playing in all her spare computer time this week.
posted by konolia at 9:22 AM on January 21, 2005

This is probably old hat to most of you, but Flash Flash Revolution is an excellent Flash-based DDR clone.
posted by Nelson at 9:35 AM on January 21, 2005

Four Flavors: OMG that is just insane. The most amazing part is where he unrols his sleave and somehow drops his frame rate. I didn't even know that was humanly possible!
posted by delmoi at 9:43 AM on January 21, 2005

There was this dude back in the early 80's by the name of Crazy Legs. He was out of the Bronx. He was doing this stuff when no one thought it was particularly cool and doing it much better.
posted by j.p. Hung at 10:29 AM on January 21, 2005

konolia - Are you talking about stepmania ?
And Peter H, they don't have pads that can connect directly to your computer, but they do have a USB converter so you can play with the pads rather than the arrow keys.
/DDR geek.
posted by krazykity16 at 11:46 AM on January 21, 2005

There was this dude back in the early 80's by the name of Crazy Legs. He was out of the Bronx. He was doing this stuff when no one thought it was particularly cool and doing it much better.

Here is Crazy Legs and the whole RockSteady Crew. Technically tho, Crazy Legs was a b-boy, not a pop-locker. Mr. Wiggles is one of my personal faves if you are interested in poppin' as a style of dance.
posted by mikeinclifton at 1:58 PM on January 21, 2005