One of the rarest rhythm cabs in existence, Dance Dance Revolution Kids! IMPOSSIBLE FIND

This cabinet is an INCREDIBLE find!!! We happened to get a full clearance inventory list from a chain closing a few Game Centers, and were shocked to see this in the list. There was only one known public cabinet left in the world, at Cat's Eye in Sayama. Sure enough, Cat's Eye was closing. It took enormous effort, but we managed to snag this out of the batch, along with two Toy's March cabs. We only know of one other cab left in the world!

By nature of how we found this, and how much junk was in the list, it's very possible the cab may have faded into obscurity, never to be heard of again. Normally, I'd be in full support of a cabinet like this staying with the Japanese community, but it didn't seem like that opportunity was going to present itself. Really fortunate that we caught it!

I think it was speculated there's around 50-100 of these made, but because it has so few songs and did poorly, they were for the most part demolished. It's questionable if KONAMI has one left in their factory or archive at all. Usually even the really obscure games have their manuals archived on their repository, but this one is not.

The game has something like 12 songs, and practically no replayability, I think even for young kids, for whom this is targeted. It's not something that would be brought out to conventions; maybe to CAX, or be put in a museum. I'm not sure what I'll do with it on that front just yet. The pads are interesting; the wood base appears to have hand-cut channels for the sensors, which are just the same ones used for regular DDR. Overall an interesting construction! The game is dumped and working in MAME as of a year or so ago, which is good, because the hardware isn't known to run anything else.

Hoping to share this with people over here in the US some day!