MTV's VMAs Love DDR
Konami's spaz attack-inducing dancing game nabs a Video Music Awards nomination.
Published: July 26, 2005
Awards shows are just stupid popularity contests, right? And you didn't get picked as prom queen for your senior prom, right? And video games rot your brain and make you kill people, right? Okay, so one of those statements is true (but which one?!?!?!!?!), but the whole "popularity contest" thing is at least tempered a bit by the notion that you can vote for the winners on some of them.
Take MTV's Video Music Awards, for instance. Celebrating all things musically videotastic (y'know, the stuff they only show for 15 minutes on MTV these days), the show normally is the home to big-name bands scooping up a handful of awards with the only mention of games somewhere in the after-party where some drunk music star waxes poetic about how awesome Madden or GTA (yes, we're just jealous that we can't go).
This year, however, video games have pushed into the mainstream enough for MTV to deem it worthy to start cashing in on. Enter the Best Video Game Soundtrack category. In it are games like Tony Hawk and Madden, but there's also a little something called Dance Dance Revolution on the ballot. Here's your chance to finally root for the supernerd dancing his heart out on that dance floor all by himself (figuratively, of course).
Click here to rock the vote, DDR-style, but hurry, there are only... OH GOD, ONLY 32 DAYS LEFT!!! Better start clicking.
Take MTV's Video Music Awards, for instance. Celebrating all things musically videotastic (y'know, the stuff they only show for 15 minutes on MTV these days), the show normally is the home to big-name bands scooping up a handful of awards with the only mention of games somewhere in the after-party where some drunk music star waxes poetic about how awesome Madden or GTA (yes, we're just jealous that we can't go).
This year, however, video games have pushed into the mainstream enough for MTV to deem it worthy to start cashing in on. Enter the Best Video Game Soundtrack category. In it are games like Tony Hawk and Madden, but there's also a little something called Dance Dance Revolution on the ballot. Here's your chance to finally root for the supernerd dancing his heart out on that dance floor all by himself (figuratively, of course).
Click here to rock the vote, DDR-style, but hurry, there are only... OH GOD, ONLY 32 DAYS LEFT!!! Better start clicking.