Is Para Para Paradise Dead?

Collector · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Canada

I'm just wondering. Ever since I first para'd in Toronto, I love the game. A lot. So, if it is dead, it'd explain why there's only 1 home version on ps2. Someone give me the verdict straight up

DarkCSE · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 12:43 am Post subject:

R.I.P. PPP.....

Collector · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Canada

ver314 · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Albuquerque Nm

Maybe it just doesn't have a big enough fan base.

I like para para. but i guess it's over for PPP.
_________________

TOTALdude · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Location: East Yorkshire

PPP's gone really, except it still has it's fans every here and there. But there are still a lot of fans of the actual para para dancing now, go to www.paraparastage.com and you'll see. Now people look at it as less a game and something more than that, kinda like the Japanese. But it is rumoured Avex is going to try and bring Para Para back in Japan, with a new generation PPA. It was on a note in their latest SEB so you never know what might happen, but what we have now is still good, so don't worry...
_________________

DDR + PPP player

0mni · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:55 pm Post subject:

If People Still play it, it's not dead. Well, that's how I Look at it anyway.
_________________

The sun goes up and the sun goes down
i drag myself into the town
all i do i want to do with you

St. Nick · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Marietta, GA

Konami canned PPP a while ago. Para Para itself is still around though. You can get VCDs, DVDs, and VHSs of the routines at cdJapan I believe.
Just search for "Para Para Paradise" in Album/movie titles. Funny that the newest one they carry was released July of 2002.
_________________

Every sound produces colors. Every color plays sounds.

Sharpay Evans · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:39 pm Post subject:

Para para,the dance,is still growin strong...but the game is dead....died a while ago...ha ha

~A K A R I~

DF2K.IMF · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 7:00 pm Post subject:

Make a new mix with harder stuff, and im up for PPP....
_________________

fighter965 · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Location: So. Cal.

I don't know how much faster people can flail their arms to songs, I mean Ultra High Heels and Velfarre 2000 at Hard are already too fast for some people to handle. A new mix would be nice but I'm not getting my hopes up.

TOTALdude · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Location: East Yorkshire

it could be VERY easy, but they won't be doing proper para para dancing, kinda like using your feet and hands on DDR...
_________________

DDR + PPP player

Starr78 · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:35 pm Post subject:

Whoa. This pisses me off. I love para. =/ and I just got into it too. wtf.
_________________

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

Collector · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Canada

Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:27 am Post subject:

I actually got in to ParaParaParadise when I first played at Milpitas GolfLand.I've loved it since.Right now ever though they only have a 2nd mix...I still play and am trying to get better.I'm trying to learn the dances for the songs.Right now I've got down Ultra High Heels and most of Velfarre 2000.They're not that hard for me to play as in the speed.Basically the game of ParaPara has died,but never the dance!There will always be die-hard players and dancers that will still do the dances and play the game.
_________________

"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."

| Pics | Play-Asia |

Collector · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Canada

Damn! How crappy... I played 2nd mix in Toronto. Man, It was so addictive. Ah well, like CSE said... "R.I.P. P.P.P."

CStarFlare · Maniac Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

TOTALdude · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Location: East Yorkshire

Actually if it is dead, then you could say the same thing about DDR, but wait, forums on the net are filled up with people that play DDR, so you ever thought to think the same thing might happen for para para?

www.paraparastage.com is the most popular out there but there quite a few as well as the PPP board at DDR: UK (if you live there).

There are Para Para groups and meets all over the place in America, even a few in the UK, and the machines are still scattered around all over the place. I mean come on, compare it to Taiko No Tatsujin, Dance ManiaX, Guitar Freaks or Mambo a Go Go and it's booming...

Plus, you don't have to stop at the arcade machine/game too, the VCDs and SEBs are all out there still getting released, and in Avex's latest SEB they pointed out they where trying for a para para revival in Japan with a whole new PPA. Avex was the reason we found out about Para Para in the first place so if they put their minds to it, para para will become a fad again in Japan (its happened millions of times, the people over there care about para para in general than PPP the game...).
_________________

DDR + PPP player

Collector · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Canada

Screw the video's! It's more fun to play the game. Forme at least.

Turboneko · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2002

The whole point of trying to capitalize on a "dance fad" didnt go the way konami had intended. Sure PPP was fun... but when you can pretty much do every single routine within a week of purchasing it, it gets real OLD real QUICK. PPP failed as a release and therefore Konami canned it to prevent the aspect of future losses. (DDRMAX2 CS anyone?) I mean i used to think "Hell this has SEB in it. It cant POSSIBLY get old". My friend's copy sits on the floor collecting dust.

PPP is indeed dead. There are the dvds which are in no relation to the game. Those will go on so long as there are the Para Para Allstars but as far as the games go.. its done for.
_________________

-LoC-

TOTALdude · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Location: East Yorkshire

if it's dead then why do people still play it? Plus, there's the fact that everybody usually freestyles when playing the game too, which it does encourage. The routines are fun, but I usually do freestling on the game, which is a breath of fress air to be honest. And they didn't can it too quick, what with 4 different versions being released, then a home version.

Plus, a revival is rumoured. As I said before, compare to other arcade games out there and it's doing really well...
_________________

DDR + PPP player