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James Ko leaves Andamiro USA to form “Pipeline Games Inc” February 14, 2010

Posted by Kyle Ward in : General, ITG, News, Pump It Up Pro , add a comment
My condolences to Mr. James Ko and Andamiro USA -  Recently, Ko announced that he was leaving Andamiro USA to focus on his new coin-op amusement company, ” Pipeline Games INC”
I wish you the best with your new venture Mr. Ko!  -  Thank you for the support that you gave to the In The Groove series in 2005 and Pump it Up Pro 1 in 2007.
sept-16th-2005-itg@AMOA  Kyle Ward & James Ko

source: ARCADE Heros

Vote For Your Favorite Songs! May 22, 2009

Posted by Kyle Ward in : General, ITG, Pump It Up Pro , 20comments
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I’d like everyone to participate in an exciting new study!  READY?!
Ok, so it’s really just a poll…   :-)

Please participate and tell your friends to cast their votes!  You can choose up to 10 songs from each list.  Vote directly and supply additional comments (if you desire to do so).  Maybe you liked the step(s) concept/style with the music.  If you don’t specify, it is assumed that you appreciate the song for the music/sound.
Thank You to everyone who supplies their input

HERE: http://www.kyle-ward.com/2009/05/22/vote-for-your-favorite-songs/

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Please select your favorite songs from IN THE GROOVE 1 ::::: (please select up to 10 items out of these choices)

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Please select your favorite songs from IN THE GROOVE 2 ::::: (please select up to 10 items out of these choices)

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Please select your favorite songs from PUMP IT UP PRO ::::::: (please select up to 10 items out of these choices)

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Please select your favorite menu/interface songs ::::::::::::::::: (please select up to 4 items out of these choices)

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New Pump Pro Website October 2, 2008

Posted by Kyle Ward in : News, Pump It Up Pro , 3comments
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We’ve recently upgraded Pump It Up Pro’s website.  We hope this new interface will help improve the support system for owners who have purchased a Pump Pro Machine. You can see it live HERE

In addition to this site, we are also in the process of setting up a player “wiki” so that players can enter information about Pump Pro and help other community members with information about PIU Pro.

PIU Pro 2008 Las Vegas Tournament Aftermath September 24, 2008

Posted by Kyle Ward in : Pump It Up Pro , 8comments
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The first annual PIU Pro tournament was held in Las Vegas on September 13 at the Las Vegas Marriot.

The tournament followed the AMOA trade show and was ran in our new “Iron Man” format.  The tournament tested skills in all aspects of Pump Pro game play. The competition was fierce and a big congratulation goes out to all of the competitors. The final results were as follows:


1. JBoy - 465pts
2. starfalcon176 / Sean - 410pts
3. Kilroy / Zachary - 376pts
4. Ruzy / Kyle - 325pts
5. s34n / Sean - 289pts
6. Xero / Michael - 259pts
7. Jeremy - 247pts
8. ddrm / Matt - 238pts
9. Jeremy Ca$h - 218pts
10. Alex - 205pts
11. JOKR / Aleta - 188pts
12. Danny - 177pts
13. Boo / Kristina - 157pts
14. VivaR32skylines / Gordon - 146pts
15. Stabbie - 111pts

Pump Pro Tournament winners
Las Vegas Group Photo

Here is some lovely video of “warmup” captured by s43n.  Enjoy!  :-)

Thank you to everyone who attended!

Pump Pro @ ASI 2008 - Las Vegas, NV March 20, 2008

Posted by Kyle Ward in : Events, General, News, Pump It Up Pro , 2comments
March 27, 2008toMarch 29, 2008

 

ASI Show

Pump It Up Pro @ ASI 2008 - Las Vegas, NV

Chris Foy and I will be present at the 2008 Amusement Showcase International. This years show will be presented in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Central Hall S1. The show dates are March 27th - March 29th 2008.

If you are a local pump player, we welcome you to the show floor. Please come by and see us at the Andamiro USA Booth. As usual, we’ll be helping display Pump It Up Pro and Pump It Up NX2. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

(UPDATE 3-24-08)- I’ve been notified that this will be the first year that the ASI show will open up it’s doors to Las Vegas locals on Saturday. YES, you can get in for free on Saturday!

If you are near the Las Vegas area, stop on by and check out the latest amusement(s) from the show.

ATEI 2008 - Aftermath February 1, 2008

Posted by Kyle Ward in : General, News, Pump It Up Pro , 1 comment so far

I’m pleased to say that the ATEI 2008 show went very well this year. Thanks goes out to all the UK players and locals I met. London is incredible place!

Here are some highlights & pictures from the trip:

Pump It Up PRO - ATEI 2008
Players + Crowd building at ATEI 2008 - I was told this was the largest crowd for any dancing game they’ve ever seen)

London Traffic
What’s wrong with this picture? I was almost killed by the London traffic. Be sure to look LEFT when crossing the road in the UK :-)

100% at the start of the day!
It’s never bad to start off the show day with a 100%!

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The “Pump It Up Family” together in sequence!

DDR UK People
DDRUK Staff. You guys rock, thanks for coming by! 

I’ve posted more pictures via my myspace page. If you’d like to see more of my pictures from the ATEI 08 show, but sure to CHECK IT OUT HERE.

I look forward to helping bring Pump It Up Pro to the UK through United Distribution Corp. UDC remains strong and fully committed to helping push Pump Pro support throughout the UK with Andamiro. Thanks goes out to the players of the UK, thank you for coming to ATEI and meeting us! :-)

~K

Pump it up Pro @ ATEI 2008 Expo January 15, 2008

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I’m happy to announce that Pump It Up Pro will be present at this years ATEI Expo show in London, UK. I will be attending the show, giving demos, and talking to local players.

I look forward to meeting all of the UK Pump players and helping bring PIU Pro to the UK!

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22-24 January 2008

Tuesday
10.00 - 18.00
Wednesday
10.00 - 18.00
Thursday
10.00 - 16.00

EARLS COURT 1
LONDON

Machine Dance Communities? December 18, 2007

Posted by Kyle Ward in : General, ITG, News, Pump It Up Pro , 35comments

Dance Dance RevolutionPump It UpIn The Groove

StepmaniaFlash Flash RevolutionDWI + Delight Deligh Reduplication

After posting a comment on a forum, I thought I might bring up a much larger issue among the machine dance community.

I encourage everyone, whether you are active in 4 panel, 5 panel, Roxor, Konami or Andamiro dance game titles: Please look this over and consider giving your thoughts or opinions? Try do so without any bias towards what you do appreciate

“Communities” seem to be very different from the machine dance communities 5-8 years ago. We now live in a time where people feel the need to over analyze materials and/or recreate with possible hurtful intentions. Maybe ego related? Why now when this wasn’t as much the case then?
For example - When something new is known or released (youtube) you immediately are presented with opinions whether you want them or not. While this isn’t wrong, it seems to start off negative quickly. Much more then it use to in the past years.

While this is common today, it’s just hard to see these differences effect everyone today. The communities seemed to be different in good ways many years ago. What creates this need for such verbal emotion today?

Has it become harder for somebody to accept something for what it is rather then how they think it should be? Does a person feel the need to makes others agree with their opinions more now than previously? Maybe the internet has created this “safe-bubble” for people to be more vocal then before?

Why are people often different in person from the opinions they post about on forums?

As the future progresses for”Machine Dance” videogame titles, everyones involvement in their community key and very important. Please take just a moment to comment on your memories and/or involvement that brought you to enjoy these games and this concept for what they are. As a community, let us all come together share the potential future together!

What do you want to see change? What did you like that attracted you originally? Where do you hope that these games can take us all in the future?
Thanks!

~K

(your comments can help make a difference)

Kyle Ward Youtube’n It Up! December 10, 2007

Posted by Kyle Ward in : General, Pump It Up Pro, Video , 9comments

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Ladies and gentleman, it’s now time for me to officially use that obligatory “You Tube” account I signed up for ages ago. Why haven’t I done this sooner? Who knows… :-)

Chris Foy and I decided to record some righteous, and totally bodacious videos over at Big Al’s this weekend. We captured a few of our Pump It Up Pro games, and decided to waste some of youtube’s bandwidth with them! Additionally, We ran into some other local Pump Pro players. The players have really started to expand in the Vancouver/Portland area. Check out some of the crowd shots from Big Al’s that night.

Pump Pro - Big Al’s #1Pump Pro - Big Al’s #2

Pump It Up PRO - Journey Progressive Course 99.07% (S)



Check out more videos from our play session HERE

Scandia Fun Center - Sacremento, CA October 3, 2007

Posted by Kyle Ward in : News, Pump It Up Pro , 5comments

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I will be stopping by the Scandia Fun Center in Sacramento CA on Friday October 5th, at 7:00pm. I’ll be checking on the local PIUPRO & enjoying some intense gamage! (yes, that’s a word I just invented) If you frequent the area, be sure to stop on by and say hello! I look forward to meeting the local players and finding out what they’d like to see in a future Pump It Up Pro release.
Hello NorCal! :-)

K