Dance Dance Revolution can be played on multiple platforms, and knowledge of how to operate these supports technological literacy. Suellen Adams says in Why Video Games Anyway? that “…games support other skills and literacies, such as pattern recognition, physical coordination, multitasking, decision making on the fly, and other cognitive skills that are increasingly valuable in our fast-paced and multilayered society.” Dance Dance Revolution adopts all of these strategies.
The upward arrows in the game promote the pattern recognition of visual literacy, necessitating the player to use his or her body to solve the dance-puzzle and beat a specific song. The better a player connects the visual arrows on the screen to the moves his or her body makes, the easier it is to excel within the game. Thus, this visual literacy leads to physical coordination.
Dance Dance Revolution is an extremely fast-paced game. The visual and physical decisions needed to dominate the game, along with the ability to navigate its technology, can lead to better agility and coordination within real-life.
