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Instead of a controller where you sit on your ass and mash buttons, in ''ITG'' you stand on a panel with four arrows and follow the arrow that show up on the screen, by stepping on the matching arrows. Mind-numbingly easy on the lower levels, but insanely hard in the later ones. Late-teens seem to catch on better than adults for some reason, and a ''very'' common sight in arcades is 30-somethings being put to shame by dexterous seventeen-year-olds.

There's a lot going on graphically as well. The arrows here are [[Recycled in Space|IN 3D]] and are coloured similarly to DDR's "solo" arrows (on beat arrows are red, off-beat are blue, 16ths are green\yellow, etc), but with more solid colour. The default "hallway" perspective makes the arrows come closer to you (IN 3D) as they approach the step zone, though this can be changed to the more conventional "overhead" perspective. If one chooses to turn some mods on (or is playing certain courses), the arrows will weave, spin, and bounce all over the place and yet still somehow be possible to read.

 

 

The game was developed by Roxor Games (and ITG2 was co-published with Andamiro), however due to a lawsuit [[Konami]] now owns the rights to the game. Most of the original team went on to form a new team to create a [[Spiritual Successor]] as a ''[[Pump It Up]]'' spinoff.

* [[Tournament Play]]: Despite the game's cancellation, there are still tournaments held almost weekly by the fanbase.

* [[Up to Eleven]] / [[Serial Escalation]]: How many steps can be crammed into a chart? How fast can people move their feet? Just how many gimmicks can be thrown at people? DDR Extreme, the immediate spiritual predecessor to ITG had a difficulty scale that went to 10 and those charts already are pretty difficult to veteran players and [[Nintendo Hard]] to others. ITG's very similar rating scale goes up to ''13''. Custom charts as high as '''''19''''' on singles and '''''15''''' on doubles have been passed. (Note this difference between singles and double)

{{quote|'''Kyzentun''': I don't know if there's a trope for that kind of elitism.}}

* [[Vaporware]]: ITG 3 was shelved after the Konami lawsuit.

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