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''[[In The Groove]]'' (or ITG, as it's also known) is a video game unlike other video games.
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
In case you haven't noticed, most of the lead is right from the [[Dance Dance Revolution]] page. This is because the two games are ''just that similar'', with ITG essentially being an American-made DDR. However, this doesn't mean the series didn't innovate or have some neat features, like Mines (don't step on them!), charts containing sections that require hitting or holding more than 2 panels at once (intended for use with your hands), and Rolls (Freeze Arrows you have to keep hitting). The game also popularized the concept of "crazy-hard" songs to the 4-panel scene, with the normal difficulty scale ranging from 1-12 "block" (compared to DDR's 1-10 at the time), with an additional 13th level for the hardest of the hard. And just look at [http://kyle-ward.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/itg2cabinet.jpg the cabinet]!
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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.
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* [[Announcer Chatter]]: In comparison to DDR, averted. No announcer at all.
* [[Button Mashing]]: Rolls.
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*** When these expert-only custom packs are hacked into a arcade cabinet that charges people money to play, and a new player still at beginner level ends up picking the song with only an expert chart, resulting in instant [[Game Over]], wasting an entire credit.
** Oh yeah, hello Double Expert?
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Rolls appear to be one at first, as you don't have to roll to hit one of these. But then you realize it's like a
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: "ROUND FAILED...[skull]" in ITG 1, "ROUND FAILED^2" in ITG 2. Both of those come from failing [[That One Boss|the hardest song from each game]].
* [[Rank Inflation]]: Ranging from F to S+ all the way to Quad Stars)
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