Dance Dance Revolution

More and more and more shirts. This one is thanks to Moke again but I have been genuinely shocked at how many of these things I own. I haven't worn the same thing in like six or seven months.
This must be a really old shirt, because Dance Dance Revolution has not been popular for quite some time now. When it was at its peak DDR was just popular as Guitar Hero or Rockband -but you see what happened to them-. =/ The big question here is how this shirt was distributed, it could have been one of three origins: it may have been a promo shirt that the vendor was handing out to stores, it might have been a preorder bonus for a new title that just went unclaimed or maybe even an advertising tool that was given to employees to wear so they could promote the game in-store. I was probably already told when I got the shirt but I forgot. =P
I'm not gonna go and say that I need another white shirt. But on the flip side I played a lot of Dance Dance Revolution and don't have anything to show for it. The design is very simplistic -read:cheap- but it's printed well so at least it will last. So many of these shirts have been large and extra-large and I seriously don't even know what a good fitting shirt is supposed to look like anymore.
Right on the front is the standard "Dance Dance Revolution" not Extreme, not 1st-15th mix not Ultramix just vanilla DDR. You would expect any DDR design to be really colorful and dynamic and musical or bright at the least. Come on, they just used grey and black, how lame! The back says "Music in every direction". The font matches with their usual aesthetic but the color is sooooooo boring. Above the quote it has four arrows in the "cardinal directions" reminiscent of a DDR dancing stage. It pisses me off really bad though because the arrows in the game are very distinct and are insanely easy to put on a shirt but they decided to go with some random clipart, great.
Okay, this design is tame but there are a lot of people from my generation who were raised on DDR. If you got into active video games with the Wii or the Kinect then imagine that like eight years ago. Casuals and even girls were showing interest in the PlayStation -One- because of the DDR phenomenon. My point being that there is a large "market" for this shirt. I'd really like to inspire some nostalgia.

Dance Dance Revolution was a hit, a smash success, something that took the gaming world by force. But then it died. I wonder if the light gun was the same thing back in the day or what will be the next gimmick, I mean even Guitar Hero and Rockband are dying, let's not even mention DJ Hero. Really, I don't see this shirt going anywhere past this blog post. And here I thought Dance Dance Revolution would last forever.