Joel took the reins on covering a lot of the panels at Otakon, but there was one that I demanded to cover:  “Rhythm games you Haven’t Played“.  Being an avid (read: obsessive) rhythm game fan, I was interested in seeing if the panelists could come up with any games I hadn’t already managed to play through, or at the very least, avoid talking about Dance Dance Revolution for an hour.

Braving the back side of the Baltimore Convention Center (or as I started calling it as the weekend went on, the Ass-End of Otakon) was often an arduous task, but I, your intrepid rhythm game addict, wouldn’t miss this panel for the world.  The panel was packed to the gills with over-excited, and often unbathed participants, but all was forgotten once our panelists took the floor.  I don’t know if it was the type of game we were covering, or the enthusiasm of the hosts, but this was one of the highest-energy panels I’d ever been to.

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