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Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) continues to be a popular arcade and video game. Among its avid fans is 34-year-old Hungarian Szabolcs Csépe of Budapest.

Csepe not only played DDR for fun and physical fitness. In October last year, he danced for six straight days to break the longest music dance game played — 138 hours set by American Carrie Swidecki in 2015 — and recently received the certification from the Guinness World Record for the feat.

In the Japanese video game first released in 1998, players stand on a dance platform or mat and step on colored arrows with their feet to score points in time with visual cues and the music from a catalog of songs, according to the BBC.

After six months of physical training and dieting, Csepe danced to over 3,000 songs and burned more than 22,000 calories, with only one or two hours of sleep, from 23 to 29 October 2024, the BBC reported.

While Csepe won two GWR titles for breaking a world record — longest video game marathon and longest video game marathon on a rhythm game for 144 hours — California woman recently won millions of dollars for breaking something else.

After a five-week jury trial, Justine Gurrola won her damage suit against the city government of Whittier in Los Angeles County and was awarded a settlement of $7.5 million by the Superior Court of California on 14 October, People magazine and the Whittier Daily News reported.

In February 2018, Gurrola was walking in Whittier when she tripped on the uneven sidewalk and fell forward, breaking her wrist, elbow, and nose; injured her knees, neck and back; and suffering “a mild traumatic brain injury,” according to People, citing statements by her attorney, Nick Rowley, and the legal complaint.

The accident was blamed on the raised sidewalk caused by tree roots that the city ignored for years and failed to inspect, People quoted the lawyer as saying.