No town is complete without a local video game arcade. Yesterday I discovered the one in Guanajuato. Not a very popular place (not surprising in a town with history, culture, music & fine art at every corner). The only revenue generator was the extremely interactive performance-based game (coupled with a light show and latin music) called PUMP IT UP!

Now, if anyone asks, this is NOT the same as Dance Dance Revolution (although it can be easily mistaken for it). Obvious to the natural eye (LOL), unlike DDR, the arrows on the dance pad of this game are positioned on the corner diagonals. A BIG difference.

The pad is rarely vacant. One guy played a perfect score during the advanced (VERY fast) mode of the song "Fuego!" which (to my deep surprise) had a montage of the World Trade Center fires as its backdrop to the scrolling arrows! No one else, but me, thought this juxtaposition to be disorienting. Had this game been house in the United States, I'm almost certain it would have been inappropriate. Dancing to the Twin Towers burning down? Does anyone else find this disturbing?