Groove Master
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Groove Master is a dancing game played on a Microsoft Windows computer by Kraft. It can only use a promotionial dance pad made by a small company named Archway.
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[edit] Game play
Gameplay is similar to Dance Dance Revolution. Arrows (up, down, left and right) scroll sideways from right to left. The player must step on the corresponding arrow when it reaches the left side. Also available is a Pump It Up style, where the four noncardinal directions are used (up-left, up-right, down-left, and down-right). Unlike PIU, however, the center button is not used and in fact there is no central button on the dance mat. Instead of arrows scrolling, during the PIU style of play, the player may choose to use symbols (star, square, triangle or circle) instead.
[edit] Kraft Game Pad
The game pad is a USB-only pad with eight "panels:" up, down, left and right arrows, along with a square in the up-left position, a star in the up-right position, a triangle in the bottom-left position, and a circle in the bottom-right position. This pad is unable to do "jumps" (two arrows occurring at the same time, causing the player to jump up and hit both with each foot) as it has what is known as the "joystick axes problem." This is where the pad is recognized as a joystick, and has an x and y axis as opposed to four buttons. On these pads, just like a joystick, two opposite directions cannot be hit at once.
