Why Dance with a Hero When You Can Dance with a Zero
This is a sponsored post brought to you by Coca-Cola Zero and IZEA. The opinions are my own.
If you’ve ever seen the Coke Zero commercials on TV, then you’ll no doubt know about the two main characters, the tongue and the eyeball. The two are always at odds with each other, with the tongue insisting that the Coke Zero its tasting was real Coke. The eyeball, being able to see, knows that the tongue is really drinking Coke Zero. There’s also a brain in one of the commercials but he’s kind of secondary. Who needs a brain anyway?
Unable to see eye to eye (since the tongue has no eye), the tongue and the eyeball decided to settle things once and for all in the same way that all problems of the world should be settled. With a dance off!
Do You Have The Moves?
Coca-Cola Zero Dance Hero is an online game created by iCoke.ca to help promote Coke Zero, a drink that taste just like regular Coke but with zero calories. The object of the game is out dance your opponent by racking up more points.
Game play is pretty simple but does require a level of skill and practice to get a good score. Below is a video of my first attempt at the game. My score was pretty low and I’m sure many of you will be able to beat it.
I got better on the fourth try and registered a high score of 48,221. Can you beat that?
I played the tongue on all the games because I felt it had much better dance moves than the eyeball. However, the eyeball’s moon walk was pretty good! My scores were low in the first few tries because I was being distracted by a tongue and eyeball dancing on the screen. It made hitting the bull eye harder than it should be. After winning the dance off against the eyeball, I witnessed an awesome finishing move as the tongue threw it down on the eyeball.
Overall, the game is a lot of fun, especially for young people. Sally absolutely loved the game. I need to post a video of her dancing to it.
Dance with a Zero and Win Prizes!
To help promote their new game, Coca-Cola sent me a bunch of branded stuff to give away. Everyone who attended last Saturday’s Dot Com Pho got free Coke stuff. Now, you can win some Coke prizes just by playing the game.
Head over to Coke Zero Dance Hero and play the game. Take a screen shot of your score and post it on your blog or an image sharing site. Make a comment on this post with the link to your score and you’re entered! You don’t need to get the high score to win. We just want you to play the game.
You can earn an additional entry by making a blog post about the contest and linking back to this post. You can earn a third entry by sending the following tweet to your Twitter followers.
@JohnChowDotCom I scored [insert score] with the #Coke Zero Dance Hero game. Can you beat me? http://urlbrief.com/e30708
You are playing for a Coca-Cola mini cooler, Coca-Cola boxers and Coca-Cola jammies. Winners will be draw live at this Saturday’s Dot Com Pho. Good luck!
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The gameplay looks nearly identical to Elite Beat Agents and Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan on the DS.
I’ve personally never heard of this game, but I will agree that the graphics definitely look unique – it’s not like its just an exact replication of the TV commercial characters – almost a less detailed version
It actually kinda bugs me to be honest lol I wish they were rendered clearer!!
Haha could not agree with you more Taris. Why don’t they make it some what unique. Seen such stuff on many adverts.
Just call it Elite Beat Agents you geek!
Elite Beat Agents was the American game with American songs, but the original — Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan — is a different game with Japanese songs and characters.
killed hehehe
Guess you didn’t know about the Japanese version?!
I am sipping coke and playing …
Hah!! Sweet!! This seems like the most entertaining contest ever!! Definitely entering!! Thanks John!! and congrats on the big time sponsor!!
The tongues a bit scary at first, but turns out to be pretty cool.
Lots of moves to learn from.
Fricken awesome fridge.
It would be cool just to take it outside with the friends or at the beach….
Enter the competition – it could be yours
I agree, but it can only hold 6 cokes?
I have friends who drink more than that in a hour. And yes, I know, they’re disturbed.
here is my top score: fun game! http://antnz.com/misc/coke-game.png
Theres a competition, reply to John via Twitter to be entered
Must Play This Game. For some reason.
You should do a post about how you got the sponsorship
What’s a message center, John?
Here is my first round score – http://www.feedingthecrave.com/is-your-kung-fu-strong-enough/ also blogged about it… ok now back to the game!
Theres a competiton, you should enter – by telling John your score via Twitter.
Never heard of this game, but I will agree that the graphics definitely look unique
that’s what we call eye candy and let me say that this is going to threaten by sleeping patterns
I never heard of this game before
it look interesting game though i never palyed it
You should have a go at playing it.
The game is really addictive.
I’m still deciding if I want to play this game. Nothing against you, John–I would love to win the Coke fridge! It’s the tongue. It’s disturbing.
Yeah it’s a little creepy… somehow the eyeball was fine, maybe it’s the Mike Wozowski factor from Monsters Inc
lol… cool game.
i am in.. let me make some good score.
“You can earn a third entry by sending the following tweet to your Twitter followers.”
FYI…If you send a tweet that starts with an “@” 99% of your followers will never see it.
is the statement researched ?
Do you use Twitter? It’s pretty obvious. Most people turn off seeing @Replies in their stream unless they’re directed at them. So if you start a tweet with @JohnChowDotCom almost nobody (besides John) will see it unless they happening to be looking at directly at your profile page. It won’t show up in the streams of your followers.
Gonna lay off the game, but I gotta say it don’t taste nothin’ like real coke.
It was fun, the tongue was a little creepy though hahaha
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18204422@N00/3150965270/
Fun game!
http://twitpic.com/xx61
nice
wow…the music is pretty cool tho and the beat makes you wanna get up and do something yourself.
I Wish there was multi-player options…. I would take you down John
I like the Tongue more than the Eye,…
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n65/izabrani/cdokezero.jpg
hehe..that funny!
Wow. That tongue is something else. Not sure how I feel about a dancing tongue. So many things could be said, but I digress. I have to say though that it looks like fun!
I was the eyeball, the tongue is creepy:
http://www.juliesjournal.com/art/blogart/coke_zero.jpg
Okey the tongue is a bit gross looking LOL
http://flickr.com/photos/pamelaad/3152712094/
The tongue is looking so enticing in the gastranomical sence.
My score is so lousy it’s embarrassing to even post it! I took a screenshot and wrote a post though:
http://boatinginbeautifulbritishcolumbia.com/2008/12/31/john-chow-coke-zero-dance-hero/
The cooler is really cute, but I want to see those ‘jammies’!
So is are going to be winner(s) or just a winner? Your statements are kind of unclear because you state all the prizes together and not with the word “or”.
-Mike
This is just GROSS!!! That tongue scares me. LOL.
Played as the tongue. The game was pretty neat!
http://www.bestimagehosting.com/showfile.php?id=33187
Pretty cool game. Here is my entry:
http://enkayblog.com/dancehero.jpg
I loved the game and made a score of 160k something… Sorry couldn’t take a screenshot since I was going somewhere and was already late.. But anyways.. I’ll play the game again and beat my yesterdays score!
Cheers!
Oh my gosh! Reminds me of my clubbing days in San Jose…hey John, are you familiar with the old Pollyesther’s, the Usual, Club Wild, Toonz, etc., in downtown?
I used to work in Sunnyvale for Loudcloud, the Mark Andreessen startup, back in 2000 and was regularly seen at those places…wow, now I’m 30 and haven’t been to a club in who knows how long!
At any age people should visit the clubs to feel oneself young and positive.
Hi John! Count me in! Here’s mine: http://i43.tinypic.com/34eqg08.png
and oh, I blogged it here! http://www.supladita.net/2009/01/05/coke-zero-dance-hero
an twitted it here: twitter.com/Maldita/status/1096887524
I really got hooked with this game! This is all your fault! Hahahahah! Just kidding.. Happy New Year to you! God bless! ^^
Wow.. collaboration with Coke? I wonder how much they pay for this post..