Dancing To A Different Drummer

In Japan, youngsters are taking to the dance floor - but not with partners. They're stepping up to computerized dance images.

CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen reports that the Japanese have found an alternative to the violent video games that keep youngsters entranced and have parents worried about gratuitous violence.

It's a dance-dance revolution, with Saturday night fever packing them in every night of the week.

When you step up to the computer, arrows scroll up the screen. Dancers must match them to the pads on the floor.

Chieko and Kosei are the Fred and Ginger of the dance-dance revolution. She's toe-tapped on the machine more than one hundred times. He has used it more than 400 times.

"It's a great way to compete with my friends," says Kosei.

All this may soon be on its way to the United States. American kids may soon be lining up for the kind of workout you couldn't pay them to endure in gym class.

And it seems that those old-fashioned enough to prefer dancing with a live partner of the opposite sex may just be out of step with today's Japan.

Reported By Barry Petersen