Wii Fit
We as a society are looked at as somewhat out of shape and overweight. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE50863H20090109
People do not have the time or the energy to actually drive to the gym and work out. Well how about walking to your video game system and working out? Wii Fit is a game that can help you lose weight while still having fun. Now not all of the games in Wii Fit will cause you to lose weight but the game does have workout programs on it. http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4684168_wii-fit-work.html. This article explains how Wii Fit works and how you can lose weight while playing a video game! Wii Fit has multiple games that include exercise including training workouts in yoga, balance based workouts, aerobic exercises and muscular training workouts. You can do things likejogging or push ups on the balance board which are tracked by the game.
I wonder if you already have to be in decent shape to be able to performe these exercising tasks in the game? Can people who are not very athletic and overweight play this? People are always looking for that quci fix, is this that kind of game?
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Jessie Krehlik on Wii Fit: A few years ago, Sony released
Jeremy Barrick on Wii Fit: That remind me of the game Fat
That remind me of the game Fatworld we studied. I went off on it because I thought that it was taking a stab at our culture. That we eat to much and are overweight. We need a system that we are able to stay at home with and workout at our own convienences. But we both know what happens with that. It gets tiring and too much. The system and game get shoved in a corner and not touched for another year's resolution.
A few years ago, Sony released some games that could be played with the EyeToy Webcam application. If memory serves me correctly, some of them were exercise related, which means they were a precursor for WiiFit. I've never played WiiFit but I've heard a lot of great things about it. The Wii was made specifically to get kids off the couch and moving while playing video games. WiiFit just promotes even more activity.
Good point, Keith and Jeremy. The game may have great potential, but does it really make a difference to someone who isn't already motivated to live a healthy lifestyle?
Jessie, there's a version of one of those camera-based games in the SportsWorks museum at the Carnegie Science Center. When I was there, there were always a crowd of kids lined up to play. Would they be so intersted in it if it were in their own home every day?