Since the rise of the games industry, there has been an obvious correlation with this and the fall of exercise, with this there have been a fair few attempts from industries to combat this. One of the most well known to date is the Nintendo Wii, gaming system; one of the first of which to involve the use of the player having to move to play the game. Admittedly there’s only a focused amount of games that require the player to actually exercise, most popular being Nintendo’s own games, the Wii sports series and the Wii fit game. Predominantly the Wii fit is one of the best games for exercise, including a variety of exercises for different abilities ie. Yoga, Balancing, aerobics etc.
Wii sports, do use the same concept, however the focus is family gaming; also looking into promoting more connectivity between players.
An earlier form of exercise in games is the dance mat, named ‘Dance Dance revolution’ (Dancing stage in Europe and DDR for short.) by Konami. These are a series of games available for the Sony playstation 1 and 2, and also for arcades; the DDR games were released in the late nineties and were extremely popular. The difficulty had a wide range so anyone could play; being a fan of DDR I find it is a very fun form of exercise and good for coordination and rhythm. Also the series are, like the Wii fit game are great for parties and groups. In fact there is a whole culture revolving around the dance mat.
The attempt to remedy the problem the gaming industry seems to have caused, is frankly very commendable; but unfortunately I can safely say these kinds of games wouldn’t entirely appeal to the more hardcore gamer, at least on a regular basis. It doesn’t have the depth usual games have
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