gyms + arcade technology

[montoya 0]

wouldn't mind getting this for Christmas!

 

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/25/BUGVRDRETD1.DTL

[me jane 0]

I could do with one too!

 

There are a few things like that just starting to come out. Reckon it will be a few years before they get any good though. Here is one.

 

 

and another

 

I tried this once in a games arcade a few years back. You ride through a bike on the sky avoiding things & catching other things and if you slow down your pedalling you lose altitude. Really good fun actually and quite a good workout (well it could be if you didn't have to keep feeding it coins). Much better than looking at the wall while exercising.

 

Might be a way of encouraging computer game addicted kids to do some exercise?

[klingon 10]

That looks like it might be fun that.

[maoriboy 0]

the treadmills at my local Konami Sports have a screen with a running man game on screen. HEs jogging up a track and you control him/her via touch pads on the arm rails to make him go left or right. Quite fun, and yeah better than looking at a blank wall. But then again most of the machines face the windows and look down from the 5th floor.

[Ocean11 0]

That Prop Cycle game is a blast. I haven't seen it around lately though. There's a skiing one too which is OK but not as difficult.

[Dims 0]

Yeah prop cycle was cool. Did anyone play that huge surfing game where you stand up on a surfboard. Massive screen, wicked graphics, crouching down getting barrelled of ya nanna. No so good for fitness though

 

Check it out,

 

 

Sega soul surfer

[klingon 10]

Brilliant. I'll have to take a trip down somewhere and hunt these out.