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Wired on CES exergaming
by Gonzalo Frasca January 10, 2005
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Health & Medicine Games
This is defintively not a new topic here at the watercooler, but I think that it is interesting that there were 6 companies at the recent CES focusing on so-called exergaming or exertainment. Here's an article about it from Wired. If you think about it, games have been used for exercising for ages (and viceversa). Quick, what do you prefer: 200 push-ups or playing soccer? The answer is quite obvious, right? I'd say that if Jane Fonda talked thousands of fat ladies to do the monkey in front of their TVs on their living room, I see no reason why this shouldn't work with videogames. Well, I do see a couple of reasons, but overall the idea of game DVDs with sweat stains is definitively a good one.
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