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Pedal Your Way Through Quake
loteck writes: "Tom's previewed this latest toy that allows health savy gamers to peddle their way through flight simulators, racers and even first person shooters. Someone is providing a plethora of compatible games by which to Quake or Carmageddon yourself to that six-pack that you've always wanted." I wonder if this would burn more calories than the floor-pad from the old Nintendo system.
...for this "simcycle" is here [elonton.com].
What'dya mean there's no BLINK tag!?
The first link in the story is incorrect, Tom's little preview is actually located at http://www4.tomshardware.com/technews/technews-200 11108.html#0053
Arthur C Clarke once wrote a story about a race in Earth-Moon space on space bicycles. (IIRC, it was Clarke) The bicycles were really Wimshurst (sp?) generators powering ion engines to provide thrust, and the course was somewhere in the range of 24 to 48 hours long. Minimal shell to hold in air and heat, minimal supplies, Kremer-caliber athletes, etc.
It was a fun idea, though somehow I can't quite believe it would all hold together. I didn't think ion engines would generate sufficient thrust to make it to cislunar space. Nor would I expect that even a 48-hour spacecraft could be made light enough. I'd expect temperature control to be the biggest problem, between sunlight and shadow, maximum exertion and resting/sleeping.
But with this idea, we could have it in sim form, and it wouldn't take 24-48 hours to get to cislunar space, either.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
That would be PropCycle by Namco, ca. 1988(?)
A truly great game, requiring both skill and endurance. Very imersive, very pretty levels, shock full of hidden bonii that will keep you replaying it over and over...
They still have it at the local amusement park, so I get to play it every summer, lucky me!
Get dance dance revolution for the playstation.
For those unfamiliar with the game, basically you have a pad with 4 arrows, up down left right. On screen you see 4 static arrows at the top of the screen and then some colored arrows floating upwards toward them. You press the arrow on the pad when the colored and static arrows overlap.
It's a great form of exercise, it even includes a diet mode where you set the amount of calories you want to burn and itll make you play until you reach your desired goal.
heres a site with some more information: www.ddrfreak.com