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Video Games in Gym Class - DDR 101?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the olympics-of-the-mind dept.

Saige writes: "When I was in school, gym class was basketball, running laps, and icky locker rooms. Today, kids get to play video games - and get credit for them! No, it is not as bad as it seems. Apparently, someone has become clued in that Dance Dance Revolution promotes physical activity, and a school in California is making use of that. Can I go back and retake gym?"

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  1. Re:Beats square dancing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If not for square dancing, I would've had to wait until college to hold a girl's hand.

  2. Quake by selderrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since Q3, my backflip hasn't been equaled in ANY gym class.

    Have you ever seen someone jump around like a rabbit for 45 minutes and ending with a tripple backflip into a canyon, while shooting a 3pointer upwards, carrying 150pounds of armour ?
    Ha, I can't wait till this shit gets approved for the olympics !

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  3. Mosh Mosh Revolution... by nologin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, I like this idea a lot better. Not that I like or dislike punk music, but it just seems so right.

  4. Uber by t_allardyce · · Score: 4, Funny

    DDR type games are one of those inventions that seem lame, but when you think about, are actually killer apps. For example. I hate dancing, it makes you look like a right prat. I don't see where the enjoyment comes from. But DDR is fun. I know this could be taken even further, with rows and rows of machines in clubs/discos etc. and with different variations on the theme. For example, virtual-DDR, where you use a vr-helmet to shut you out from the fact that people are staring at your bad dancing. The helmet shows you a crowed of people cheering you and if one of them boos or laughs at you, the game will allow you to either draw a virtual pistol out and shoot them in the head, or simply kick them across the room matrix style :) The _real_ crowd watching your virtual view on a monitor, will be to scared to mock you on PH34R of death.

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  5. Didn't your mother teach you anything? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Women don't like to be referred to as 'broads'.

    :one of the few I have seen girls playing in
    :arcades. We need more games that have a broad
    : appeal like that.

  6. So the kids are dancing in gym... by guttentag · · Score: 4, Funny

    I will be impressed when someone develops a "Running Laps" game that kids are fighting to play.