The Gym Arcade

theodp writes "Cross Halo with an exercise bike, and you get Expresso Fitness' S3, which lets you blow away dragons by squeezing handlebar-mounted triggers as you pedal hard through the Chinese countryside. Portfolio notes that a new generation of Wii-like workouts is hitting gyms and homes, with companies like GameRunner incorporating treadmills into First Person Shooters and Kickstart offering mini steppers and cycles for popular game systems."

Comments

Game Idea for treadmill:

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw the video and I must admit that it's pretty snazzy. Here are some game ideas:

- Being a Nigger running away from an all-white lynch mob. The game camera could intermittently pan around 180 degrees to see how close those whippin' whites are.

- Being a Mexican running from La Migra through downtown Los Angeles. It would need a pressure sensor so that the player could jump over virtual fences.

- Being a meth addict running from the cops. In this game the speed of the camera movement would scale exponentially with the rate of change in the gamer's running speed to provide an authentic simulation of of the meth high.

Re:Game Idea for treadmill:

[crossmr]

Its interesting that you chose a word considered probably the most vulgar in the english language to describe one group, yet chose a nice neutral nationality to describe another group instead of a slang term. Can't figure out just how racist you want to be today?