The Gamer’s Exercise

Several years ago, my wife was watching over my shoulder as I played Everquest. She remarked that I did an awful lot of running in that game.

“Imagine if you had to run in real life like you run in the game?”

We bandied back and forth, and decided that if there was a way to force a gamer to exercise in order to get higher performance from their in-game avatars, we’d have a much healthier computer-gaming set. The future we talked about seven years ago is finally here:

Several years ago, my wife was watching over my shoulder as I played Everquest. She remarked that I did an awful lot of running in that game.

“Imagine if you had to run in real life like you run in the game?”

We bandied back and forth, and decided that if there was a way to force a gamer to exercise in order to get higher performance from their in-game avatars, we’d have a much healthier computer-gaming set. The future we talked about seven years ago is finally here:

http://www.gamercize.net/pcsport.htm

Yes, I want one. I don’t know if I want it for this Christmas, but I’d love one under my desk. I just had my blood pressure taken yesterday, and it’s 120/90… which means the diastolic is about 10 points higher than it should be. Exercise and losing weight are two of the proven methods, outside of drugs, which can drop your diastolic reading several points. Sign me up!