Wii Fit your lifestyle?
May 26, 2008 13:36
Wii Fit was released in the US last week and I got my grubby hands on 1, .. no, two, three, four, five... yeah, at last count, it was five Wii Fit (friends asked me to buy it since my office is close to the Wii shop) and two Wii machines.
I could get to play only 7 minutes or so a day because everybody in the house was fighting for it. My brother and my kid were on it every free moment they had. This morning though, I woke up with aches in my lower body.
The Wii Fit's main component is the Wii board--you see it in the picture. It measures your weight and how your weight is distributed throughout the board. If you thought the Wii controller was magic, wait till you see the Wii board. It's an amazing device and the potential it unleashes is mindboggling. After you ski on the Wii board, every skiing game you've played in your life in a console is quickly rendered obsolete. The realism of skiing, skateboarding, etc., on a Wii board is amazing--the muscle groups which ache when skiing on the Wii board, for example, are exactly the same as the hurt you suffer when you actually ski. Without the upper body aches, of course.
It's funny too. I managed an almost optimal Body Mass Index, but when my brother stepped on it it went to almost Obese and we were rolling on the floor laughing. But the kicker was when we delivered one of these things to a larger person, and it was almost off the scale--that one we rolled on the floor laughing for a much longer time.
The magic of the Wii Fit and board is that it is instantly attractive to anybody. People hitherto and utterly disinterested in this game watched it with rapt attention. My three-year-old son who's more interested in balloons than anything else gave those rubber bursters a miss and went for this thing. He was even willing to stand still for a little while for the machine to measure his stats.
After this Wii Fit, it would be unethical and lying to recommend any other console other than the Wii to anybody who's not a hardcore gamer asking for a console for his family. Way to go... just waiting for weights which can fit a Wii Remote for a full fitness center.
Who needs California Fitness after this?
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Wow you really made this sound like a lot of fun! Although aching thigh muscles is not fun.
May 26, 2008 19:05
Don't forget the part where your Avatar grows Fat or Thin depending on you BMI calculated.. When you start losing weight, your Avatar looses weight too .... har har!!
Jun 07, 2008 20:02
The magic of the Wii Fit and board is that it is instantly attractive to anybody. People hitherto and utterly disinterested in this game watched it with rapt attention.
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Sep 27, 2008 03:26
where did you get the Wii machine from Mic? is it a cheaper shop or a shop you always patronize ? let me know ler.. cause I want to get the wii machine and also the Wii fit, Hope you can let me know roughly how much is it going for when you bought it? thank a million..
Oct 08, 2008 01:52
issac, i always buy wii stuff from Seow Choon. Not for price or anything but Nicole is a really nice person :)
Oct 08, 2008 10:33
seow choon ar? wheres that? okla.. nicole ? chiobu issit.. ahha .. ok i will go check it out.. then if good price then thanks to your recommendation can go yam cha nearby .. ahah
Oct 08, 2008 16:20
About Michael Tan
Michael Tan is lucky enough not to have to choose between his job and his passion. He is the responsible for all aspects of developing new businesses and sourcing new productlines for a regional IT distribution company. He also oversees the company's legal affairs as General Counsel. In real life, he is a technology enthusiast, from both the fun and business viewpoint. The only choices he has to make are whether to play with his astro telescopes, his PC games, his Wii console, hit the track, tweak his car, or refine his biofilters, post his blogs, research for a new digicam, scour every forum to feed his habit further, play with his son…
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