| Doug Jacobs 2005-03-31, 3:50 am |
| In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Matthew Gunn <matthewgunn_au@hotmail.com> wrote:
quote:
> I really should look before posting. I also wanted to say, I vaguely
> remember a game years ago where you were riding a pedal powered flying
> machine. I can't remember the name of it but you actually had to pedal
> to get teh thing to go anywhere. Great fun for about 2 minutes and then
> it seems all to much like excercise.
The gym I used to go to did try out these machines that were essentially
excercise bikes hooked up to a PC. You had to keep peddling to keep the
computer responding to you, though (so no slacking!) You could surf the
web (with their ad-laden browser) or play this game in which you scooted
around a playing field in what looked like a bike from Tron, shooting
other bikes which represented computer opponents, or other people peddling
next to you. The faster you peddled, the faster you could move and
shoot. Your speed also determined how fast your pages loaded, too. So I
wouldn't recomend sniping on Ebay while exercising, unless you're Lance
Armstrong, or looking to bust a lung. ;)
The bikes didn't last long. Besides the computers being ultra flakey
(I've never seen a BSOD on a bike before) the game wasn't very popular
because the jocks tended to dominate. Nerds like me got into gaming to
get away from the jocks. I don't think we'd want physical prowress to be
that much of a factor for games, otherwise you'd have tech-savy jocks
running roughshod over the nerds in a whole new format.
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