Electronic Coach

It's game time boys and girls. We need to get healthy, we need to get fit, so everybody turn your video games on. What?!?

It's true we are entering a new era. The era of the "Health Games". It started with games like Dance Dance Revolution, Mario Olympics, Wii Fit and now includes EA Sports Acvtive. After years of complaints that children (and adults) are becoming obese because of all the couch time playing the traditional video games, the video game industry is striking back by offering games that make us healthier (very reminiscent of McDonald's offering fruit and walnut salad and apple slices instead of french fries in Happy Meals after "Super Size Me") and it doesn't stop there. Nintendo is offering for its DS such things as "Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking" and "My Weight Loss Coach".

What does this tell me? The same thing I have told people for years. Video games didn't make you do it, you chose to do it. Video games made you fat... you can no longer claim that, because now they can also make you thin. Exercises alone isn't enough to make you thin you also will have to stop drinking two liters of sugary soda a day, the Twinkies and tootsie rolls have to go (or at least be consumed in moderation).

I foresee the coming of anger management and sensitivity training video games In the future when some schmo kills someone and says they were able to do it because video games desensitized and made them do it maybe they can play those games in their nice little cell.

Have Fun and Be Great!