Today was our first day of exergames in our first adult game lab session. All the adults seemed enthusiastic about today and were eager to try out many exergames they had all heard something about. We have a mixture of health outreach professionals, physical education teachers, commuity and elementary educations, participating in this session. The majority of the group had never played exergames before this session, and a few had only been exposed to Wii Sports. Some of the games were so popular that it took a while for participants to sit down and eat lunch and even after they did, they got up immediately to exergame again. I anticipated some trepidation for todays events since so many participants were new to video games, however, everyone played and seemed really intersted in the possibilities these games offered for their programs or classrooms, which is more than I could ask for. Everyone played at least 4-5 different games. The favorites today were as follows:
Wii Fit - especially the balance games and hula hoop
EA Sports Active - many participants loved how much of a sweat they worked up on this
Wii Sports - Boxing and Tennis
DDR - I was suprised that so many people really liked this quite a bit.
Other games that were played included the following:
DS games: Let's Yoga, Let's Pilates, Quick Yoga Training, My Weightloss Coach
PS2: Kinetic with Eye Toy
Wii: Golds Gym Cardio Workout
We have set up another exergame day to look at several more games in this category.
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