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My Wii Fit Experience: A Geeky And Fun Way To Exercise

by Lia
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My Wii Fit Experience: A Geeky And Fun Way To Exercise

The Wii Fit Balance Board has been in the market for quite some time now, but it’s only recently that I was able to try it out myself. I must say, contrary to an old post about the Wii Fit in FG before, I personally find  the Wii Fit a fun (and geeky) way to exercise! Like most Wii Games, you start out by making your own Mii (if you don’t have one yet). And then you step on the Wii Balance Board for the Wii to be able to extract some personal data like your weight and BMI. If you are sensitive about your vital statistics, you can put Read more »

A Geek's Perspective On Wii Fit – Review

by Ryan
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A Geek's Perspective On Wii Fit – Review

Strength Training on the Wii Fit I got a Wii Fit for Christmas and was super excited. Not only do I love the idea of having an easy, indoor exercise solution during the cold days of winter, but as a geek there was just something beautiful about the idea of my video game system doubling as my exercise gym. My expectations were high, but did Wii Fit live up to them? The short answer is no. Here’s why. There are three major shortcomings with Wii Fit in my opinion. 1) Wii Fit Is Missing Defined Exercise Programs Perhaps the most glaring problem with Wii Fit is that it has no Read more »

Njoy releases Wii balance board clone

by Mel
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Njoy releases Wii balance board clone

I still haven’t found a single retailer of the Wii Fit. My search has been so futile, it’s like searching for the holy grail. I knew that this shortage of Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board is going to be taken advantage of by third party developers… and I was right. Njoy has recently released their own version of the Balance Board. Njoy’s G-Board Balance Board looks similar to Nintendo’s except for some marked differences. The foot markers are more defined, there is an LCD Display that presumably shows your weight as well as other pertinent data for each game, and most significantly, it is priced higher than the Read more »

Vague dates mar Wii fit launch

by Mel
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Vague dates mar Wii fit launch

In last February’s Game Developers Conference, Nintendo announced that its Wii Fit game / peripheral will be available in the market by May 19. This has greatly excited gamers and fitness freaks alike and have basically marked the date as D-Day for the Wii Fit. But Nintendo’s advertising campaign for the product has muddled the actual launch date when it was announced that the game will be made available on May 21. Nintendo of America representatives confirmed that May 19 is the correct date but it was discovered that it was only half true as the company announced that the May 19 launch is only applicable in the Nintendo World Read more »