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Joust-Cycle
'Cuz the world needs more exercise video games!! | |
Being a Dance Dance Revolution addict, I think it's time the gaming companies unleash a wave of retro games that are powered by exercise equipment.
First on the line, Joust-Cycle!! If you turn to page 53 in your 80s video game guide, you'll see that the game Joust (if you forgot your guide, see
[link]) is controlled by pressing left or right and one button to flap your wings. Flap your wings rapidly and you rise faster. This translates nicely to a workout game.
Now for the equipment. On each handlebar of the exercise bike is a button, one for left, one for right, which control your horizontal movement. Your wings are triggered every 1/2 revolution of the pedals on the bike.
Coming soon: Arkanoid-Cycle, Warlords-Cycle, Donkey Kong: Barrel-Jumper Edition, and Dance Dance Pac-Man.
Joust
http://www.klov.com/J/Joust.html
Ooh! Grab the egg before it falls in the lava! [jivetalkinrobot, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) Shockwave version of the game
http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/joust
[jivetalkinrobot, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Power Pad
http://www.i-mocker...minimocks/nes/9.asp
Not the same, but seems like a more logical device for a 2-button game. [Worldgineer, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
[link]
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I've seen plenty of videos of people DDRing freestyle, dropping down to slap arrows, spinning in circles, even doing choreographed dance moves with a partner; I think they look really cool! As for my own performance, I'd rather not watch... |
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"You won't even notice that you're exercising!!" |
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Baked - I can't remember the name but I once saw an arcade game exactly like this except you used the handle bars as normal and it was more like a race/time-trial (so not very exactly). |
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I've seen something like this too. Can't remember what its called. And someone has posted a link to it *somewhere* in the halfbakery. Enough of this vagary! I will return when I've found a link. |
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I talked to a friend about this and he really liked it. We're gonna buy a cheap exercise bike at Goodwill and see if we can bake this! I'll post a link with pictures if we actually do. |
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You could do it for 3-d games too. In fact, 3-d games where you ski, or skateboard, or jet-ski in 3-d are already baked. but they're not excercise. |
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Joust would be fairly easy to remake in 3-d. I'd love to play that. It's hard enough tapping the space bar, imagine how exausted you'd get pedaling...one could add a few more buttons for weapons and the subtler moves that today's games require. (really.) |
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You could have internet races, too...but it'd be more fun to have multiplayer internet deathmatches. Oh, the possibilities! And DDR deathmatches, too, for that matter. Dancematches anyway. |
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//Joust would be fairly easy to remake in 3-d// |
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Wow... what a fantastic idea right there. I'd love to see this in an arcade someday, especially if it was using the 'Cycle and on a semi-sphere display (so you could see further left & right, and partially up and down). You're right, this wouldn't be that hard to pull off! Pitch it to Atari; are they even still making games? |
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