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07/19/09
Wii Boxing, I can see... If you do it long enough. It's an authentic Aerobic (or for you weightlifters who are afraid of that term, thinking it's too "girly" we could call it "Cardio") workout, so I'll give into that one.
DDR, on the other hand... It's only a legitimate Aerobic (cardio) workout when you do something like endless mode. Doing a dance for a minute and a half may make you tired, but it isn't really beneficial. Also, it only really becomes beneficial once you get into standard or heavy mode. If you want to exercise with DDR, you need to do standard mode fast (180 BPM or faster) songs continuously for at least 5 or 6 minutes at a time.
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But yeah, as switchblade sais, for people that don't do much excersize in the first place is a pretty big improovement.
And it's great for microcardio when you are at parties fulling around.
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I need to get my 3-yr-old son down to Santa Cruz and show him the arcade, He played a crappy Spiderman game at our local mall recently and loved it. All he did was walk back and forth and jump over things, but he loved it.
I won't bring video games into our home for him just yet (at least until he can read, add, write, whatever kids do in school these days), but trips to the arcade are definitely in order.
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Some games are $1 a pop. I think not.
07/07/09
i dont know when 50 cents became a standard, but 50 cent games 25 years ago with inflation considered would amount to over a dollar today.
i dont get why people cant accept that kind of stuff... minimum wage in 1985 was less than 4 bucks.. now (in a couple weeks) its over 7..
not gripin at ya.. just sayin that 1.00 seems steep.. but i bet id have felt the same way in the 80s about 50 cents if i was in the same economic situation im in now. that argument and the $60 one both get to me.. because games cost MORE than that in the 90s.
i think 2 things were the biggest blows to arcades (at least in the west).
1) the transition to 3d.. basically the dreamcast. by the time graphics looked that good on a home console.. they stopped trying to 1up them in arcades.. so we ended up with arcade games that not only didnt outdo home ports, but in some cases were INFERIOR. whats the point in me spending 50 cents on soul calibur at the arcade when it looks like dog crap compared to the dreamcast version.
2) the rise in popularity of western gaming. that sentence explains itself.. out of all the big name arcade houses in the day, midway is the only important western group that comes to mind. and they really didnt do anything to help arcades out over here in the last 10 years did they?
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sure i'm in the minority, but i don't like heat.
or sand.
or disrobing in public.
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or the sun
or... humans
*shudder*
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Every day not in a siberian gulag is a day at the beach, comrade.
You would do well to remember before speaking in such a way again.
07/07/09
I feel like a Muslim who's never been to Mekka.
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Promptly turn in your gamer card, and make your way to the exit.
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My favorite story was the 7-Eleven right near my house got Shinobi when it first came out and the owner let me play it for free for helping him out around the store like sweeping the sidewalk or putting paper towels outside for washing windows. Good times.
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I used to love the beech arcades.
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"By AJ Glasser, 2:00 PM on Tue Jul 7 2009, 141 views "
EnigmaNemesis *
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You are some sort of reading god. I bow to you. :P
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Speed reading 101
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Dont hate cause your literacy is not up to Jedi standards!
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Finds all this literacy hullabaloo sort of ironic since Enigma misspelled 'beach' in the OP.
Still, Enigma, I regularly enjoy your comments, and this one is no different :)
07/07/09
It was on purpose, as in the trees!
*waves hand*
07/07/09
Of course it was a genius play on words...I just didn't think anyone *else* would get that part.
07/08/09
The force is strong with you!
07/06/09
Course, nowadays I actually use an Atomic Alarm Clock with an MP3 file off of a netbook as my primary alarm clock. It doubles as my check-in machine during the times I'm 24/7 on-call for work. I have it set to a song that in the first 30 seconds sounds coincidentally identical to a chime you'd hear in a department store. Weird, but still works!