Manebito

Random side note
I was just at a birthday / father’s day / going away / congratulations / we’ll see party, and I got my friend a gift. It was the “Eye Toy” for the PS2 with a game called Antigravity. If any of you remember game called “TrickStyle“ http://www.dreamcastgameworld.com/game.php/id/572/for the Dreamcast from Sega, then you’ll know what Antigravity looks like. If you don’t, then think of any snowboarding / racing / trick making game…set in the future but you don’t use a snowboard and you don’t ride on snow. The Eye Toy is not a “new thing” that I discovered, but the first set of games it cam with sucked – well they were fun for about 15 minutes – so nobody said you “have to get it”. The Eye Toy is a crappy little camera but the image recognition software is pretty “wow’able”. It tracks your head and hands to control the game.

Anyway for this game you have to move allot especially for beginners. I’m 200 pounds, 6 feet tall, and pretty coordinated guy – but throwing my head/ arms / body around to make this jet boarder fly and do kick flips for 15 minutes was tough after the 4th and 5th race. It’s a long track but it is a very fun workout!!!!

Manebito http://www.n-sider.com/features/features-082804-nintendorevolutionfaq04.gif

Now I don’t own a PS2. I have gamecube and XBOX neither of which has an eye toy like controller so I might have to shell out 149.00 for the PS2 then 49.99 for the game – that is still cheaper then a gym membership. Looking on-line I see Nintendo "may" come out with Manebito Can I wait for the Manebito? Or wait for the PS3? Or next XBOX or gamecube???

Max
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