Suddenly, every video game company started producing games that focused not just on fun but on getting exercise. Nintendo introduced the Wii which also ended up reversing a trend of video games turning kids and grown-ups into flabby couch potatoes. It was such a simple concept–move your feet to match on-screen arrows moving to the pace of pop music–but it was as addictive as a video game as as effective as the best aerobic workout in the gym.įast forward to 2006. It was one of the first mainstream games that involved not just exercise of the thumbs, hands, and wrists but the whole body. In 1998, they introduced a new arcade game called “Dance Dance Revolution”. In many ways, the company that brought “exergaming” into the mainstream has been Konami.
