Listen up kids, if you want to convince your parents that buying a Nintendo Wii is essential to your well being, be sure to point out that even the Navy is looking towards videogames to help whip recruits into shape. That’s no joke – the Navy’s Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Adam Robinson, said that the Navy was looking at using the equivalents of Nintendo’s Wii Fit and Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution as training tools in boot camp.
“There are lots of programs that people can [use to] become very physically active while they’re using interactive computer games,” Robinson said. “So, in other words, this isn’t about [starting] with computers and stopping [everything else] — because we’re not going to do that. This is about incorporating those types of activities into something that people can use to become more physically active.”
According to Robinson, today’s recruits enter the force in need of much more work to get into fighting shape than has been the case in the past, and he said it’s because so many young people now prefer computers and videogames to sports and activities.
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Navy Considers Wii Fit, DDR as Training Tools
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