I was helping my 7-year-old dear daughter (DD) with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii. (It’s an excellent game, but my personal favorite in the series is the mind-blowing Majora’s Mask, which originally came out on the N64 and is now available on the Wii Virtual Console.)
Me: “We have to take a break. We’ve been playing Zelda for 3 hours!”
DD: “But my eyes aren’t even hurting yet!”
All right, I’m exaggerating — the perfect DDR shoe would be a shoe that made my feet move 20% faster, while at the same time making me look 5 inches taller, 10 pounds lighter, and 25 years younger.
But I digress.
I’m not saying that you’re going to be doing your social life any favors, but if you want to significantly improve your Dance Dance Revolution experience, you might want to check out the Vibram Five Fingers shoe:
It’s a little disconcerting at first to be able to feel the dancepad with the bottoms of your feet and your toes, but once you get used to the shoes, they rock!
Of course, I’m talking about using the shoes for the arcade, or an arcade-type dancepad, such as the Cobalt Flux or the RedOctane Afterburner. For soft pads, you should stick to bare feet.
VFF shoes aren’t cheap (around $80 online for the Classic), but I’m not complaining. If the internet is to be believed, the shoes are also good for running — but start out slow, and build up to longer distances and higher speeds gradually…
Am I the only one who thinks this might be a hoax?
Various sources report that a South Korean couple became so addicted to an online video game that they allowed their 3-month-old infant to starve to death, while nurturing their “virtual” child in a video gaming parlor.
Here’s why I’m not 100% convinced that this is a real story:
Time will tell, I guess.
British illusionist Derren Brown claims to be able to use neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to hypnotize people instantly, without their knowledge. What to do with this awesome ability? Why, make a reality TV show, of course!
In one of Mr. Brown’s more memorable stunts, he hypnotizes some random guy in a pub playing a zombie shooter game. After the victim — I mean, subject — is placed into a catatonic trance, he is then transported into a neighboring building, where he is placed into the “real” game, including zombies and a rifle. Hilarity ensues.
Tony Robbins, eat your heart out!
