Video-Game Fanatics Can Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Dec 18, 2000 | by Stephen Goode

An orthopedic surgeon in Colorado has come up with a way for video-game-aholics to get some exercise while indulging their favorite pastimes. Ted Parks, age 39, of Denver, making use of gadgets he purchased at Radio Shack for a paltry $12, created what he's calling GAMEbike, a device that makes it possible for people to ride a stationary bike while playing a video game.

And stationary bikers can play at the speed they choose: the faster the player pedals, the faster the game goes, or you can slow the action by pedaling slowly. Players steer with the handlebars and make use of four buttons near the hand grips to operate the game. What's more, according to the Associated Press, GAMEbike allows users to ride their own stationary bikes and hook up to any game that's on the market.

So cool out all you folks out there who were concerned that the basic health of American youth of the future would be undermined by sitting long hours every day before a video game! Minds and eyes may still be addled from all that time in front of a screen pursuing imaginary foes, but there are going to be hosts of folks with super legs.