Fat Kids Get Free Consoles

The only hard part will be finding 85 fat American kids.

All the ones I see on TV (which is just like real life) are slim and fit.

I think this research will be foiled before it begins.

I think this is a great move in order to get kids off their fat arses. As some of you may know I've raised the DDR exercise topic before so this is good to see someone out there listening. DDR popularity has been making headlines in the u.s for some time now so this is a good progression of that positive u.s media coverage.

Next step I think would be to have a DDR machine in every junior/ high school across the country. Get them to work off those McDs at school and then they will go home and have a go too. More great press for Konami.

Konami could also have a try here in the u.k now that the trash chool food business is being sorted out.

Perhaps all fast food outlets should also invest in these DDR machines too. The more kids see them the more they will play them.

Totally. I've SEEN 'The OC'!!

The trouble is some of the kids will probably give up on it after a few minutes, and even if they do stick with it, they'll probably go to mcdonalds afterwards and put the weight they lost back on, lol

Aha, that's where the school DDR are machines would come in to encourage them to try at home and not just at school. Competing with friends will drive them to do more and by getting them to do this extra they benefit in the long run. Sure some will opt to play other PS2 games but perhaps there should be conditions attached to the PS2 freebee, like you have to use this DDR mat and game at least five days a week for an thirty mins to an hour. Failure to keep up with use could result in your PS2 being given to someone more worthy of it.

That would help a lot if parents could enforce it properly.

What I'd like to see in the future in a DDR gym perhaps for kids. This would be like an arcade but friendlier where kids would be encouraged to take up other activities too. A place where they can go to get them away from sitting in Pizza Hut and McDs.

But by taking the kids ps2 away presents another problem,say the kid tried his best at the DDR games but failed to keep up with the proposed deadlines and ended up having the ps2 taken away, this could potentialy lower the kids morale and dicourage the kid from participating.



Just by having a glorified gym does'nt necesselery mean they're automaticaly going to stop going to places such as burger king or pizza hut, the kids diet would play an important role in this too.

Now if you'll excuse me, i'm off for a big mac and chips.

Always in "Macky D's", eh? Is that how you got your name?

(in response to kid_77:)
m,a and c is are initials (it just so happens when you put then together they spell half the name of the popular fast food frachise), all I did was put my initials together and viola Mac was born.

Unlucky.

I just hope these kids live in houses with concrete floors.

Dance mats, fat people and suspended wooden floors are a roadmap to a ruin house.

what ever happened to a bit of exercise, has it become so bad that yu have to now excercise in front of the TV. why would we want to go outside, thats where the sun is.

and if a kid is that large, and too embarrased as such and cant keep up with the 30 minz a day, then have it taken away from him. what konami doing is great, but its up to the children to pave their own path of life. if they want to die at age 52 in front of the PS23, then thats their issue, quite frankly i cant stand more than 2 hours in front of the tv...

I have nothing to say on this, i'm just posting, LOL

Vitamin D is bad for your screen tan.

Outside? You mean the big, blue room?

Or Big grey, snowing room if you're in Yorkshire at this moment.

I don't know why yanks can't do more sport when they are so fond of watching it. Perhaps that the problem, how many films have we seen of american high schools where the kids are always trying to dodge gym class? Plenty because some of them are proper lazy,they prefer the passive experience of watching basketball etc on tv than actually playing it. Stereotyping, maybe but credit goes to those kids that do make an effort to get their heart pumping. On top of that they have a large country so shouldn't have any trouble finding a green field or something to play on.

The situation in th u.k is different in that the majority of parks and greenspaces are being sold off behind our back to make way for more houses, the ones that are left are full of dogshit. Houses bring more people some who will have kids and where will these new kids play? They will play on street corners in groups, generally making people feel uncomfortable because there is nowhere for them to go and in some cases get up to no good once past frustration point (which in turn frustrates peers). Our government and councils then choose to establish curfews and criminalise kids which results in more ASBOs and more kids in jail. A real problem spirals out of control and all because the government and councils created the problem by forgetting to cater for their future voters, the kids. And they wonder why there is so much apathy amongst the young in the u.k.

I hope I'm not straying too far off topic. When a child get depressed (because your childhood is like that above) some will eat and put on weight so there is a domino effect in progress. In the u.s they have more to do actively than kids in the u.k, they are just more sloth like and eat more junk. Hopefully DDR will save their fat arses yet. Surprised they still need it when they have summer camp and stuff to do when we don't. If there were summer camps or similar here it might help kids off of the streets.

Be sure to let me know you Twinkies worth.

im here in Canada, and since our population is almost nill, and we have a whackload of land, there allota room to do s**t. but like 90% of the population lives in a 200 km radius from where i am in ontario. althoe i drive 3 hours north, and im in the middle of the woods, at my cottage. the further north yu go from there, the less peeple there are, im talkin like 1 person per 100 km square...

there are sum large peeple i have seen around at skool, and i dont know how they can live with themselves, if i was ever like that, i would want to fix it. i thank god for my obessesion to soccer.

i realize that was off topic... yu can sue me.

I think eyetoy is also another one of those things that help exercise, or maybe ddr for chubby legs, and eyetoy for chubby arms ;). Seriously after half an hour of kung foo they'll be unable to move their arms.