Nintendo Wii Fit

Earlier this week, I picked up Wii Fit at the local Target; it was barely 9 am, and there were only 3 Wii Fits left when I departed the store. The two people in front of me in the Electronics section were also purchasing Wii Fit. Then, for the next few days, the box sat unopened, until this morning, when I finally had time to play with it.

Wii Fit is the name of the pack-in game that comes with the Wii Balance Board; like Wii Sports, Wii Fit includes a variety of games on the disc which include both more serious workout regimens as well as more game-like activities, such as tight-rope walking and slalom.

The Wii Balance board is essentially an electronic scale which measures your weight on each foot; thus the shifting of your weight is essentially what is being measured. After inputing some information to determine your BMI, the game tells you whether you are "underweight, normal, overweight or obese", and after a series of balance tests, it determines what your Wii Fit Age is.

As you can see, I scored 10 years over my actual age; this is not too bad, especially considering that Olympic athletes Heather O'Reilly and Heather Mitts on the Nintendo Channel) scored about the same on the initial run through.