Want to be the Pokemon Master? You better invest in some walking shoes. Players of the newest Pokémon game/s HeartGold/SoulSilver will have to walk 1,000 miles in order to unlock all the routes on their Pokéwalker. (Just as a comparison, the average sedentary adult will walkbetween 1,000 and 3,000 steps per day, or .5 miles to 1.5 miles. It would anywhere from several months to over a year, at those rates!)
Now that’s how you motivate the video game generation. Forget Wii Fit Plus. Konami’s Walk It Out can take a hike. I want my exercise time to mean something. And by “mean something”, I mean “give me something other than leg cramps and severe boredom”. Pokéwalker routes beat both of those any day.
