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Students give seniors the gift of video games

2008-03-14 15:20:07 by michelewhite in Adrenaline Vault
 
...seniors and children cheer. McBride is not at a bowling alley. Instead, she and fellow seniors are trying out one of five new Wii systems The seniors, at Southwood Care Centre, are surrounded by children from Foundations for the Future Charter Academy. The school raised $2,500 to buy Wii systems and Wii games for the seniors home. The...
 
Tags: seniors, wii controller, controller, wii, seniors home, wii games, fellow seniors, wii systems, academy
 
 
 
 
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Analysis: Making DDR For Seniors With Touchtown's Dancetown

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2008-07-06 16:00:12 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...seniors fit is interesting in theory, and it's impressive that these folks are trying it In this session from the recent Games for Health conference, Jeff Pepper, President and CEO of Touchtown, discussed his company's work in creating Dancetown - a PC-based dance game specifically aimed at older players and retirement homes, to give players...
 
Tags: game, game development, track performance in-game, pepper, games, dance mat game, dance games, pepper noted, jeff pepper
 
 
 
 
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Toyota, Brain Age Doc Design Cars For Seniors

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2007-12-19 14:13:27 by Chris Kohler in Game | Life
Over the next few years, Toyota will team up with Brain Age professor Ryuta Kawashima to design cars for senior citizens Kawashima will attempt to apply some of the Nintendo DS games' lessons of stimulating and responding to brain activity into Toyota's cars, he said. This could include determining a driver's driving patterns and automatically...
 
Tags: cars, brain, develop cars, design cars, toyota, brain activity, automatic temperature control, seniors wired, senior citizens
 
 
 
 
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Libraries And Gaming - The ALA Blazes The Way!

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2008-04-06 16:00:12 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...seniors. Not only are these users gaining experience and confidence with these new systems before moving up to computer classes, but they also are being taught how to use the equipment by local teens in a reverse mentoring program Not all games are right for every library user. Just as with television shows, movies and books, parents need to...
 
Tags: play games, play, library activities, library, library user, library attendance, library services, play video games, libraries
 
 
 
 
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Does Casual Gaming Exist?

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2008-05-17 15:44:00 by Terry "coloradojoe" Terrones in As the Gaming World Turns
...seniors who live in retirement communities. From Larry's perspective, these seniors and the guy who stays up until 3am playing team deathmatch in Halo 3 are one and the same. With a few exceptions (pregnancy, marriage, gender) saying you're either one thing or another is just plain stupid. So the statement of "you are a gamer or a non-gamer"...
 
Tags: casual, enjoy casual games, casual games, hardcore gamers, hardcore, popular casual games, gamers, casual gamers, strictly casual fare
 
 
 
 
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Q&A: Nintendo's Reggie Talks Wii Shortages

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2007-12-14 12:52:34 by Chris Kohler in Game | Life
...seniors playing the Wii and really getting into it, I was just wondering if you could tell me how the decision was made to pursue these, that market and when that decision was made and whether there was any skepticism within Nintendo or from you when it was decided to go after that market As you know, we made the decision to go after a much...
 
Tags: wii, sales, wii sales, systems, competitive systems, million wii systems, specific, specific wii, wii system
 
 
 
 
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God Save the Queen (from Nintendo)

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2008-01-07 12:51:33 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...seniors who are learning to love video games thanks to Nintendos popular Wii console As reported by The People , Her Majesty has beenmonopolizing Prince Williams new Wii, a Christmas gift from gal pal Kate Middleton. The report cites an unnamed source at Buckingham Palace When [the Queen]saw William playing a game after lunch at Sandringham...
 
Tags: nintendo, prince williams, nintendo addict, enjoys mobile phones, love video games, william, queens hand-eye co-ordination, elizabeth apparently, elizabeth
 
 
 
 
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Get your girl to game: Wii

2008-01-09 11:17:33 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
...seniors. If you need any proof, just check out the glut of pink Wii accessories on the market Because its relatively budget friendly and doesnt require much investment, noobs to console gaming are more likely to give it a try. Lets check out a few popular titles that might appeal to women non-gamers
 
Tags: wii, pink wii accessories, popular titles, girl, check, budget friendly, female audiences, game, non-traditional gamers
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: Carroll On Understanding The Casual Gamer

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2008-01-09 08:00:30 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...seniors. However, while the sentiment is somewhat accurate, it doesnt give us more than a glimpse of the picture Consider the following information about casual gamers The CGA reports that while buyers are mostly female (74 percent) and over 35 (72 percent), only slightly more than half of the players of casual games are female (51 percent)...
 
Tags: play, play casual games, casual games, casual, casual games space, survey, casual gamer survey, casual games market, casual gamers
 
 
 
 
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Reflexives Carroll On Understanding The Casual Gamer

2008-01-09 18:47:03 by RawmeatCowboy in Go Nintendo
 
...seniors. However, while the sentiment is somewhat accurate, it doesnt give us more than a glimpse of the picture. - Reflexives director of marketing Russell Carroll That right there is a big part of the problem when developers try to create products for the casual market. There are men over 40, young kids, teens, and even people like me that...
 
Tags: casual experience, enjoy casual games, baby boomers, casual gamers, casual market, russell ca