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Video Games Rest Thumbs With Switch To Drums (reuters)
By Reed Stevenson and Yukari Iwatani Kane
Thu May 19, 9:50 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Drums, hand signals and cell phones
are just a few of the ways that gamers will play video games as
the industry tries to wean people away from mashing buttons on
a control pad.
At the opening of the video game industry's main
exposition, gamers at
's booth were dancing in step to
its upcoming "Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix" and thumping on
the bongos to play "Donkey Konga 2" on its GameCube console.
Since the advent of Atari's "Pong" over three decades ago,
the gaming industry has grown into a medium that has made an
icon out of the intensely focused teenager sitting on a couch,
in front of a television, his thumbs a blur as he whacks
buttons on a controller.
But that is changing -- not necessarily because mashing on
a controller is bad for you, but because game makers realize
there can be a more entertaining variety of ways for players to
interact with a game.
"I think we will see a lot more games that people can
interact with in much more personal ways, in much more direct
ways than with a controller and a set of wires coming out of
it," said Doug Lowenstein, president of the industry trade
group behind the annual Electronics Entertainment Expo, known
as E3, in Los Angeles this week.
Game fans are already familiar with beyond-button arcade
games. They dance to Konami Corp.'s (9766.T) "Dance Dance
Revolution" and strum an electronic guitar to play
"GuitarFreaks," for instance.
Arcade games also simulate flying and race on simulated
snowboards, cars and bicycles. Game companies want to bring
that excitement and action to the living room.
DANCING AND DRUMMING
At E3, designers were promoting their newest gadgets in
full force, hoping to entice users to spend more than what they
would ordinarily pay for a gaming console and library.
Konami showed its "Beatmania" music title while Playlogic
had people sitting behind the steering wheel in a race car seat
to try out its new "World Racing 2" game.
Sony demonstrated EyeToy, which debuted in 2003. EyeToy is
a tiny camera mounted to the top of a TV screen that tracks a
user's hand and arm movements. Gamers can paint, toss boulders
and navigate without ever touching a controller.
On the show floor, game fans could play virtual table
tennis by just swinging their arms, or punch the air repeatedly
to hit a virtual punching bag.
CELL PHONES AND MORE
The first significant departure from the idea of a home
console came in the handheld gaming machines mass-produced by
Nintendo in the early 1980s, featuring "Donkey Kong" and
"Mario" characters on monochrome LCD screens.
Then Nintendo scored a huge hit in 1989 with its Game Boy
handheld game player, which untethered users.
Nintendo continues that tradition as its latest handheld,
Nintendo DS, takes advantage of a first-of-its kind touch
screen, to introduce completely new games such as "Nintendogs,"
which allows users to raise a virtual puppy, and
"Electroplankton," which lets users create their own rhythms.
The Japanese company has not yet given details on how its
next-generation console will be played, but President Satoru
Iwata hinted at its news conference that it would mark a break
from the way games have been played in the past.
"It's not about what you will be playing, but how you will
play," Iwata said.
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