Mario Kart Saves Child From Blindness

[nick n stuff]

see. computer games are good for you

 

[JediMB]

Um..That picture..Which game is that from? I don't ever recall playing that level, and I've played Mario Kart DS to death.

Mario Kart Wii

 

[droppingpenny]

Even if someday we will find out, that Nintendo's products ressurect dead children, kittens and puppies. There will be people who will bash Nintendo for no apparent reason.

 

[Danpascooch]

Well if it's about making the eye work harder, of course videogames are an excellent way to do that!

Although I doubt there is anything special about Mario Kart over most other videogames

I dunno, Mario Kart has a shitload going on at any time. Shooters have things to look at to shoot, normal racers have other cars, platformers have platforms. Mario Kart has other karts, weird track layouts, boosts/jumps, items, item boxes, weaponry and all kinds of other crap.

True, but I still wouldn't say that is necessarily unique in its degree of eye work.

I imagine something like guitar hero could be incredibly effective, after all, the entire premise of the game is keeping track of colored bars that shoot down the screen.

 

[theklng]

oh yes clearly this is the GAME's credit, NOT the monitor giving visual clues to him. my bet it any other game OR cartoon OR tv series (to a certain degree) would have had the exact same effect on him. and when i say to a certain degree i mean that there would need to be a certain amount of color on screen before improvement would be likely to happen.

in either case, mariokart/nintendo receives no brownie points here, and neither does the stupidity at work in giving free advertising for nintendo because of misinformation.

This is the Daily Mail we're talking about. The UK tabloid most likely to campaign to ban all video games, printing a good news story about video games. Fanboy or anti-fanboy, Nintendo earns many brownie points because it's the inverse of what we expect to see from the Mail on video games.

you're missing the point: the above news story has nothing to do with video games.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

you're missing the point: the above news story has nothing to do with video games.

The Daily Mail has nothing to do with news stories though, so it's a fair swap.

 

[Logic 0]

Soon doctors will be perscribing nintendo for poor eyesight.

 

[SultanP]

Bah, whenever gaming does something good, it's attributed to a specific game, but whenever there's a chance to pin something bad on gaming, it's on the entirety of gaming. Doesn't seem fair to me.

 

[superbatranger]

So that's why he's called Dr. Mario! What's next? A cure for cancer?

 

[FungiGamer]

Wait'll he gets his hands on the 3DS, that eye is gonna pop out of his skull!

 

[cobra_ky]

This is nothing new. I remember reading a similar story in a letter in Nintendo Power like, 15 years ago. (the game was either SMB or SMB3, can't remember which now.)

 

[Insomniaku]

2 hours a day!? I mean, I've played games for 8 hours at a time but Mario Kart? I bet he's fucking killer at it!

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Nintendo is just too awesome. Leading the industry and making tons of great games, and now saving children from blindness? They make being a Nintendo fanboy really easy.

 

[Terramax]

Thanks Escapist. You will let us know when the DS cures cancer?

 

[Jared]

And whos says video games dont have a use! I love it!

 

[Ravek]

The fact that there is only a single test subject, and no control group, leads me to dismiss the health benefits of playing Mario Kart as wildly speculative. As long as there's no scientific evidence to support the claim, there is no way in the world that an article title like 'Mario Kart saves child from blindness' is justified. Bad, bad journalism. On part of the Daily Mail, and on part of the Escapist from blindly spreading the story.

 

[AngryMongoose]

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"For Every Action, there is an equal and opposite Reaction"
-Newton's Third Law of Motion.

Calumon: I thought Gaming was bad for your eyes?

 

[OmegaXIII]

Why the hell didn't they tell me to do this for my lazy eye!?