Mario Kart Saves Child From Blindness

[Ed.]

Sourceaily Mail

it was going so well

 

[Joshimodo]

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.

Yeah, that's an idea. Though you'd have to keep him in check, since GH/RB have been known to make your vision trail/continue moving after you've stopped.

 

[ImprovizoR]

This is good news for gaming and it's a sweet story. I'm happy for the kid. Still, he should play Counter Strike. That should heal his condition in a matter of days.

 

[Zeromaeus]

This is good news for gaming and it's a sweet story. I'm happy for the kid. Still, he should play Counter Strike. That should heal his condition in a matter of days.

Katamari Damacy would take just a few hours by that logic.

 

[theklng]

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.

it made it this far, i'd call that a news story; whether you count your bias towards whatever establishment the daily mail comes from or not.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

it made it this far, i'd call that a news story; whether you count your bias towards whatever establishment the daily mail comes from or not.

Less of a bias towards establishments, more of a point the Daily Mail regularly makes things up as referenced here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/7.205226.6917758]. English tabloids admit their journalism is less about news and more about sensation.

If you'd like, I can dig up what the Daily Mail says about Iran, but I don't think you'll agree with it much.

 

[The Night Shade]

Now your playing with miracles

 

[theklng]

it made it this far, i'd call that a news story; whether you count your bias towards whatever establishment the daily mail comes from or not.

Less of a bias towards establishments, more of a point the Daily Mail regularly makes things up as referenced here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/7.205226.6917758]. English tabloids admit their journalism is less about news and more about sensation.

If you'd like, I can dig up what the Daily Mail says about Iran, but I don't think you'll agree with it much.

again you're missing the point: this isn't about who made the news story, and it never was. i tried to explain it to you nicely with my last post, but you're forcing me to be blunt.

 

[Flight]

That's awesome, and sweet.

 

[LitleWaffle]

Doctor Mario indeed.

Ninja'd =(

OT: Take that, video game haters!

 

[Dfskelleton]

Why should Nintendo get credit? While I'm glad that little boy isn't blind, Nintendo doesn't deserve credit. Mario is just that boy's video game of choice. If he played something else, would that company get credit? If Nintendo uses this for advertising, I'm never buying anything from them again (Unless it's really cool, but due to my peculiar tastes, that's not happening)

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

I've also heard that gamers tend to have higher reflexes than people who don't play video games, other than taking away time from sunshine and exercise, video games aren't bad for you at all.

 

[RN7]

Haha! Another blow against those of ignorance and naysaying, albeit, this victory is entirely situational.

 

[Wintermoot]

Dr.Mario!

 

[ninjajoeman]

EAT THAT EVERY PERSON THAT SAID VIDEO GAMES ARE THE DEVILS WORK!

 

[OceanRunner]

The media would probably ignore this, since it doesn't support their prefered opinion that games are bad.

 

[veloper]

Now all we need is a case of cancer cured by video games.

 

[Haunted Serenity]

Makes sense on how it works. I'm suprised studies haven't been conducted with this before now.