Fan Turns Mario Kart 8 Into Fitness Game With Exercise Bike & RingCon

Fan Turns Mario Kart 8 Into Fitness Game With Exercise Bike & Ring-Con

The chaotic race tracks from Mario Kart 8 get a fitness makeover, with a little help from an exercise bike, a Ring-Con and one clever YouTuber.

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Fun and fitness come together in Mario Kart 8, as one fan has combined an exercise bike with Nintendo’s ring-con from Ring Fit Adventure for the ultimate pulse-raising racetrack experience. Mario Kart continues to be one of Nintendo’s most popular franchises. With eclectic circuits, frenzied gameplay, and the infamous blue shell, fans keep returning to the chaotic races within the Mushroom Kingdom.

For many, with the current climate in the world, taking the time to focus on health and fitness has been a priority. This is something that many games from Nintendo do cater towards, with Nintendo releasing Wii Fit in 2007 and Ring Fit Adventure for the Switch in 2019. On the list of Nintendo games that provide a sweat-inducing workout, however, Mario Kart 8 is not one of them. That is until now.

One entrepreneurial YouTuber has come up with the ingenious idea of combining Mario Kart 8’s gameplay with an exercise bike and a Nintendo Ring-Con to create a fun (and exhausting) workout. After trying and failing to get fit with previous Nintendo offerings, mechachoi decided to take matters into their own hands. The result – the Labo Fit Adventure Kart Kit. While pedalling on a modified exercise bike, sensors will pick up how fast the Mario Kart 8 player is going and translate that speed across to the onscreen kart. Then, while using the Ring-Con to steer their kart, players can squeeze the sides of the Ring-Con together to release items on their unsuspecting rivals. mechachoi promises that this will be a workout for “your arms, your core, your legs, and (most importantly), your mind”. The use of the Golden Mushroom item from Mario Kart 8 appears to be a real burner when used with the Labo Fit Adventure Kart Kit due to the repetitive squeezes that are required to activate it.

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This is not the first time that creative Nintendo fans have used their skills to adapt Nintendo’s ring-con to control other Switch titles. Last year, one Legend of Zelda fan used the combination of a ring-con and a mini trampoline to battle their way through Breath of the Wild. In this case, climbing towers looked to be Breath of the Wild’s equivalent to Mario Kart 8’s Golden Mushroom, as multiple steps and a lot of stamina were both required to reach the top of these Hylian landmarks.

These inventive ways of experiencing some of Nintendo’s best-selling titles are both fun and functional. Perhaps next, fans will be treated to an Animal Crossing Ring-Con crossover. Although, maybe digging up floors with shovels and swinging nets indoors would not be the best idea.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/mario-kart-8-exercise-bike-ring-con/

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