White House courts devs to make healthy eating games

I do have to agree with Mrs. Obama on one thing: Games are powerful to the youth.

For example, Trojan sales would skyrocket if they were advertised in Modern Warfare 2. Not saying they would EVER use them, just to show their friends (if they have any).

What if the game was all about blowing up McDonalds? And the final boss is Ronald?

i eat games?

Good luck with that.

Don't forget to slip in some subliminal "Obama is your friend!" messages...

Yeah heres a way to fight childhood obesity, get better parents.

"You know better than most the power of games to deeply engage our nation's youth."

Apparently she knows better than those who know better than most.

That's cool. I wish I had her brain :(.

yay stimulus money :/

Don't people that smoke (like you Mr. President) eat less...maybe the game should be about encouraging smoking and star Barry Obama.

Ms. Obama...keep your own house in order and stay out of mine.

http://blogs.clarioncallnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/obama_eating.jpg

http://maaadddog.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/obama-smoking.jpg

http://students.washington.edu/luthor/myspace/obama_smoking.jpg

It would be much easier if the white house issued a quick press release:

"Eat LESS, exercise MORE..." says White House

inb4 9000 armchair pundits

Just nationalize the game companies and get it over with.

How about just kick your kids asses outside?

So far games have definitely been a part of the problem. Is it a coincidence that obesity have skyrocketed since Pac-man was released? I think not.

So its the governments job to parent now? I sincerely doubt, games aimed at exercising, dieting, etc would make kids want to eat better or exercise anymore than they do or dont already. As usual, this all lies with the parents responsibility. If the government wants to do something, how about aiming for educating parents. They could start with the parents who are dependent on the government now. Simply this, if you take all these "entitlements" the government gives people, which soon could include health care, then you have to follow these set of rules and take these classes to educate you and help you change your ways.
They should do that with health care too. If you want to take the government run health care, fine, but then the government should have the right to keep you from stuffing your face with ice cream every day. More importantly, the government should leave the rest of us alone who dont want their crappy health care and want to keep our the current plans we have.
We already have far too many entitlement programs as is, but is it any surprise this administration and people like Pelosi want to create more programs? Hmm, im sensing a theme here. They want us to have to rely on them. Sorry, no thanks.

Some of the readers over at kotaku had much better ideas, like fix the economy so people can actually afford to eat healthy.

Right. They can also fix the job situation like they said they were going to do. They said how long ago now, that they will start focusing on jobs. That lasted about a day before they went right back to dealing with how they were going to push through a health care bill that no one has seen and most Americans dont want.

On your point though, do you really think people would eat any healthier if they had more money in their pocket? I doubt many would. There are healthy option out there already that are affordable. If people arent going to eat healthy now, they wont eat much healthier if they had more money. Theyd probably use the extra money to by new gadgets and gizmos.

No need to down vote him, I think he was being sarcastic. Or atleast I hope so.

Damn the reply system. This was suppose to go under Centros nationalization comment.

Kspraydad,

Dont you get it. The thing in Washington is do as I say, not do as I do. Its okay to be hypocritical in DC apparently. Especially when you are a celebrity President.

this is all we need, the White House to spend more cash on a program that will NOT WORK !!!

This kinda stuff just doesn't work. They need to put this kinda stuff into games in an unobtrusive way, so it seems "normal." Worked for smoking. Just drop some carrots into the next Heavy Rain, or have Dante toss someone some fruit in DMC5 and go, "An apple a day... *hammy wink*".