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The BluFit | www.exergamefitness.com

CHICAGO, IL — 8, 16, 24, 32, 64…how many players do you want active at once? The BluFit™ Multiplayer Wireless DDR System by Cobalt Flux, has revolutionized the exergaming market by providing the only wireless and truly interactive multiplayer dance system available. BluFit™ is the only multiplayer where players receive real-time feedback with their scores, which shows how they are performing in the game. This kind of interactivity provides a much more stimulating game-play experience than other systems that simply provide passive and arbitrary scores.

The BluFit™ is expandable. You can start with as few as 2 players and expand up to 64 live players in one single group. For even more affordable expandability, you can add practice pads to any system adding even more users to the game.

BluFit™ is designed to be used for many other software games. In addition to the first BluFit™ software release StreetFeet™, there will be additional new game titles released turning BluFit™ into a multi-functional exergaming system. The dedicated BluFit™ website will become a destination for players and trainers to track their performance data, to create user profiles and to chat with other players worldwide.

“We are ecstatic to partner with ExergameFitness.com to launch BluFit by Cobalt Flux, the only truly interactive multiplayer “Active Gaming” product on the market today. Combined with the stellar support and consultative implementation approach provided by Exergamefitness.com, BluFit will be an ideal solution for schools, YMCA’s and fitness centers worldwide” said Ryan Dean Hoggan, EVP of Cobalt Flux.

With BluFit™, set-up is a breeze. Simply park the cart, extend the monitors, plug in and turn on. The system can be set up and ready to use in the time it takes to distribute the pads. Clean-up is just as easy. By the time all the pads have been returned to the cart, it can be ready to roll away.

New features and software are downloadable. Users will be notified when new software titles and updates are available.

Tommy Seilheimer, VP of Exergame Fitness USA adds:

“The BluFit DDR system is a product that is greatly needed in the Exergaming market. It is a huge advantage for us when we can go to a customer like a YMCA, Health Club, or School, and tell them that we can get their entire gym class set up and active within minutes. The software is clean and easy to use, and the portability of the BluFit makes set up and tear down a snap. This is very important to many of our clients. We are happy to launch the BluFit on our website and affiliate websites around the world today.”

For more information, please visit our BluFit product page located here: http://www.exergamefitness.com/blufit.htm

About Exergame Fitness
Exergame Fitness – a Motion Fitness Company, is the world’s largest distributor & supplier of Exergaming, Exerlearning, Kids Fitness Products & Programming to YMCA’s, Schools, JCC’s. Park Districts, Health Clubs, Hospitals, Kid Zones, Family Entertainment Centers, Casinos, Government/VA and more.

Exergame Fitness provides Facility Planning & Installation, Grant & Funding Assistance, Program Design & Product Training, Turnkey Marketing Support, Free Layout Designs & Concepts, Detailed Programming Curriculums, Finance & Lease Options and more. Exergame Fitness offers the lowest prices on any of the products they carry backed by a 110% Lowest Price Guarantee.

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Kids "Active Gaming" at Lambeau Field

GREEN BAY, WI – Thousands of kids packed the atrium at Lambeau Field, home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers for the YMCA Healthy Kids Day on May 2nd 2009. Throughout the day, kids around the state were introduced to a popular new form of videogame exercise called “Exergaming”. Exergaming is a new form of exercise by playing video games that require movement and interaction on all different levels! Exergaming inspires physical activity through the most cutting-edge active gaming experiences. It is a fun and sustainable solution to working out.

Two popular Exergaming products that were provided by Exergame Fitness at the event was the T-Wall (Interactive Light Wall) and a Nintendo Wii dance and step system called Dance, Dance Revolution (DDR). The rules for T-Wall are simple but challenging: on a wall with numerous touch surfaces, red signals light up in sequence of varying positions and speeds. The user’s task is to deactivate the light as soon as it appears by touching the light on the wall. Act and react as quick as you can.

 The Wii DDR Multiplayer system by Cobalt Flux is a dance and step system that allows up to four competing users at once. Simply step on the arrows on your platform and match them up to the screen accurately. There are over 50+ songs and with a wide variety of practice mats by Exergame Fitness you can have up to 16 active players at one time.

Tommy Seilheimer VP of Exergame Fitness adds:

“Our main goal along with the Greater Green Bay YMCA is to raise awareness and promote healthier lifestyles for kids and families in the Wisconsin community. Active Gaming, otherwise known as Exergaming is a way for kids to do something they are already familiar with and relate too…playing videogames. The difference here is that they are required to actively move and react in order to participate in our games. That’s the healthy aspect of what we do.

Kids Playing DDR at the Packers Stadium

Combining videogames and exercise is the perfect merger for transitioning kids that are inactive and not getting enough daily exercise and activity, into kids that are competing with others, while playing fun interactive games that also require thinking and focus.”

Event organizer Bret Salscheider added:

“We’ve seen thousands of people come into Lambeau Field today and having lots of fun! We are extremely excited to have Exergame Fitness as a sponsor in this event and look forward to continually promoting a way that kids can stay active and healthy while having fun in our community, It is a very unique and creative way to get kids engaged.”

EVENT PICTURES & VIDEO:

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About Exergame FitnessExergame Fitness – a Motion Fitness Company, is the world’s largest distributor & supplier of Exergaming, Exerlearning, Kids Fitness Products & Programming to YMCA’s, Schools, JCC’s. Park Districts, Health Clubs, Hospitals, Kid Zones, Family Entertainment Centers, Casinos, Government/VA and more.

Exergame Fitness provides Facility Planning & Installation, Grant & Funding Assistance, Program Design & Product Training, Turnkey Marketing Support, Free Layout Designs & Concepts, Detailed Programming Curriculums, Finance & Lease Options and more. Exergame Fitness offers the lowest prices on any of the products they carry backed by a 110% Lowest Price Guarantee.

Exergame Fitness, New Jersey Nets Basketball and Toyots Cares Program

EAST ORANGE, NJ – The community of East Orange and the members of the East Orange Fellowship Civic Center will be able to get ‘fit’ in a new and exciting way starting today as the Center has been awarded a state of the art “Vault Activation Zone”. This room will feature top of the line interactive fitness and exergaming equipment such as: the Lightspace Play Floor, Exerbikes, Cobalt Flux DDR Systems, and the Makoto Sports Arena.

Exergaming combines the fun of video games and interactive technologies with the benefits of fitness; all with the goal of creating healthier communities and increasing physical activity.
Through donations by the Toyota NBA Cares Program, the New Jersey Nets, Sherwin Williams and Exergame Fitness, the E. Orange Civic Center was able to dedicate approx. 800 sq. ft. of old office space into an active gaming center.

To further enhance the experience of the members at the E. Orange Civic Center and to create a greater sense of community, Exergame Fitness created a custom wall mural featuring the Newark skyline, basketball players, and the NJ Nets logo.

The Vault is one of a kind in the state of New Jersey, but Exergame Fitness President/CEO Ed Kasanders is confident that it will not be the last, “Due to the overwhelming response we have received with the NJ Nets project, we are hopeful that the Vault at the East Orange Civic Center will serve as a model for other facilities in New Jersey and across the country.”

View the Active Gaming Room here!

The Vault’s Grand Opening is scheduled for this afternoon and will feature representatives from the following groups: the NJ Nets (Vince Carter, Devin Harris, and others), East Orange Mayor Robert Bowser, the NBA, Toyota, Sherwin Williams, and Exergame Fitness.

“East Orange was a targeted area that we focused in on, due to the community support it would bring,” said Jeff Scott, Community Relations Manager for the NJ Nets. “This center will be used by people of all ages, demographics and backgrounds. The East Orange Civic Center has proven that it takes a community Lead and will reach out to invite all participants.”

The Vault Activation Zone will be open to the public this week and all interested community members are encouraged to come by, get fit and have some fun!

About Exergame Fitness:
Exergame Fitness, a division of Motion Fitness, is located in Palatine, IL and is the global leader in the distribution of exergaming and interactive fitness products and services. Exergame Fitness specializes in creating customized solutions that meet the needs of their clients. Exergame Fitness is the sole proprietor of the “Vault Activation Zone” full room active gaming concept.http://www.exergamefitness.com/

About Toyota NBA Cares:
Toyota Project Rebound is a national program of 15 community rebuilding projects, which include court refurbishments and other initiatives. The effort started yesterday with a court upgrade and basketball clinic at the Boys & Girls Club of Lodi, NJ. New Jersey Nets Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, Richard Jefferson and Jason Collins pitched in to help repair the court damaged during April floods.About NJ Nets:http://www.nba.com/nets

Lightspace Play Floor - Active Gaming Product

Active Gaming is simple to describe, It is a new form of exercise obtained by playing videogames that require movement and interaction on all different levels. Videogames that use physical activity to participate.

iDance Wireless DDR System by Positive Gaming

making participants active while playing some of these exciting and engaging Exergaming products. We bring an the active element to this form of gaming and entertainment that is working around the world. What is really fun about what we do is that we work with the world’s top Exergaming manufactures and use their products to create a complete “active gaming room” that captures and houses all the exciting things that videogames has to offer.

Gamercize - Popular Active Gaming Product

Districts, Hospitals, and other locations alike. When a participant walks into one of our rooms they forget that they are in a “workout room” due to the “customized & exciting atmosphere” that promotes physical activity. We have done hundreds of locations and have seen first hand what Active Gaming can bring to a facility. We are talking life changing attitudes, healthier lifestyles and rewarding competitive play that promotes even more energy exertion from the user.

DogFight Exergaming Flight Simulator

The All New Dogfight Active Gaming Flight Simulator has Arrived!! Pedal your way to fitness in this realistic flight simulator that has multiplayer capabilities and amazing graphics! Kids love it!

Dogfight is a full featured flight simulator interfaced with a high end exercise bike. The user propels the plane by pedaling and controls it using spring loaded handles at his side. The game uses stunning graphics and sound to transform the user from the drudgery of the stationary exercise bike to the stimulating world of virtual flight. There are several worlds to explore including a painted desert, a fierce winter landscape, a tropical archipelago, a wondrous cityscape and even another world.

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Exergame Fitness USA attended Lambeau Field in Green Bay Wisconsin for the YMCA Healthy Kids Day event and brought the Twall and 4 player Cobalt Flux Wii DDR system for the kids to play! In association with the Greater YMCA of Green Bay, the event was a huge success with thousands of kids attending!

Lightspace Play at the TuscaloosaYMCA

TUSCALOOSA – AL

Avery Jones stood tentatively, clutching a red balloon to his chest. His eyes followed a cluster of red lights moving within the floor beneath his feet. He watched the cluster bounce from one side to the next, tightening his grip on the balloon with each change of the light’s direction.

The light continued to bounce until, finally, it set its course toward him. Before Jones could step out of the cluster’s path, it passed under his weight, exploding into tiny green squares.
Avery Jones was out.

This scene isn’t out of a science fiction novel – it happened Saturday afternoon at the YMCA of Tuscaloosa County, where Jones and a host of other children got their first look at “Lightspace,” a game in the center’s new Kids Zone.

After taking the stairs directly ahead of the front desk, the room of red, yellow and blue-painted walls opens up and is filled with video games that kids play with their bodies, not hand-held controllers.

Byron Langdon, YMCA sports director, said the YMCA needed a place that kids between the ages of 6 and 14 could hang out, since they are too big for day care and too young to use the facility’s fitness center.

Langdon said the idea for the new area came from a Chicago YMCA that recently added the same program to their facility with the help of Motion Fitness, a company that sells and installs the games.

After touring the Chicago YMCA, Langdon said he knew it would be the perfect addition to the new Kids Zone. With the help of the YMCA Men’s Club, the idea became a reality.

“Exergame Fitness” came in the first part of April and installed the games and we played with them for a few weeks to make sure everything was working,” he said.

The YMCA’s Kids Zone contains four areas of play. “Lightspace Play Floor” is an interactive floor surface made up of programmable light and pressure-sensitive tiles on a 10-square-foot dance floor. “Lightspace” has eight games, including Dodgeball, which Avery Jones enjoyed, and a game called “Bug Invasion” in which different colored tiles or “bugs” pop up all over the surface for players to stomp on to score points.

The “Makoto” area looks a bit like a boxing ring with three posts. Each post has a number of lights on it that, when lit, signal players to hit them with special gloves or sticks.

Across from “Makoto” are a pair of exercise bikes hooked up to a video game console, which allows players to control racing games with the bikes.

But easily the most well-known area to most kids will be “Dance Dance Revolution,” a popular arcade game in which players step on arrows corresponding to the music and cues on the screen.
Langdon said the games require movement, which helps keep kids in shape. “We’re trying to do something for child obesity,” Langdon said. “You know, all these games are fun, but you’re always moving.” Crystal Jones, Avery’s mother, said her children enjoyed the games.

“It was fun and it’s something that combines play and physical activity. They really enjoyed it,” she said.

Langdon said the Kids Zone is available to members for free and non-members must pay for daylong passes.

The YMCA plans on renting the space for birthday parties and special events.
“It’s been great,” he said. “It’s all active, so any time kids can jump around and hit stuff with sticks and not get in trouble, they’re all for it.”

About Exergame Fitness:
Exergame Fitness is the world’s largest distributor & supplier of Active Gaming products to YMCA’s, Schools, JCC’s. Park Districts, Health Clubs, Hospitals, Kid Zones, Family Entertainment Centers, Casinos, Government/VA and more. Exergame Fitness provides Facility Planning & Installation, Grant & Funding Assistance, Program Design & Product Training, Turnkey Marketing Support, Free Layout Designs & Concepts, Detailed Programming Curriculums, Finance & Lease Options and more. Exergame Fitness offers the lowest prices on any of the products they carry backed by a 110% Lowest Price Guarantee.