Tim Schafer's baby and a Balance Board: a perfect Wii Fit

Posted Jun 12th 2008 9:30AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff

Normally, we take exception to the idea that Nintendo games are for babies, but when the baby in question is the newborn baby of adventure game legend Tim Schafer, we take it as a compliment. Look how well the Balance Board works as a display stand for gaming celebrity infants!

But that's not all! Realizing how awesome it is to measure things other than ambulatory humans in Wii Fit, Schafer had the game calculate his young daughter's balance and Wii Fit Age. The poor kid is eight (in Wii Fit years) and underweight (in Wii Fit BMI). We wonder how a copy of Full Throttle would fare! Actually, we don't, because even a boxed copy of the game with the manual and jewel case would be much too light for Wii Fit to even register, but go with us here.

Gallery: Wii Fit

Tags: balance-board, tim-schafer, wii-fit

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

6-12-2008 @ 10:11AM

Garu said...

That kid hasn't exercised a day in her life!

6-12-2008 @ 11:22AM

Jason Chapa said...

I thought the lowest age you could enter was 2 years old.

6-12-2008 @ 1:43PM

Daniel said...

My two-year old actually was able to get a Wii-Fit age of 2 (with a little help). It was difficult to get him to stay on the board though, he would keep running to the TV to point at something.

6-12-2008 @ 11:42PM

bhengh said...

Full Throttle: I think that game would work very well on the Wii.

6-13-2008 @ 10:59AM

Sisyphus said...

Dammit Jim, make a Wii game! And name your next kid Manny!

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