I never knew eating vegetables was so fun

[Youbetternot]

Chew to reload: Light-gun concept game tries to make eating vegetables fun, so basically you need to eat vegetables to reload.

The Tokyo Game Show isn't just triple-A console titles and new hardware. Oh no, there's Food Practice Shooter too. It's the work of Takayuki Kosaka from Kanagawa's Institute of Technology, with the noble aim of getting kids to eat more vegetables. How? By making vegetable eating an integral part of a light-gun game. The shooting part is pretty standard: you pull the trigger and shoot the veggie enemies on screen just like any point-and-shoot game you've played in the arcade. However, to reload, you need to pluck one of three vegetable-based snacks from the cups on the surface in front of you. (We'd assume real-life tests would use vibrant, fresh carrot sticks -- these snack substitutes were a little too tasty in their own right). Then you chew. The PC running the concept game connects to a head-set with a distance sensor pointing at your cheek -- you calibrate your chewing before you get into the game itself.

 

Pictures: http://www.engadget.com/gallery/food-practice-shooter-hands-on-at-tgs-2013/1071950/#!slide=1071951

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/21/chew-and-shoot-em-up-game-tgs-2013/

[Langdon]

I'd play it but I love vegetables so I don't think it's targeted at me.

[miyabwah]

Wow. What a time to be alive.

[techswede]

That would be the creepiest thing imaginable in a dimly lit arcade.

*bang bang bang* *crunch crunch crunch* *bang bang bang*...

Or if it's a more cartoony game

*KABLAM!* *OMNOMNOMNOM* *KABLAM*

Might be a way for parents to get their kids to eat vegetables. But still. kinda strange.

There might be some room for improvement, Fill the bowls with beef jerky or bacon.

Then shoot the vegetables... crap.. now i want one.. 

[totjup5]

I'll just chew on rocks

[MammothJerk]

one of the dumbest concepts I've ever heard of

[Mooshi]

But I live in Texas..the land of STEAK.