College of Gaming: Physical Education

All courses in the college of gaming include some amount of physical education. A strong body leads to a strong mind and vice versa.

Old platformers - Mario, Sonic and their numerous clones would help hand eye coordination during the late 80s to early 90s. Complex fighting games pushed hand eye coordination to the limit, where one would time his button presses and count the number of frames on screen. First person shooters and RTS wargames also improved this coordination, testing one's reflexes against someone else's.

Newer games for the Wii also include more physical based activities like Wii Fit and EA Sports Active. However these are not supposed to be a real replacement to purely physical workouts. They can help in the physical condition of most couch gamers who spend most of their time sitting or lying around.

All twitch based games - shooters, real time strategy games, platformers, racing and sport games are good sources of hand eye coordination improvement. Hand eye coordination carries over to real life sports such as table tennis.