ARMS is shaping up to be one of Nintendo's biggest new IP releases in quite some time, and its motion-controlled gameplay should see plenty of players getting up from the couch to exchange virtual punches with the opposition. However, if you'd like to take things a little further then you might be interested in Jabii, a new Kickstarter project which reminds us an awful lot of Nintendo's combat title.
Jabii is described as a "friendly boxing game" which features extendable gloves that take the power out of the punch, meaning that nobody gets hurt. The gloves connect to a smartphone application which tracks your performance, and sensors on the headgear pick up successful hits.
The team behind Jabii are looking to secure DKK 500,000 (around £60,000) to create the system, and are offering a range of different funding tiers - one of which includes three helmets and three Jabii gloves for $233 / £180.
[source jabii.com, via kickstarter.com]
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And children will still find a way to use these to beat the snot out of each other.
HA HA! How rubbish does this look?
Looks fun
I could imagine these being used in trampolining places like FlipOut, Rush, Air Arena, and any others.
Earlier Spring characters from Dance Dance Revolution.
Jabii looks crapii.
I've always wanted to punch people from a distance.
I'll stick with the old fashioned way.
Looks fun but not over $200 fun.
In the 80's, this would this get an insane commercial with futuristic army general robots crushing each other while someone wales on an electric guitar. Kids everywhere would kick and scream until their parents bought it at toys R us for their birthday.
They would play it once. It wouldn't even break, but they would realize it "isn't like the commercial" (see also: Cross-Fire! You'll get caught up in the cross-fire. CROSS-FIRE!!!!)
Friends would come over and say "Sweet! You have Jabii!?!?!!?!?!" to which they would reply "yeah it's terrible" and they would all go ride bikes instead.
The end.
Sock-em Boppers, SOCK-EM BOPPERS more fun than a pillow fight!
These will definitely break in some way and then there goes $200............
Three helmets and three Jabii gloves; no cups for protection.
Kind of reminds me of the attachments on my old camera, only more hurty; ooooh imagine there were a camera version of this: you can bop the subject, and get a photo to go with it
Nice idea (or rip-off), way too expensive.
All aboard the Arms bandwagon! I think you are better of with the real Arms!
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