Family Trainer 4 Jogging Race (New)

My legs were definitely feeling it the next day after a session on this mat—it’s a surprisingly solid workout for an old Famicom cart. The way it makes you physically jog in place to move your character is way more engaging than just pressing buttons.

The mat-based controls really make you work for it, and the way it foreshadows the Wii's motion games is wild. I got a genuine workout in my living room, and the cart itself was in clean, playable shape.

It's a blast from the past that actually works—the mat picks up my steps perfectly for an NES-era peripheral, and the jogging prompts feel like a proto-Wii Fit. The way it pushes you to keep pace makes for a surprisingly solid cardio session, even if it's a little goofy by today's standards.