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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Console Chat => Topic started by: Sparky on May 22, 2008, 01:30:37 PM

Title: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Sparky on May 22, 2008, 01:30:37 PM
So ya any stories out there of injuries while gaming?

No injury is to small or to big tell us all please!!!! :D whether new or old school, like tripping you younger brother with the genny wire controller or smacking a wii controller off your good friends head… hell there has to be a few out there.

My worst one just happened… and is pretty sad :P… just got myself Guitar Hero II (ya I am a late bloomer) and brought it to the best friends place, well we lost our mines and got right loaded fast and played the game hard!! The following day played it with my wifey as well who just loved it and then a day after that it happened… my right wrist got totally f*cked-large and no its not from doing the other thing as i do enough of that already :shock:  the pain was so bad i have been popping Advil and working the mouse at work nice and slow, Jebus i am so embarrassed i don' t even tell people how i did it, except you good folks here :P  yep i am officially an old man  :roll:
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Tatsujin on May 22, 2008, 03:30:17 PM
broke my small finger coz punched into a wall due to rage of playing street fighter II.
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: ceti alpha on May 22, 2008, 03:52:05 PM
I believe it was while playing Life Force on the NES. Either that or another shooter that switches between horizontal and vertical styles. It was back in the day, but I spent the whole day and night on a hard wooden stool playing it non-stop. All I know is that my tail bone killed for a week.

But one of the funniest things I've ever seen was while gaming during lunch hour at a friend's house. I think he was playing a game on 31 on 1, but it could also have been a Genny game. Anyway, he would tend to get excited while playing games, and if he died he would normally stand up and point and curse at the TV. Well, on this day he decided to put his baseball bat between his knees and the arms of the chair he was sitting in. When he died (I wish I could remember what game it was..) he tried to jump up and yell at the screen, but forgot about the bat-seatbelt he had rigged up. Instead of standing up, he flipped up in the air and backwards and landing on his back while still in the sitting position. After I made sure he wasn't in too much pain, I laughed my frakin' ass off. It was really one of the funniest things I have ever seen.  :lol:
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: CosMind on May 22, 2008, 04:13:19 PM
microwave burrito finished cooking + hardwood stairs + me wearing socks + not wanting to spend any more than a split second away from snes lemmings = broken big toe on my right foot.

ah, the wisdom of youth :P
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Tatsujin on May 22, 2008, 04:21:50 PM
one other time i played SF II, a friend of mine and me bulided up a pile of bricks in front of his house. so when i got insane by playin' SF II i just ran out the house and smashed those bricks with a 1-hit karate chop in pieces. once i gently sprained my hand :lol:
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Necromancer on May 23, 2008, 03:46:54 AM
Back in college, a few of us clowns would occasionally spend the wee hours of the morning hunched over our laptops, killing each other in Quake.  Some would try to throw a little body english into play (leaning and ducking in our seats), and during one liquor-fueled session, my buddy got a bit too excited and was bucked off his stool.  He hit his head on the desk on the way to the floor but was fortunately not seriously injured and only had a small knot, a large bruise, and a very red face.  Good times, good times.
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Joe Redifer on May 23, 2008, 03:54:55 AM
I think the best I can come up with is the blisters and eventual calluses I got from playing so much Street Fighter Alpha.  But that really isn't a true injury.

When I play current-gen games on my HDTV, my neck starts to hurt because of the way I lay on the sofa.  Does that count?
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Tatsujin on May 23, 2008, 03:58:32 AM
Does that count?

 :lol:

let's ask count dracula or count doku.
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: CosMind on May 23, 2008, 04:12:26 AM
Does that count?

 :lol:

let's ask count dracula or count doku.

i think count chocula would be the wiser in this case.
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: guyjin on May 23, 2008, 05:21:49 AM
Not a physical injury but:

I used to have this really embarrasing habit of 'chicken flapping' (my 'friends' nickname for it) when I got excited.
It looks really goofy. Since Videogames were the most exciting thing in my life, that's mostly what I would flap to.

This was not really a problem when I lived on the farm, and the only other people to see my flapping were my relatives, but when we moved to town (and I could have friends over) I got _so_ much shit over it.

To this day, I still sit on my hands when I think I might get too excited.  :oops:
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Ninja Spirit on May 23, 2008, 12:51:49 PM
At the 'cade back in 1993, despite properly wearing the boxing glove, I broke my hand playing Sonic Blast Man

I tried to be like the big guys who hit the pillow so hard and loud the whole arcade heard it


Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: ceti alpha on May 23, 2008, 01:01:55 PM
Not a physical injury but:

I used to have this really embarrasing habit of 'chicken flapping' (my 'friends' nickname for it) when I got excited.
It looks really goofy. Since Videogames were the most exciting thing in my life, that's mostly what I would flap to.

This was not really a problem when I lived on the farm, and the only other people to see my flapping were my relatives, but when we moved to town (and I could have friends over) I got _so_ much shit over it.

To this day, I still sit on my hands when I think I might get too excited.  :oops:

lolmax!!!  :lol: Don't get excited!
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Nintega Turbine Trio-CBS on May 23, 2008, 04:04:28 PM
Am I the only person here who has NEVER got hurt playing a video game?!  :shock:
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Turbo D on May 23, 2008, 06:01:41 PM
I haven't gotten hurt playing video games, but I have hurt other people because of them, lmao!  :twisted:
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Black Tiger on May 25, 2008, 02:16:55 PM
Other than the beginnings of blisters, mainly from street fighting games, mainly from 360 moves like Zangief... every once in a while I get something like shin sprints on a figer tip or two. Some repressed memories may come back to me soon, but I can't think of anything else at the moment.
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: nodtveidt on May 25, 2008, 04:23:59 PM
I once headbutted one of those third-party turbo fighting controllers for the SNES while playing one of the many Street Fighter II releases. Had six small bloody holes in my forehead. This was long before I decided my Saturn was pissing me off too much and I smashed its controller against the coffee table, sending shards of plastic everywhere.

Also, any time I play Mocap Boxing at the arcade, I end up a bit sore. Not quite an injury but still a lil painful...alas, it's worth it. :D
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: COUNT SMRIFNACK on May 26, 2008, 03:43:51 AM
These people seem to be having some problems with there Wii's.
http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/damage.php
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: SNKNostalgia on May 26, 2008, 06:11:19 AM
All I ever got was thumb blisters from the NES and SNES days.
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Digi.k on May 26, 2008, 10:57:35 AM
my thumbs gotten sore and red from the PSX controller.  Never really had this problem with any others..

also had headaches and dry eyes from sitting at the screen from long periods..
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: Ninja Spirit on May 26, 2008, 01:05:44 PM


also had headaches and dry eyes from sitting at the screen from long periods..

lol

My bottom left eyelid has been twitching quite a bit as we speak
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: MissaFX on June 19, 2008, 06:57:32 AM
When playing through Rez on the hardest diff, complete runthrough, without getting hit, multiple times to see how many I could do it...I have severely disabled my ability to use my right thumb the next day from the constant half second fire pulses you have to through the whole game with exact pressure to have the shots count up as fast as possible (PS2).  I have also really killed myself playing Ikagura marathons on the DC.

The closest thing to a real injury though would be when playing DDR drunk in the arcade I once slipped and really sprained my ankle.
Title: Re: Gaming Injuries!!!
Post by: rolins on June 19, 2008, 10:12:11 AM
I used form a row blisters on my fingers whenever I play Big Foot on the NES. During the side-scrolling races you had to move the d-pad left to right as fast as you can. The only way I could win was to rub my finger across the d-pad. I remember being in agony each time play the game at my friends house. Good times.