Injuries suffered while gaming?

Lafortezza

I've spilled hot coffee on myself when I banged the desk while playing Championship manager, and I'm a regular sufferer from "Dnc Elbow", like Tennis Elbow but suffered due to the crappy chairs in Dnc

anyone else hurt themselves while gaming?

seamus

Ya, every time I get the Street Fighter bug and play the game for hours on end, I usually loose most of the skin on the side of my thumb from doing fireballs and dragon punches all the time

Worth it tho.

monument

I can remember, when I was younger falling back of my chair a few times when playing games, now I have become more of a pro at it, swing chairs that is, not gaming

tman

Ya, every time I get the Street Fighter bug and play the game for hours on end, I usually loose most of the skin on the side of my thumb from doing fireballs and dragon punches all the time

lol, i've had to completely stop playing console games that don't have analogue support.

i think i fell off of a chair a few years back when i first played avp, not the best game to play when you're trying to wind down from the weekend

Dr_Teeth

I've got mild RSI in my right hand.. it only kicks in really badly if I do a lot of FPS gaming without a break though.

Teeth.

Rnger

A few mates of mine got 3 xboxes together yesterday and my right thumb is not in good shape as a result of my l337ness and getting 24 out of the 50 kills in a 6v6 dm . Probably about 6 hours of Halo will do that all right... everytime i press the spacebar it hurts

Worst thing I have ever done: Playing <shudders> Mario party, all the mini games are just tap the button as fast as you can cleverly disguised. One of em you gotta spin the stick as quick as you can. I used my palm and did a kind of clockwise "washing the windows" action. I must have misplaced it or did it too fast or something cuz I seperated my outer skin from the inner skin creating a kind of sag. A day or two with this thing getting bigger, I popped it, and my god did that sting as hell... I dunno what it was, a blister i guess.

Tusky

just bad eyesight ! and somtime strain in wrist !

Sarky

I've gotten arm cramps from staying in one position for too long, blurry eyesight for playing too long eyestrain from squinting into the shadows while playing Thief, and way back in the day of the Atari 2600 I played a sports game called Decathlon and the prolonged periods of stick waggling (this was way back, when such games were considered really cool)left the palm of one hand raw and oozing for weeks.

Oh, and in the arcades years ago, I was playing a game called Kung Foo Master or some crap, and a sudden flick of the joystick caught a part of my hand between the stick and in under the panel it was attached to, and sliced a piece of skin off. It was a nasty deep cut thing that took weeks to heal.

KdjaCL

Not me thankfully but a mate who wasnt a big games player and one of those people who feels on a platform game if they need the player to jump their hands must simulate the action.
Anyway he was playing wonderboy on C64 few years back and he had to do a surprise jump and he jumped (was sitting ona the bottom bunk of a bunk bed) jumps up cracks his head on metal frame lets go of the joypad which was moving with force but had his put on the wire so it propelled the pad faster into my other mates head who was sitting beside him.
Both needed 3 stitches each

kdjac

Ryo Hazuki

My left wrist gets weak from too much quake, I cant lift anything with it or do any work, If I just sat right or used a support thing I could probably avoid it.

Punching the desk when I cant get by a part, thats hurt a few times...

ykt0di9url7bc3

I completely split my hand playing Jungle Strike one day, second last map (took me a while to get there) and I'm running on fumes. I'm hauling ass to nearest fuel dump, dodging and weaving from enemy fire. I see the fuel and slow to a hover, suddenly I'm abushed from all sides and I try to take evasive manuvers and suddenly remembering that I need that fuel, I hover back and just about to grab the fuel when a SAM hits me from the side knocking me out of the way and i turn around blow it away winching the fuel up and I fall out of the sky.....no more lives, no more continues...


I broke the joypad off the table splitting my hand completely....




Abe's oddessy, the final part of it, i nearly broke my toe off the chair as i kicked it across the room...then to learn off my friend that there is 110 mudukons to save, I nearly hit him...

Johnny Gomez

I also have a Championship Manager injury, in the Champion's League Final when my team scored the winning goal. I jumped up and smacked my head off a light but as they say 'Pain is temporary but glory is forever!'

Retr0gamer

I remember the crappy snes D-pads gave me blisters the shape of arrows from to much SF2.

*NemesiS*

Originally posted by SearrarD
I completely split my hand playing Jungle Strike one day, second last map (took me a while to get there) and I'm running on fumes. I'm hauling ass to nearest fuel dump, dodging and weaving from enemy fire. I see the fuel and slow to a hover, suddenly I'm abushed from all sides and I try to take evasive manuvers and suddenly remembering that I need that fuel, I hover back and just about to grab the fuel when a SAM hits me from the side knocking me out of the way and i turn around blow it away winching the fuel up and I fall out of the sky.....no more lives, no more continues...


I broke the joypad off the table splitting my hand completely....




Abe's oddessy, the final part of it, i nearly broke my toe off the chair as i kicked it across the room...then to learn off my friend that there is 110 mudukons to save, I nearly hit him...

rofl
Yeah kinda noticed your temper somtimes in CS when ya start banging keyboards

Giblet

I got Street fighter thumb back in 1992, but i dont get it anymore from Street fighter. If I play Quake too much my left wrist will start to hurt due to it hovering over the keyboard.

Epitaph

The priest gave me a flaking when he found me playing DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball.

Sarky

Don't listen to him, it's all about the gameplay and has nothing to do with the state of the art breast-wobbling subroutines...;)

Littletinyman

Originally posted by Epitaph
The priest gave me a flaking when he found me playing DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball.

Hahah

Only injuries I've got whilst gaming are the classic Street Fighter thumbs, completely ****ed skin from doing dragon punches and fireballs on a D-pad.

ManWithThePlan

Yea those d-pads on the snes controllers were right f***kers.

Street fighter 2 and mortal kombat 2 were the worst culprits.

Rnger

Street fighter alpha 2 was the one i really bloxd me fingers wit. All those Alpha moves(or whatever they were called) ryu's super fireball, ken's firey dragon punch, akumas thing where he just drifts towards your opponent and the screen goes white then theyre on the ground with half health gone.... good times!

Giblet

LP LP -> LK HP :>
or Y Y B -> L on the snes ( I dunno why the changed it)

SUpAH AkuMa COmBO!

D nominater

Until reading these i thought that i was bad,
once my brother rented out a playstation game,went by the name of Ape Escape,extremely difficlult to finish without the aid of both analogue stick-the only way would be to be skilled in the art of zen playstation, anyway,
the left analogue stick didn't work properly and the rubber casing of it was gone so all that was there was hard plastic, despite an ever increasingly sore thumb i managed to get more than half way through it.

CombatCow

Not really an injurie but i did fall off the chair the first time i played doom ( dodging an imp's fireball )

COMBATCOW

Giblet

Originally posted by Combatcow
Not really an injurie but i did fall off the chair the first time i played doom ( dodging an imp's fireball )

COMBATCOW

You must be one of those "physical" gamers, who are very animated when it comes do playing games.

Horsefumbler

I've curently got a case of 'Street fighter thumb' but its not a problem. All the skin on the middle joint of my thumb is now formed a calous. it took a few blisteres to get here but now it doesn't hurt doing a dragon punch:D

btw which would u say is harder akuma's super combo or super moves that require double half circles of the d-pad like dhalsims yoga inferno

meglome

I have had slight repetitive stress in my right wrist... at least I think it was from gaming

CombatCow

Gilbert

You must be one of those "physical" gamers, who are very animated when it comes do playing games

Yup i also hide under my desk when im playin BF1942,to avoid snipers

COMBATCOW

Polonious

My thumb regularly goes numb for a few days after playing TOCA2 on the PS. It seems i've got it in my head that the more pressure i put on the button the faster the car will go....:rolleyes:

Doodee

CM causes me to get very aggressive, and once made me cry.
I got so aggressive once that i smacked the table themonitor was on and broke it in half, causing the monitor to collapse. Also, when i used to get beaten by lessers in DOA2 i'd end up hitting them.

Squall

Besides the usual worn thumbs.

I was given a black eye by my mom the first (and only) time she played mario cart on the SNES. She was whipping the control around yunno tryna get the car to turn(One of those "physical" players) and bam right into the face.

Then theres the time i dislocated a finger hitting the monitor, dont even remember what i was playing.(the monitor was fine btw)

Hmmmm, what else, oh ya the chronic neck pain, not caused by hours in front of the PC but it cant help.

hmm im sure theres something im forgetting, ah well itll come to me

Sangre

Originally posted by Squall
Besides the usual worn thumbs.

I was given a black eye by my mom the first (and only) time she played mario cart on the SNES. She was whipping the control around yunno tryna get the car to turn(One of those "physical" players) and bam right into the face.

LoL
I love 'physical player' who feel the need to steer the control pad in racing games.

My left thumb is always killing me after Jonuh Lomu rugby.

Giblet

Originally posted by Horsefumbler
I've curently got a case of 'Street fighter thumb' but its not a problem. All the skin on the middle joint of my thumb is now formed a calous. it took a few blisteres to get here but now it doesn't hurt doing a dragon punch:D

btw which would u say is harder akuma's super combo or super moves that require double half circles of the d-pad like dhalsims yoga inferno

Akumas Raging Dragon is easy once you memorise it. Dhalsims is more of a feat, as its more awkward on the thumbs.

pauldeehan

Pops off fake arm

Grenade blast in Goldeneye.

Makaveli

I had my lip burst.
Basically I was in a friends house and we were playing Golden Eye. There was quite a few of us there and the guy that owned the game was beating everyone. Then I beat him and he got so pissed off he punched me in the mouth.
I've strained my neck playing Pro Ev 2, just because of the way I sit. And I've hurt the joints in both thumbs thanks to Gran Turismo 3.
Also Mario Kart has seen me throw a control pad off a wall bounce back and hit me in the chest. Quite sore.
Finally CM has had me sprain my wrist by punching the wall after I was winning comfortably in the CL final and then going behind very late on and losing.

xx

Me and some friends used to bale around to one of our mates house's for extended bouts of Streetfighter 2 on the Megadrive. Things got kinda 'rowdy' from time to time. One of the guys used to ALWAYS pick Chun Lee and do the whole jump-lighting kick-jump-lighting kick routine which had us all foxed. Then outta the blue I picked Balrog and got 2 perfects on him in a row. There was such celebrations in the room and everyone was giving Chun Lee boy a slagging, when he looses the plot and went postal and dished out dead arms like a machine! We all hammered him back and there we were, all fcuked up and annoyed. Sort of spoiled the mood after that...
Other moments.... I tend to bite my PS2 joypads a lot outta frustration. Have punched the bedroom door, the walls, the floor...literally I've punched up my entire bedroom at times. I can still remember getting Spiderman for the PS1 from a friend - jesus, I cried at times I was that frustrated. And tried to rip my favorite black joypad in half and very nearly succeeded.
There was another time when I was playing Medal of Honour on the PC - there is a level with loads of snipers in a train yard. I was doing well, getting near the end, when a sniper just popped me, outta nowhere. I screamed "BAST@RD" at the PC, jumped out of my seat and was going to storm out of the room....only I tripped over the dog who was asleep in the doorway and landed on my face in the hall. Put simply, I totally lost the plot for about 10 minutes! Not pretty, especially when yer ma and da just s****** at you, while you're frothing at the mouth and ranting like a religious fanatic!

Retr0gamer

Final Fantasy 5 and Tactics do the same to me. I walk around the house like a mad man ranting and swearing at random for five minutes. It really isn't fair that you can't hurt the games if they annoy you.

Giblet

I'm guilty of dealing out punishment to my friends if i'm beaten in a game.

mooman_00

i suffer from ' when you cant beat something run blindly at it about a hundred times thinking this time im gonna make it' of course i dont and end up going ****ing mental at something, younger sisters usually get the brunt of it

azezil

Playing Colony Wars on the PS with no memory card and a crappy television, by the time i finished my eyes were dry, completely bloodshot, couldn't see for days

ykt0di9url7bc3

this isnt my injury! but...

on FF7 I had an 80hour game save (first time playing it and i was very methodical and enjoying the random battles)...I went off to a friends house for a few hours and when i came back i found my brother playing the game from the start...I was happy to see that he was going to start something special...i was beyond livid when i saw him overwrite my save game file...(I had only one file due to low space on the memory card)...

I kicked the **** out of him for a good 10 minutes...

Sarky

I forgot to mention the nasty knots in my shoulders from playing Aliens vs. Predator on the PC for any great length of time.


Also, I don't move my hands much when playing, and I get freezing and sore, stiff hands from circulation shutting down to those areas...

KdjaCL

I hit him as hard as I could. Just a dead arm... But like the asshole he was/is(hes notorious for being a ****in asshole to play against), he has to hit me back....

Anyone else find that distrurbing

Also most of the posts in this thread do prove that video games make you a psycho.


kdjac

Doodee

ehh, i never choked any1, or kicked em in the balls and ran off.

Hey, games may make u a psyco but atleast they entertain u aswell

Sangre

Correction: They dont make you a physco, they just release the physco in you.



(Well more like push him out, kicking and screams and bringing your vitals out with him)

Sarky

That's actually quite worrying. Seriously, how hard is it to use a bit of restraint and just utter something profane and blasphemous instead?

Check out "When CS players go bad", do you really want to end up like him?;)

Horsefumbler

most recently I've been experiencing a case of right eye muscle twitching. its more annoying than anything else but i think i'll lay off the pc games for a while now.

DapperGent

Originally posted by Rnger
Well anyways he circles our base killing me over and over and over.... about 6 times or something without me even taking his shield off him. I just cracked, I wouldnt usually take out anger in games on someone verbally or physically but I hit him as hard as I could. Just a dead arm... But like the asshole he was/is(hes notorious for being a ****in asshole to play against), he has to hit me back.... I just jumped up, put my hands on his neck like to choke him, and kneed him in the nuts soooooooo hard. He fell on the ground in pain. "Cya" and i went home.

You're an asshole.

CyberMart

Originally posted by *NemesiS*
rofl
Yeah kinda noticed your temper somtimes in CS when ya start banging keyboards

LOL
Forget the keyboards
What about the Headphones........WOW
lucky its his own

spooky donkey

well years ago i riped a huge chunk of skin off the plam of my hand. It stung like hell and took months to heal back up. There was blood too!

Anyway i was using one of those old black Atari joy pads with the orange button! The top had worn down to the bare metal and i riped my hand open while playing Daly Thompsons decathlon on the C64! Them joypads were tough but so did youre hands have to be to use them!

GIME

This isnt an injury but its a lot worse. I heard of a guy who was playing a pc game for about 86 hours non-stop. After three days of no sleep your body starts to not function properly [believe me, i konw] and he just died. it was mentioned in the paper but it happened a while ago.

Retr0gamer

Praetorian is like that. I remember the one and only time I beat him at starcraft he started making loads of excuses. I was rubbing it in though.

However I never hit him and he never hit me. Your just a psycho who should be put in St. Itas.