How bad have you, the Escapist community, hurt yourself while playing videogames?

Thanks Fire Daemon

- Not a bad topic, just cleaned it up a bit - Mods

... I'm really not sure how to feel just now.

On topic, I guess I'd say calloused thumbs from playing the hell out of Super Street Fighter II on the SNES. Also, I got this really bad pain at the base of my thumb for a few days right after Super Mario 64 came out. Wasn't used to a thumbstick back then.

Sometimes I get blisters on my fingers from too playing my xbox too much. Especially in those games that have you mashing the buttons ridiculously. Though back when I played PS2 I got them a lot more often, which I take to mean the buttons were harder or something. Or maybe my fingers were too young and soft and vulnerable.

Also I get headaches or dizzy or whatever if I'm staring at my computer screen too long. Especially when I get back from vacation or sometime when I haven't played videogames for awhile, which I think is pretty cool since it means I build up a temporary immunity to it. Or I just get used to it. Sounds cooler the other way.

Also my (right) wrist starts to hurt sometimes, and my neck hurts if I keep it in one position too long. But watching my TV while I'm on my computer helps since it makes me turn my head sometimes to look at it.

I feel sorry for your sticky computer.

Anyway I've had a friend get a black eye because he beat another friend so badly that the beaten friend threw the controler at victor's head.

ObnoxiousTwat:
I feel sorry for your sticky computer.

Anyway I've had a friend get a black eye because he beat another friend so badly that the beaten friend threw the controler at victor's head.

ha....ha >->

i had a Tv fall on me while gaming...., i broke its fall

well I was playinng Diablo 2 one time before me character lost many levels and well I kinda died, painfully, and I couldnt beat the boss by my self without grinding so I punched my mniter, and broke my keyboard on my desk.

Anger issues FTW... no anger isses that cost you upwards of two thousand dollars just in computer damages, FTL.

Ya popped one of my fingers out of location and shredded the skin from the innards of the comp and the glass. I dislike losing.

I pulled a muscle in my hand the 1st time I played psycho billy freakout on expert.

The N64's hard plastic analogue stick. Mario Party. The discovery that your palm can twirl the analogue stick faster than your thumb can.

A few days later, I no longer had palms. My fingers were connected to my wrist through an enormous throbbing blister. Not fun. But at least I got a high score. Which my older brother promptly demolished, by using the same technique with the wonderous addition of a rubber glove. Bastard.

raw almost bleeding palm from playing Mario party. (10 points for who ever guesses the mini game that did that)

It's not really a videogame, but you heart my eyes with your way of saying you

My friend broke his arm while playing an arcade game, I wasn't there, don't ask me how it happened.

i got a blister on my right thumb while abusing the left Haymaker in Fight Night Round 2 on PS2. and i almost accidentally garrotte-wired my friend when he crossed in front of me during wii boxing :P

i never had a videogame realted injury but one time i got a sliver through two of my fingers and i couldn't play games for 2 weeks

I don't intend to be a Grammar Nazi, because I'm not, but if you want to become a valued member of the Escapist you need to work on your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

sheomad:
hey how bad have u guys hurt ure self playin video games i personaly use my right hand to
write use the mouse on the computer and masterbate so my wrist is pretty jacked up

How I would have written this:
How bad have you, the Escapist community hurt yourself while playing videogames? (I wont include the masturbate stuff as that is in bad taste)

You see, what I did there is use proper capitalisation and I spelt things correctly, instead of using the quick (and very lazy) technique of using single letter words such as "u".

I advise downloading an Internet spell check. Mozilla Firefox has one built in but I use IEspell. Don't put all your trust in these however as you still need to re read your posts to make sure they make sense.

It comes down to putting effort in your posts. Put the effort into your post and people will respect it, don't put the effort into it and people wont respect it and they will not respect you.

The same goes for some of the posters in this thread.

Guitar Hero Fingers. 'Nuff said.

During a Halo 3 CTF match, I went through a frustration induced spasm that squeezed my testicles together. I was hurting for the next hour. The sad part is that this wasn't the first it happened. I fear that it won't be the last.

carpul tunnol (i don't know how to spell it) from a 32hr marathon of BF2.

When I read the title of this thread......Owie....

Also When I lost my voice playing death metal on a modified GH3 game

Beowulf DW:
During a Halo 3 CTF match, I went through a frustration induced spasm that squeezed my testicles together. I was hurting for the next hour. The sad part is that this wasn't the first it happened. I fear that it won't be the last.

dude wear a cup.

When it comes to old battlewounds, three come to mind

Way back when I was just a wee lad, back in the days of yore, when dragons roamed the high seas, battling serpents, and it was socially acceptable to beat your wife on the steps of town hall, I had an Atari 7800, with Donkey Kong. If you've seen King of Kong, you know how OCD you need to be to seriously play that game. And I was. I played it day in, day out. I'd pause the bastard and come back in the morning when mum threatened to beat me with a stick if I didn't go to bed. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, however the 7800 controllers had a screw-on thumb-stick. This thing looked and felt like a glass lens on top of a stick. I didn't realise at the time, but as I used that, it was tearing away at my thumb, leaving a crescent shaped callous in its wake. Due to obsessive gaming, this was only noticed when, after sending the ape crashing down to the unforgiving floor of the construction site for the umpteenth time, the callous actually tore off and started pissing blood everywhere.

Needless to say, after I healed, I was so far out of the zone that hung my head in shame and put my Kong days behind me forever.

Then there's your classic UT Instagibs match, 32 players, racing to 200 frags. The old sex life was shattered after that one.

Finally, there was Rockband. After a hard night of drinking and plastic guitaring, I reached the pinnacle of my plastic guitar career, when I cranked it to expert and nailed every song for about 3 hours with 95%+. Unfortunately, 5 fingered, non-korean hands were never meant to move that fast and I still feel the pain from that fateful day

Well I have cut up my hand on a light bulb playing wii bowling.
Also I had a problem with the original xbox whre I would click a trigger and part of my skin would get stuck in it that hurt like hell.

Monkeyman8:

Beowulf DW:
During a Halo 3 CTF match, I went through a frustration induced spasm that squeezed my testicles together. I was hurting for the next hour. The sad part is that this wasn't the first it happened. I fear that it won't be the last.

dude wear a cup.

I honestly didn't think of that...

Freakout456:
Well I have cut up my hand on a light bulb playing wii bowling.

Wha...? Why were you holding a lightbulb?

thumb soreness from constant Shoryukens

Monkeyman8:
raw almost bleeding palm from playing Mario party. (10 points for who ever guesses the mini game that did that)

If it was the first one, I'd have to say the game where you're on the stationary bike trying to turn the lightbulb on to banish the ghost. I couldn't play games for like a week after that thing.

Whoever designed the texture of the N64 thumbstick should be shot...and then two more times for good measure.

I have suffered with you guys. Those SNES controllers were hell on my thumbs. Rapid fire Hadoukens would win me a match, but I would feel it when the blisters came. Thankfully, I no longer get those. I now have the bronzed, calloused hands of a modern gaming god.

The most memorable injury was last year, when I found one of those arm wrestling machines in the local arcade. After you complete a round, you have the opportunity to get a high score based on how much force you could impose on the robotic arm of the game.

I tore my bicep, and it took a while to heal. But you know what? High score. Totally worth it.

This didn't happen to me, but I caused it.

Anyway, a friend and I were playing the Wii Sports boxing, and I went for a vicious upper-cut and somehow the controller wrist strap snapped and flew off an hit my brother in the eye.

Downright hilarious.

UberCharlie:
I have suffered with you guys. Those SNES controllers were hell on my thumbs. Rapid fire Hadoukens would win me a match, but I would feel it when the blisters came. Thankfully, I no longer get those. I now have the bronzed, calloused hands of a modern gaming god.

The most memorable injury was last year, when I found one of those arm wrestling machines in the local arcade. After you complete a round, you have the opportunity to get a high score based on how much force you could impose on the robotic arm of the game.

I tore my bicep, and it took a while to heal. But you know what? High score. Totally worth it.

Hadoukens were difficult on the thumbs

but Shoryukens were.. insane if you chained them, because they hurt the tip of the thumb AND the joints :P

I've fallen off my chair laughing when playing Halo 3 and i threw a plasma, it hit another explosion and rebounded onto my laughing ass.

Classic

Mario Party 64 on the minigame when your kayaking down the river and you need to rotate the joystick to keep it centered this lead to no skin left on my right palm.

Add another tally mark for Mario Party. The Dreamcast's super raised d-pad also would start to cut my thumb up after extended sessions with Soul Calibur.

I got carpletunnel from Metroid Prime 3. Who's idea was it to make you fire once every time you hit the button...and why are plasma bolts weaker than rolled-up newspapers?

Legend of Zelda, NES. B Thumb.

My thumb had a B in it.