Simple question:

Have you ever hurt yourself playing a video game? I want good answers.

Me....I busted my knee on DDR and dropped a table on my hand playing Final Fantasy VII.

Physically: Nothing worse that just sore wrists and the like.

Mentally: Played so much Pokémon Blue when I was ten that I was starting to hear it's theme tune even when I wasn't playing it or in an event nothing to do with Pokémon. It was all in my head.


Here's something of a trait of mine I notice when I game. After a while when I played to much, my ears go all red. No other part of my body does that, just my ears.

AQua_ng
After a while when I played to much, my ears go all red. No other part of my body does that, just my ears.

Have you checked to make sure? Seriously Aqua, I think this calls for a session of nude playing while surrounded by mirrors.

ewwwwwwwwwwww...


The ends of my thumbs would hurt so much that I had to make special prosthetic thumb covers for myself so that I could keep playing... My eyes would turn red as all the little capillaries burst, (that STINGS so much!). I’d get terrible migraines that would leave me in bed for a whole day and a night –terrible pain in my head, nausea, vomiting. I couldn’t close my eyes at night without everything I thought of being rendered like an early 90’s anime themed fantasy RPG.

Good times, good times…

ozoneocean
The ends of my thumbs would hurt so much that I had to make special prosthetic thumb covers for myself so that I could keep playing...

HA-ha... that happend to me also during the NES and SNES days. I put layer and layer of band-aids to protect my thumbs.

Tragic.. :wink:

VegaX

ozoneocean
The ends of my thumbs would hurt so much that I had to make special prosthetic thumb covers for myself so that I could keep playing...

HA-ha... that happend to me also during the NES and SNES days. I put layer and layer of band-aids to protect my thumbs.

Tragic.. :wink:

oh yeah. I used to get blisters on my big thumbs playing SNES games of all kinds.

actually at times I still get that playing on my playstation 2 if I aren't careful and get competely deep into the game itself.

and one time I got sores on my wrists and fingers playing clock tower for SNES on the emulator.

My knees really hurt from playing DDR.

Never hurt myself playing DDR or ITG, but I have badly injured my hand playing SSBM.

Basically, I picked up the habit of slamming the handle into my palm every time I died.

It started hurting after a while.

I got a serious hand cramp playing Dead or Alive Volleyball...

Okay, okay, sorry; easy joke.

I once popped my thumb out of place in the arcade. I forget what it was I was playing, it was some fighting game. Years before, I'd broke my thumb in a stunt man accident, and it popped over the wrong way because I jammed down to hard. I had money on the game, so I couldn't say anything, I had to beat the guy I was fighting, then worry about my thumb. I'm pretty sure I beat that guy, since I don't lose at video games. Even with a bone fracture, I can still kick ass. It was a fighting game, maybe Tekken 4 or 5. It was about a year ago.

Me and my brother used beat the crap out of each other whilst playing anyhting 2 player. It was a fair tactic.

Also twisted ankle on some shoddy dance mat thing. Right now I have a sore finger from to much mouse click.

I beat Oliver at super mario kart 64 and he beat me up. ouch.

I once played morrowind for so long i forgot how to walk, much falling ensued.

Mimarin
I once played morrowind for so long i forgot how to walk, much falling ensued.

ha-ha. that reminds me of the time went I used to play so much everquest that I would start talking like my character and such.

"Thou shall take me to the house of a thousand books, mother! For I need to complete an quest regarding the history of the man who thought he was emperor of America! Oh, and if it wouldst not trouble you so much, thou could give me a ride to the encampment of many stores?"

Took her a while to realize that I meant the Library and that I was working on a school assignment. and after that that I would also like a ride to the mall.

Trust me, never try using the controller with your mouth. Pain follows...

Stain
Trust me, never try using the controller with your mouth. Pain follows...

Normally tounge ache.

When Street Fighter 2 first came out for the SNES, my friend Nathan and I played until we wore away the top layers of skin on our thumbs, which turned into huge blisters. Then we put Band-Aids on them and kept playing.

Pretty much every video game system I have has fallen on me at some point or another. My friend Anna once strangled me during Harvest Moon, for reasons I can't quite remember. She punched me every time I beat her in Super Smash Bros and she hit me over my head with a controller for talking during a cut screen. I think that's more related to her personality than to video games, though.

I played counterstrike: Source once, the mental scaring never went away.

this happened one time when my friend was sleeping over:

We had decided to stay up all night and my friend went to sleep while I was playing dragon warrior. I fell asleep and fell off my bed.

I landed on a glass and broke it with my shoulder. I didn't really hurt myself, It did hurt though.

Dual Shock hurts your hands after 48 hours of continuous play.

.: Myxomatosis :.

I learned that playing DDR on a bare floor in socks trying do do that

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move is never a good idea that mat slide out from under my feet and I hit my head on a coffee table was out for a couple of hours.

My friend is one of those people who swings his body while playing games. One time he Punched me in the face while playing Halo 2 at a LAN.

Other than that just blisters, hurt knees, hurt plams (hit a crappy control against my plam), and cramps thumbs.

Tater Salad
My DS Lite opened a bit then closed shut while I was masturbating with it. :O

geeez....you should know to open it ALL the way up first....

masturbate with an Open DS? you would have to have one hell of a bucket cunt for that.

Video game injuries, hmm?
I've got a big list, but i'll just post some of my highlights here:

-When I was 6, I was playing Super Mario, and I fell sideways and got my head lodged between a desk and the wall

-I got electrocuted slightly during a thunderstorm while playing some ninja game.

-Everytime I beat my friend in Halo, Mortal Kombat, etc., He would hit me really hard. after a while, it really started to add up.

-every time I play with my brother, we yell at each other about cheap shots or stealing each other's supplies.
one time he walked away with a bite mark and a black eye, while I got a broken nose

-one time, while playing Pool (i know it isnt a video game, but this one is funny.) my friend hit the ball, sending it leaping off the table directly into my groin.

-After playing Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Condemned: Criminal Origins, And F.E.A.R., I felt as if my computer was possessed and plotting to kill me, as well as being thoroughly afraid of dark places for a good few weeks.

When I was 10, I beat the Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past... so decided to try and make it more challenging, so I'd hang upside-down using the top bunk of me and my brother's bunk bed.

One day, I was playing on Turtle Rock (yes... I got THAT far... upside down) and my brother pushed my feet off the edge, and I fell and hit my head.

Had a headache for a while after that >>

I did I was playing Mario Party 7 and got a blister on my index finger for tapping the A button too fast. The mini game was Pokey Pummel. Well, 7.5 seconds for a blister. wow

yeah i know a bunch of people who had gotten blisters form mario party games...

I remember when Metal gear solid was new I played it so much when I closed my eyes I was fighting the ninja, that may not have had physical effects, but it was scary as shit.

When I was playing House of the Dead III Arcade machine, there was a one time where I had to aim it through the "sights". I kept on pumping lead and the next thing I knew my arm started to hurt like hell.

And I still died in the game. Damn crazy sloth.

Also, does the heavy weight from Time Crisis guns count as well?

Edit: There was also one time where I just collected all 100 hidden packages in Grand Theft Auto III. Before saving, I thought I'd also do the fire missions before quitting. When I did the fire mission trick (Where you start the replay and the fire gets put out automatically), the game froze.

The game goddamn froze.

After force-closing the game, I started banging my hand on the wheelchair arm so hard that... well, it hurts. I put a lot of effort trying to find them all. There goes all the hidden packages of Northern-Half of the Shoreside Vale.

I was playing mario party 4 (I believe) when we were doing the one where you have to escape from the ghost on skateboards. My nail got caught in the A button. I am not kidding.

For another humilating story, I was doing DDRE on standard where I ran up against an impossible combination. Upon attempting to do it I found out why they say wearing socks while playing was not a good thing. I fell backwards onto the dog. He didn't bite me as much as he blasted out my eardrums by a pure doggy-shriek of fright.

As a sidenote I was playing Battlefront on a wireless while standing on my couch. I don't think I need to say anything else on the matter. XD