Video games that screwed you up physically?

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Oblivion caused me Nausea so bad I threw the game in the garbage for the X-box 360

Ultima Online when my house got looted and I was watching them loot it with no help from GM

NES system while using the Nintendo advantage stick my wrists got bigger.

RIFT when I played it on my first LCD monitor my eyes hurt so bad at work due to not being used to LCD monitors and
all the stuff going on in the game I later got used to the game.
 
I get some motion sickness from the headbobbing in half life 2
 
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Nope, can't say any have. Dead Space 2 tested my sanity, though. I got so disturbed during parts of the game that I had to stop playing.

I guess I did get tennis elbow on occasion during the Guitar Hero/Rock Band era.
 
I think I tripped once when trying to balance on the Wii Board or whatever that was. I remember the ski jump you had to really balance yourself.

Holy shit. Found a video of someone failing almost exactly as how I did minus the TV crash. I wonder how many TVs and people got fucked up by the Wii.

 
i got the croteam VR bundle.

i almost threw up everywhere from the first game i tried, serious sam 3 BFE.

turns out that VERY FAST paced games and VR dont really mix. (despite people recommending it)
 
Punching my door while in VR, cut my knuckles pretty good lol. Beyond VR games have never had a physical effect
 
capt_cope said:
System Shock 2 and the original DayZ mod both gave me hypertension.
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When it is quiet, I still can faintly hear those damned squirrel monkeys from System Shock 2.

But as far as physical effects from games, I have calluses on my left thumb from NES and SNES d-pads that still haven't gone away. Battletoads and Actraiser 2 are likely the culprits, maybe some Street Fighter.
 
Temporarily or permanently?

I get nausea from playing FPS, but that's more due to the fact that I don't play that often and it only usually happens during the first week I go back to an FPS, it usually goes away after that.

Permanently never, I never allow anything uncomfortable to go that far, at least not these days.
 
Back in the day, in high school, Doom had just come out. We were playing it that first weekend (after downloading it at 56k).

We had a lot of fun. One of us (if I said it was a friend would you believe me anyway) played it all weekend. With the lights out. Altec Lansing speakers cranked. Non stop. No sleep.

Monday morning in class... he inevitably nods off in the middle of class. Teacher doesn’t exactly catch him: he apparently jumps straight up out of his chair; screaming at the top of his lungs “DIE MOTHERFUCKING DEMON!”

After he caught his breath and realized it was only a dream, he stood there panting, I imagine in a cold sweat, and looks like a deer caught in the headlights. The other students crane to stare.

The teacher just calmly asks “Would you like to visit the nurse?”

Meekly, he barely whispers “Yes, please” and quickly gathers his belongings and steps out of the classroom.

Calculus was never the same after that. Neither was gaming.
 
Playing Subnautica on Oculus Rift.
It's the only VR game which caused nausea. And I was playing all kind of games including rollercoasters with no nausea.
 
I watched my girlfriend (now wife) play through all of Portal 1 in a single session. I've never had issues watching other people play games, but watching that made me physically ill. It's so bad if I even THINK about Portal, my stomach begins to turn and my head starts swimming... it remembers the pain. I don't think I can even begin Portal 2.
 
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GoldenEye 007, Jet force gemini and duke nukem 64, on Nintendo 64 caused me serious damage to my left hand thumb due the crap plastic joystick on the N64 controller.. sometimes the callus bled while playing, lol..
 
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Comixbooks said:
Oblivion caused me Nausea so bad I threw the game in the garbage for the X-box 360

Ultima Online when my house got looted and I was watching them loot it with no help from GM

NES system while using the Nintendo advantage stick my wrists got bigger.

RIFT when I played it on my first LCD monitor my eyes hurt so bad at work due to not being used to LCD monitors and
all the stuff going on in the game I later got used to the game.
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Pretty much every one as I got older. I try to only game on my 165hz display now and it helps
 
I got really bad tennis elbow when I was a young teen from too many hours of Diablo 2 back in the day. Doc made me take three months off one summer, so I had to fucking do nothing all summer due to shoulder sling.
 
Not me personally, but I've seen many a person get punched or hit by a flying controller thanks to Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, etc.

As much as I enjoy online gaming, it's tough to replace face-to-face raging.
 
Anything with fast screen movement. Hell, I can get vertigo from being on a single monitor system with a browser scrolling too fast.
 
Diablo 3 messed up my index finger from the constant clicking.

Damn it, I had to stop playing.

Got it for the ps3 to use the controllers and its not as fun. Oh well
 
worst and only injury is from 24/7 wow farming leggies in M+ as arms warrior. my arm just crapped out on me, first just loss of feeling and power. and some sense of pain and i rested for a while and all but... that is like 4 months ago i think? i still have like odd symptoms everywhere in my arm where it is like sligth burning feeling or ligth cold feeling. and for some fucked up reason i also got simmilar without precursor loss of power and strength in rigth arm too. after i had some form of Ps4 rehab with horizon zero dawn and later d3. it still not well, that burns deep in a gamers heart, im on welfare cuz i had like anxiety from 18 so it's my only hobby prety much. outside running riding bicycle, wich you guessed it 2 years ago i fucked up left legg and when it was healing i had some fucking crap in my hamstring last summer, slowly recovering from that one still but looking promissing atleast! so if im in luck after 2 year strech of couch potatoing hardcore mode i can be physically active wich just lift me up a notch for sure!
 
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worst and only injury is from 24/7 wow farming leggies in M+ as arms warrior. my arm just crapped out on me, first just loss of feeling and power. and some sense of pain and i rested for a while and all but... that is like 4 months ago i think? i still have like odd symptoms everywhere in my arm where it is like sligth burning feeling or ligth cold feeling. and for some fucked up reason i also got simmilar without precursor loss of power and strength in rigth arm too. after i had some form of Ps4 rehab with horizon zero dawn and later d3. it still not well, that burns deep in a gamers heart, im on welfare cuz i had like anxiety from 18 so it's my only hobby prety much. outside running riding bicycle, wich you guessed it 2 years ago i fucked up left legg and when it was healing i had some fucking crap in my hamstring last summer, slowly recovering from that one still but looking promissing atleast! so if im in luck after 2 year strech of couch potatoing hardcore mode i can be physically active wich just lift me up a notch for sure!
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WOW I suppose your brain wasn't sending signals to your arm could be a nerve problem I know old style monitors could mess a person up that way.
I mean I played Divinity Original Sin for like 15 hours and my left foot was swollen because blood wasn't being pumped up due to sitting for extended periods of time.
 
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Low FOV and frame rates tend to fuck me up but nothing serious so far. I am yet to try VR, though. I sense trouble
 
craigdt said:
Diablo 3 messed up my index finger from the constant clicking.

Damn it, I had to stop playing.

Got it for the ps3 to use the controllers and its not as fun. Oh well
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I admit I have gotten tendonitis in my index knuckle on more than one occasion playing Diablo.
 
Dying Light is the one game that gave me motion sickness. Playing even 5 minutes of it, I felt dizzy and nauseous, even after taking advice of expanding the FOV, disabling motion blur, and other settings. Too much parkour style game-play with unnecessary camera movements/angles.
First time I felt I had wasted money on a game (about $40).
 
craigdt said:
Diablo 3 messed up my index finger from the constant clicking.

Damn it, I had to stop playing.

Got it for the ps3 to use the controllers and its not as fun. Oh well
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I used to use cheap ass mice back in the day. That was until Diablo 2 came along and I wore out three of them in short order. After that, I knew the value of a good input device. I used to use one of the Logitech trackballs that you manipulate with your thumb. After several hours my thumb would twitch quite a bit. I went back to traditional mice after that.
 
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Pretty sure my eyes got worse after all the hours I put into that game
 
Ages ago I played a game on Super Ninetendo called Uncharted Waters. It was kind of a Sid Meier's Pirates! kind of game where you'd sail between cities to trade, fight other ships, etc. When you'd sail across the ocean, the ocean was made up of a couple of different tiles that would scroll across the screen at a regular pace. I was playing this in the dark basement, sitting too close to the TV late into the morning. When I finally quit, I shut off the game and my eyes started shifting left and right as if they were trying to make the world look like those blocks of ocean moving steadily across the screen. Luckily, when I woke up the next morning it had stopped. I still finished the game.
 
Rayman Legends on the PS4. My fingers ached from all the movements required to 100% that bitch.
 
7 years old, playing a track & field game on the Atari 5200, got myself a really good blister on my 2nd finger on my right hand, because of using the joystick so much.
13 years old, NES Controller, tried punching the shit out of it in frustration from playing Ninja Gaiden, bloodied up my knuckles good, didn't dent the controller, got even more pissed off, rammed the controller through the wall, fractured a bone in my thumb in the process.
Since then, I calmed way the F down when playing games.
 
7 years old, playing a track & field game on the Atari 5200, got myself a really good blister on my 2nd finger on my right hand, because of using the joystick so much.
13 years old, NES Controller, tried punching the shit out of it in frustration from playing Ninja Gaiden, bloodied up my knuckles good, didn't dent the controller, got even more pissed off, rammed the controller through the wall, fractured a bone in my thumb in the process.
Since then, I calmed way the F down when playing games.
 
Any of the early sprite based 3D FPS of the 90s. Those games made me nauseous beyond belief. I can play them now...but at the time I couldn't. I couldn't actually start playing FPS until Quake/Unreal came out. Mainly, Quake 2 and Half Life.
 
My Dad had a problem with his elbow. It turned out to be bursaitis, which the doctor told him was just "tennis elbow". He told me, "More like Ninetendo elbow." IIRC, he got it playing the original Zelda.
 
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