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I thought gamer's thumb was a bitch. ???

Posted Nov 16th 2006 3:22PM by Darren Murph

While there's always the chance you'll be bludgeoned or shot up while holding down the fort for your chance to snag a Playstation 3, those who take the (presumably) easier route and grab a Nintendo Wii may be buying an accident waiting to happen. Those oh-so-cautious execs over at Wally World have already passed on their chance to install Wii demo kiosks due to "safety concerns," and even those testing it out in GameStop will be keenly watched. In preparation for Wiiday, 1UP has sacrificed some of its own men and women to ensure that all that pent-up excitement (not to mention the effects of sleep deprivation) doesn't lead to a Wiinjury. Although the big N fully expects everyone grasping a Wiimote to buckle up (to their wrist) first, we all know that's not likely to happen -- so you should probably take precautions to avoid getting butterfingers, tennis elbow, entangled, strangled, cancer (saywha?), and a whole host of other potential wounds.

I've been getting pains up my left arm after I play for a long time. I hope it isn't RSI.

I have never been injured playing video games.

Sore thumbs long ago.

i picked sore thumbs cuase thats closest to the worst to happen so far. i have gained callouses on my fingers due to guitar hero and guitar hero 2. recently have grown one on my thumb for gripping the guitar neck...

Sore thumbs from Mario Kart years ago. Also I was probably dangerously close to getting that thing that happens with your wrist when Rome: Total War first came out and I played it 35 hours a day.

There isn't a choice for me since i have had my tooth broken and gotten severe blisters on my thumbs.

Actually not so much blisters as button impressions and callusous.

My worst is really sore thumbs from the NES Controller.  After 9 or 10 hours of steady play with those damn concave buttons, the skin on my thump started cutting and bleeding a little, so I wraped it in a bandaid and kept playing. (I was 10 years old and not that bright).

er had sore thumbs like everyone the PSX pad isnt made for Street fighter and have got that numb wrist and arm thing from spending too much time on the PC (stuff like Battelfield 2).
Guitar Hero made 3 fingers on my left hand sore so didnt try any harder and gave it back!
Rubbed a giant blister on my finger one holiday playing in arcades too much but it was 1992 and the Street Fighter 2 again, and of course the very sore neck after playing and concentrating on a game for hours and hours when i should be going to bed.

Since i am in better straights now than i was at 1:30 in the AM.

Star Fox 64 left A button labeled into my finger for over 12 hours after playing.
Tetris on Gameboy i am pretty sure has given my arthrtis in my right thumb(technically this is thanks to all games and probably also when i broke my hand)
threw my shoulder out again playing wii sports
broke a tooth i believe due to Sonic.
skinned my back while playing GoldenEye (slid off the edge of the bed and hit the frame)
Among many others. Not so much to me when i consider how many endless hours i use to play and how violent it could get sometimes...


My cuz wins all though.
Since his was a subconcious thing.
He picked up a tick from playing quest 64 and he would do this akward "yes, i am victorious" armpump.
But since everytime he did it while playig the game he was holding the controller with both hands it was more like he was going to hit himself in the chest.
It only took him like 2 years to completely stop doing it.

Sore palm.
From the original Mario Party. 
There was a mini game where you had to rotate the control stick as fast as you can for an extended period of time.  I found that the fastest I could rotate was when I would put the control stick up against my palm and rub it circles with my open hand.  It worked, but after a while it started to hurt.   

Worst I get now is a sore spot on my right arm where it hits the edge of my desk.
That one I blame on WoW.

I've had sore thumbs and a few bruises from beating my friends at games.  They in turn beat me.  8-)  Gotta love arm punches

i grew up with an intellivision, i am immune to pain from modern controllers as a result

Argh.
ARGH.

I honestly can't think of anything too bad. My arms get tired from holding the DS in the air for hours on end (not so with the oh-so-light Micro). Uh... my ankle starts to hurt a lot when I play DDR for too long. I've gotten shocked by the plug of a DDR pad. Beyond all that, no.

everyone gets sore somewhere after long gaming sessions (thumbs, wrists, palms, etc..) but other than that, i haven't had any major injuries.....and i wouldn't really call being sore an injury....

being sore is a major disaster you need an Ambulance, nurses and a couple of Doctors at least to get you through all the pain an suffering...........er no sorry its Leprosy im thinking of.

Heh i have electrocuted so many times it is rediculous.
A few times it has been videogame related.
More often than not it is cable box related though.

For some reason it seems that many of them arn't grounded properly.

Those Dreamcast fighters kill my thumbs.  And Crazy Taxi... jamming gears to do crazy dashes and crazy drifts.

Does anyone use an arcade pad?  I've got one for the n64, and its worthless if you have friends over and are short controllers.  Its only good for Mario Golf.  But thats beside the point.   Does anyone use one and is it worth investing in one for the Dreamcast?  Every time I play Dead or Alive, Capcom vs SNK, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters '99 and Evolution, my thumbs get sore in less than two hours, and I can't play any other button/combo intensive game for a couple days.  Help here, anyone?

Hey, other injuries I forget about.  Haha, my brother and I usually trade punches after each round of (no need for Super) Mario Bros.

And of course there's all the cuts, burns, and shocks involved in modding and repairs.  Just be careful while opening your blisterpack controllers this Chrismas.

When I 1st got Fighters Megamix for the Saturn I played it so much my left thumb was sore, so I put a band-aid on it as padding so I could keep playing it :P

Yeah, same here. Don't know what's up with those stupid things. I haven't gotten shocked yet by our current one, though. It's a Time Warner DVR we got for free. :)

OatBob is right about those damn blister packs. They are annoying.

cramped hands ..to bad they dont make oversized controllers for extra lagre hands..

Guitar Hero kills may hands after playing for some time.

I need to rescind my vote. Wii Sports Tennis and my excessive amount playing it has made my wrist sore.