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From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
Newsgroups: net.games.video
Subject: Pain & video philo.
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 21:48:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 21:48:00 1985
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A friend of mine has been playing marble madness and he says he hurt his
hand from aggresive trackball use. This makes me think of my Arcade wounds
of past, like callouses on my hand from exidy's Bandito (Remember that one?)
the joystick was serrated in a cruel way. My hands used to hurt playing
Asteroids for 9 hours, a sort of numbing feeling in the palms, and my eyes
would black out sometimes from watching the screen for so long. My wrist
used to hurt after many games of Tempest, spinning the knob. Does anyone
rmember a joystick version of Asteroids called Meteor? I know Atari had the
joystick version for the home, but this was a coin-op, It had 2 buttons and
was a bitch to control. I also get pinched by trackballs for the football
and missile command games from Atari, a flap of skin passes in between the 
ball and enclosure causing pain. Anyone else experienced pain? Why do we
do this, I have spent 1000's on these games that could have gone to other
things. Pain, destitution, solitude, anger, momentary triumph, is this
our reward?

				Halfway arcade Hedley.