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My dad is always saying to me whenever I have been on my Playstation2 for a few hours "give it a rest! You'll get square eyes!". This is a common saying with adults if you spend too much time at a PC screen, playing computer games or sitting too close to the TV screen. There is no way this can be true as everyone would be walking around with square eyes as everyone has been told that at some point in their lives. Are adults just trying to scare us or do they know something us teenagers and kids don't?
I am pretty sure that I haven't got square eyes but something that I am aware of is that after playing on my Playstation2 for a long period of time I get a spliting headache and my eyes hurt for the rest of the day! What do they put in the TVs and Playstation2s which cause this effect on us? I have tried playing for half an hour and then stopping for a ten minute rest but doesn't seem to do the trick, I still get the headache I had from playing non-stop! Have any of you had this problem? I don't normally get this when playing Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex or Jak and Daxter, it seems only to come after playing Grand Theft Auto 3, Gran Turismo 3, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, The Getaway and 007 Nightfire. I reckon it is to do with concentrating too hard on a certain mission or being so close to winning a race I think I am going to lose so I concentrate and grip the controller so hard that my hands start to sweat! Weird Huh!!
But when I am concentating really hard in an exam I don't feel like this so it must be only when I play my Playstation2. Maybe I am allergic to playing games for over an hour! Whatever it is, it sure is weird and I feel like my Playstation2 is taking over my whole body and all of my ability to control what I am doing seems to disappear! I started to get migraines so I was told by my mum that I was only allowed to play on my Playstation2 2 to 3 times a week instead of 5 to 6 times which I was doing before I cut down. At first I hated this new rule but at least my migrains have calmed down leaving me with peaceful gaming!!
If you have been affected by my story please call freephone :
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Please reply to this message if you have been through something like what I have been through so I will know if I am not alone on this issue!
pring
(Ps2 master!)
(Well, until the migrains started anyway!)
I am pretty sure that I haven't got square eyes but something that I am aware of is that after playing on my Playstation2 for a long period of time I get a spliting headache and my eyes hurt for the rest of the day! What do they put in the TVs and Playstation2s which cause this effect on us? I have tried playing for half an hour and then stopping for a ten minute rest but doesn't seem to do the trick, I still get the headache I had from playing non-stop! Have any of you had this problem? I don't normally get this when playing Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex or Jak and Daxter, it seems only to come after playing Grand Theft Auto 3, Gran Turismo 3, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, The Getaway and 007 Nightfire. I reckon it is to do with concentrating too hard on a certain mission or being so close to winning a race I think I am going to lose so I concentrate and grip the controller so hard that my hands start to sweat! Weird Huh!!
But when I am concentating really hard in an exam I don't feel like this so it must be only when I play my Playstation2. Maybe I am allergic to playing games for over an hour! Whatever it is, it sure is weird and I feel like my Playstation2 is taking over my whole body and all of my ability to control what I am doing seems to disappear! I started to get migraines so I was told by my mum that I was only allowed to play on my Playstation2 2 to 3 times a week instead of 5 to 6 times which I was doing before I cut down. At first I hated this new rule but at least my migrains have calmed down leaving me with peaceful gaming!!
If you have been affected by my story please call freephone :
0800 222 678 (open 0 days a week!)
Please reply to this message if you have been through something like what I have been through so I will know if I am not alone on this issue!
pring
(Ps2 master!)
(Well, until the migrains started anyway!)
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> Well i sit in my bed and play my gamecube as i have a Wavebird
> Wireless control so none of this affects me at all
How would that stop games from making you ill? Because you are further away? It wouldn't take away the risk of seizures for example.
Besides I think from personal experience that bed is the worst place to play games. You do have to draw a line folks. And bed is for different types of games....
Try a couch, around 3-4 feet from a large screen. Put your feet up, have a coffee within reaching distance, and relax.
Gaming bliss...
> Well i sit in my bed and play my gamecube as i have a Wavebird
> Wireless control so none of this affects me at all
How would that stop games from making you ill? Because you are further away? It wouldn't take away the risk of seizures for example.
Besides I think from personal experience that bed is the worst place to play games. You do have to draw a line folks. And bed is for different types of games....
Try a couch, around 3-4 feet from a large screen. Put your feet up, have a coffee within reaching distance, and relax.
Gaming bliss...
Well i sit in my bed and play my gamecube as i have a Wavebird Wireless control so none of this affects me at all
That just happens to some people.
The spectrum did hurt, but it was my ears that got hurt by the horrible noise it made when loading.
Other than that I have had a couple of 21 hour non stop gaming sessions. (with the exception of very short pit stops, i.e. pizza, booze, bog).
All I can say is tough luck!
P.S. I recommend coffee. It cures all of my headaches.
The spectrum did hurt, but it was my ears that got hurt by the horrible noise it made when loading.
Other than that I have had a couple of 21 hour non stop gaming sessions. (with the exception of very short pit stops, i.e. pizza, booze, bog).
All I can say is tough luck!
P.S. I recommend coffee. It cures all of my headaches.
they certainly make me ill. Just last week I was playing GTA Vice City, and because I'm so impressionable, I thought it was ok to get a hammer and kill people randomly. So I shot down to the trafford centre in me car with my dads rusty old sledgy I got out of the garage.
Once there I was spoilt for choice as to who I should remove from this earth. I settled for this victor meldrew looking type who had one of those looks on his face that said he hated everyone. I approached him and asked him to please help me, as my girlfriend had fallen behind a couple of skips nearby. The walk was slow and steady, and I had time to ask him about his children, who it turned out were both lads at university, doing a similar course to mine. So, looks were deceiving, he wasn't the miserable old git he appeared to be. Indeed I warmed to the man. I still did him in though, with one blow, then left the hammer, and returned home to once again hold a virtual city to ransom.
Some nagging voice in the back of my head says I'm sick and need help. I suppose when I've got a bit of time on my hands I'll go see a doctor.....
(Note : Borat does NOT condone random killings)
Once there I was spoilt for choice as to who I should remove from this earth. I settled for this victor meldrew looking type who had one of those looks on his face that said he hated everyone. I approached him and asked him to please help me, as my girlfriend had fallen behind a couple of skips nearby. The walk was slow and steady, and I had time to ask him about his children, who it turned out were both lads at university, doing a similar course to mine. So, looks were deceiving, he wasn't the miserable old git he appeared to be. Indeed I warmed to the man. I still did him in though, with one blow, then left the hammer, and returned home to once again hold a virtual city to ransom.
Some nagging voice in the back of my head says I'm sick and need help. I suppose when I've got a bit of time on my hands I'll go see a doctor.....
(Note : Borat does NOT condone random killings)
When i play games for prolonged periods of time i get blurred vision and i feel quite dizzy and occasionally i get sore heads.I once fainted due to playing my ps2 for too long.When i say prolonged i mean about 4,5,maybe even 6 hours a day nearly every day of the week.In the booklets supplied with games it warns gamers of suffering from epilepsy seizures when viewing flashing lights or patterns which may be featured in some computer games.Game makers recommend only playing for an hour with 15 minute intervals between each hour played and stay as far away from the tv screen as possible while playing.I hope this article is of interest.
I've played a few demos from the PC ZONE magazines 'the best pc games ever 1993-2003' dvd and a few of them have given me headaches, which is annoying because I liked a few of them. For example Dues ex and half life...
haven't got round to playing the demo of christmas lemmings yet :)
I still have no idea why I get those headaches from certain games.
haven't got round to playing the demo of christmas lemmings yet :)
I still have no idea why I get those headaches from certain games.
poor guy, all he wanted to do was make his hands hurt so much that he got the next day off work!!
Some guy, after playing his PC for 18 hours non-stop, got up to take a slosh then collapsed and died. True story. Can't remember what game he was playing though. :)
Don't know about the whole "Do they make us ill?" question.. but it's a good question!
My dad was playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 and somehow managed to get pretty moody. He ended up throwing the controller on the floor knocking the R2 button off.. I thought, Noooo! How am I gonna revert now?!!
Then I started thinking he needed anger management classes..
But the R2 button was okay. :D
I think they make us angrily, mentally, sickly, ill.. but they're still fun. :D
My dad was playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 and somehow managed to get pretty moody. He ended up throwing the controller on the floor knocking the R2 button off.. I thought, Noooo! How am I gonna revert now?!!
Then I started thinking he needed anger management classes..
But the R2 button was okay. :D
I think they make us angrily, mentally, sickly, ill.. but they're still fun. :D
boring!!!
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