A successful game recommendation? You decide.

[CheapyD]

A friend of mine asked me if Fight Night 2004 was supposed to be good.
I told him that It got good reviews and I that I thought he would like it.
I saw him a week or two later and he showed me this:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/images/ngi/sorethumb.jpg

[SneakyPenguin]

its the nintendo thumb! i actually never got that, i jsut got the sega bloodied finger.

[CaseyRyback]

Thats nothing. Check out my hand after a couple rounds of Street Fighter III : Third Strike or Marvel vs. CAPCOM 2. Baseball Bat style joysticks give me blisters for about a week.

[WhipSmartBanky]

Nasty.

[EggViper]

eww gross, is that what a nintendo thumb is? i play a lot of games but i never get that far.

[sm04as]

My computer was loading the pic and at first I thought it was a middle finger :o

[CaseyRyback]

And yes that is a good recommendation. I only suffer to play games I love

[dcfox]

I have one of those but it's on my big toe. Wear it proud CheapyD!

[magilacudy]

Damn.

What system caused that injury? I'm thinking XBox because its got those little irritating bumps on the joysticks?

[Mr. Anderson]

Damn.

What system caused that injury? I'm thinking XBox because its got those little irritating bumps on the joysticks?

Thats what I'm thinkin', but it is definitley possible on a PS2.

[CheapyD]

Yeah, its a PS2.

[Mr. Anderson]

Yeah, its a PS2.

Then youch, that must have taken some hardcore playing.

[SS4Brolly]

Tug of War on the original Mario Party.

Me and my friends have gotten our palms to look like something in a butcher shop trying to spin the stick fast enough to win. Anyone thats done it before knows what Im talking about.

[PsyClerk]

Nintendo actually got sued over Mario Party for that sort of thing. They lost a class action suit and you could send away to get an official Mario Party playing glove. No, I'm not joking.

I remember the night I got my PSX (waaaay back when, about 2 weeks after release), I had only bought a couple of games to go with it. I went to Radio Shack to get an RF converter because my TV didn't have the typical AV connections. I told the two twentysomething guys behind the counter what I was looking for and why, then one of the guys showed me the blister on his thumb. "That's from playing Battle Arena Toshinden." I immediately went and bought BAT.

Yeah, I'm sucker for that sort of thing.

[blackjaw]

i got free "gaming" gloves from nintendo for the whole mario party thing (although i never played mario party, only smash brothers...which wasnt as detrementle to my hands..haha)

i really wanna pick up fight night....someone needs to find it at a CAG price!

[MadChedar0]

CheapyD, that brings back days of Street Fighter II... oh that good old dragon punch did wonders on these thumbs

[KingDox]

THPS 2 did that too me on my DC. The little bumps on the controller trashed your thumb.

[MrMaddness]

Been a while since I got one of those...the controllers dont beat you up quite as much as they used to. The original NES was murder on the hands, as was the buttons on the SNES one....now everything is rounded and it takes a lot to get the Nintendo Blister. Wear it with pride!

[xzafixz]

Hmm, maybe i have strong hands, i've never gotten anything like that, the only thing that happens to me is my wrist will stop working after a while at the arcades on SVC: Chaos but that is about it, and i won't be able to move my wrist for a while, but never blisters.

[punqsux]

i have permanent healed blisters(im sure theres a term for it) on both my thumbs, worse on my left than right tho, mostly from street fighter, and mortal kombat games

[PapiChullo]

Good recommendation indeed. I haven't gotten blisters from playing a game since Mario Party. I used to do the powerpad with my hands, and my knuckles would get some nasty cuts and blisters on them. I had to play with socks over my hands.

[Randomthts]

Last time I remember having a blister like that was playing Track and Field at the arcade, good times.

[Naughty_Insomniac]

Wow. I haven't seen a Nintendo blister since the NES. That D-Pad was murder. Analog sticks are a god send, in comparison.

Oh yea, that and playing guitar. Blisters on FOUR fingers. ouch :censored:

[SneakyPenguin]

Hmm, maybe i have strong hands, i've never gotten anything like that, the only thing that happens to me is my wrist will stop working after a while at the arcades on SVC: Chaos but that is about it, and i won't be able to move my wrist for a while, but never blisters.

i get that when i play metal slug three on my x-arcade stick. one time my wrist and hand completly locked up. i couldnt move it at all, i actually had to pop it to get it to work a gain. same thing happned in half life blue shift.

[jdpimp]

i have permanent healed blisters(im sure theres a term for it) on both my thumbs, worse on my left than right tho, mostly from street fighter, and mortal kombat games

The term is callus (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=callus). You have a callus (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=callus).

[BlueStorm781]

I just threw up in my mouth! I've had my fingers go sore, but not that bad. These days, my entire finger gets tired and achy after long periods of play (like with PGR2 or Amplitude, games that you need to use the shoulder buttons or triggers to play).

I remember how sore my thumbs would get after playing Killer Instinct or MKII back in the day, but my thumb never looked that bad.

That's something you just keep to yourself. Like genital herpes or a yeast infection.

[goatindaruffness]

[quote="SS4Brolly"]Tug of War on the original Mario Party.

Me and my friends have gotten our palms to look like something in a butcher shop trying to spin the stick fast enough to win. Anyone thats done it before knows what Im talking about.[/quote

Same here, Tug Of War was just deadly, at one time I just decided to just not even bother whenever that game came up...
The lawsuit however was related to Mario Party 2, I remember that actually, and I always wondered what those gloves looked like, anyone have one??
-Goatman

[Mr. Anderson]

Hmm, maybe i have strong hands, i've never gotten anything like that, the only thing that happens to me is my wrist will stop working after a while at the arcades on SVC: Chaos but that is about it, and i won't be able to move my wrist for a while, but never blisters.

i get that when i play metal slug three on my x-arcade stick. one time my wrist and hand completly locked up. i couldnt move it at all, i actually had to pop it to get it to work a gain. same thing happned in half life blue shift.

Oh man, I feel ya. X-Men vs. Street Fighter at the arcade, just wow. When I was done playing, my wrist would go into imeasureable pain, and I couldn't move it it at all. Good times.

[bruce_pwns_j00]

I don't get blisters but I do get this. When I'm in a button mashing part of a game and im using a face button my finger will get so tired it will like jus have to be forced with my might to move it. Sometimes I just cant.

[FaintDeftone]

NES controllers gave me blisters from playing too much Castlevania and Mario games. I don't get them anymore though. I thought KOTOR would give me blisters cause I played that game like 10 hours straight once.

[ayolykewhoa]

Marvel VS Capcom 2 on DC nearly ruined my left thumb. The D-Pad was so terrible, that I bought an arcade stick.

[Rich]

TAnyone thats done it before knows what Im talking about.

When the analog got so hot it even hurt to touch. :(

[XboxMaster]

My fingers get tired on alot of Xbox games because of the triggers. When I'd do my 12-hour Wolfenstein runs during the summer, I'd have to take a break like every few hours. And could someone expand on this Nintendo playing glove, sounds interesting.

[The Successful Dropout]

i worst thing about blisters and cuts on your hands....jerking off....while very necessary....turns painful

[Tom]

I don't like using triggers anymore, like in pgr and pgr2 demos I always pulled the trigger and squeezed them so shaq-fuing hard that my fingers got extremely sore, and began to hurt like hell.

[JimmieMac]

I hope this doesn't happen this year.

[Greetard]

Tug of War on the original Mario Party.

Me and my friends have gotten our palms to look like something in a butcher shop trying to spin the stick fast enough to win. Anyone thats done it before knows what Im talking about.

Stealthy and I did the same thing trying to finish mini-game island. I got a skinless palm, and he got a quarter-sized blister......but we beat it.

[Tromack]

Tug of War on the original Mario Party.

Me and my friends have gotten our palms to look like something in a butcher shop trying to spin the stick fast enough to win. Anyone thats done it before knows what Im talking about.

Oh, I know all too well what you are talking about. God, those games were awesome. One of my friends can do any sort of button tapping one faster than any turbo controller we have ever come across. It's somewhat insane.

[adamada]

I got the Nintendo blister thumb. I beat Super Mario Brothers about 7 or 8 times in a row when I was about 6. My mom didn't let me play for a whole week. Never got blisters again, though.

[HOTSHIET]

CheapyD, that brings back days of Street Fighter II... oh that good old dragon punch did wonders on these thumbs

That's exactly what I was thinking. Those Hadokens and dragon punches really did a number on me too!