Psp Sickness

[Twimfy]

Well that was a first.

I just threw up all over my living room carpet after a 3 hour Burnout legends session in the dark.

In the 16 years I've been playing games I have never suffered a side effect of non stop playing, I've avoided the warnings in the beginning of user manuals since the days of the master system without fear. Until now.

I was lying on the sofa with the lights off, with two pints of lager playing pointlessly in the background on UK gold, I hit the home button, pressed circle flicked the switch up, sat up, the room span and then blurgh, out it came.

It might be a one off, but then holding a psp at half arms length to your face so that your eyesight is very nearly filled with all those lovely polygons at high speed is probably quite similar to switching on your PS2 and then sitting with your nose touching the TV screen.

Quite worrying really, god help me if it happens in public.

Anyone else suffered something similar brought on only since the arrival of Sonys black brick?

 

[Vimacs]

it seems to be quite common to get sick from psp, i gues its couse of the smearing of the screen or something.

 

[junker]

psp lcd sucks for fast motion!
never had any sickness, though.

 

[Twimfy]

I think it was less the fast motion (my LCD is fine, no blurring or anything) and more the fixed concentration on one square of light for so long (with occasional looks away to grab tea).

 

[Alpha2]

say...did you partake of those two pintsbecause from what I hear you shouldnt drink and drive.

But seriously laying on your back in the dark staring at a bright screen and sitting up too fast is pretty much par fot the course as far as vomiting is concerned. the same things would happen to you playing advance wars on a GBA SP... and I'm not even talking about the new backlit one.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

sometimes if i play a maze type game (where im going in a circle trying to find something) i get dizzy and nausea sets in. just take breaks in between hours or something

 

[shinneri]

I get a pretty bad headache every time I try to play my GP32 BLU with no other lights on. If, say, my computer monitor's also on when playing, it's not bad.

But yeah, I'm not at all surprised you got sick from that extended amount of play under those conditions.

 

[Alex.]

I'm afraid that the same thing will happen to me while playing Lotus Turbo Challenge on my ZXSpectrum emulator on my GP32!

 

[Goity]

Just eat food. It does work.

 

[gary.mckeown]

same thing happens with me and damn half life 2. takes about 30mins then i'm fooked for the rest of the night. no problems playing cs source tho which is strange.

 

[lubidog]

@Alpha (I think..!) Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps was a quite funny UK sit com from a couple fo years ago!

I once swallowed a couple of PSPs. Was ill for days.

And I once caught a cold playing Sam Fox's Strip Poker....

 

[Twimfy]

@alpha (I think..!) Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps was a quite funny UK sit com from a couple fo years ago!

I once swallowed a couple of PSPs. Was ill for days.

And I once caught a cold playing Sam Fox's Strip Poker....

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I was watching the new series as a matter of fact.

I used to have mates who got '3D sickness' from playing games.

 

[Goity]

@alpha (I think..!) Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps was a quite funny UK sit com from a couple fo years ago!

I once swallowed a couple of PSPs. Was ill for days.

And I once caught a cold playing Sam Fox's Strip Poker....

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They're still doing new series' of it on bbc3

 

[Alpha2]

I've never watched the series, I can only guess to it's quality.

Motion sickness can be a bitch, I sometimes got it while playing GTA3 but it was worse on GTA:VC but didn't happen at all on GTA:SA. It comes from not being able to adjust your focus and usually happens ofter you've been staring intently at something visually intensive like a constantly moving FPSer or a game where the camera angle shifts too fast making it hard to keep your eyes in one spot.