Game ports that make you ill?

[KWKBOX]

I attempted to play DOOM on the 3DO and just ended up getting a splitting headache and quitting from the horrible frame rate. We previously played the 32X version and my friend puked from the motion sickness it caused in the video below. What games make you sick when you play them?


https://youtu.be/wQzJqdzFtYM?t=5m52s

[Flojomojo]

Marathon on the Xbox 360. Too fast, or the wrong type of visual field maybe? Bleargh. I always wanted to play that game when it was new but my Mac wasn't strong enough. A console version should have been a dream come true. Instead, vomitousness!!

[celerystalker]

Most FPS' make me motion sick, so if I really like one, I have to play in small doses.

[The 1 2 P]

Most FPS' make me motion sick, so if I really like one, I have to play in small doses.

Same here but only when I play dark graphic FPS games such as Star Wars: Dark Forces, Doom 3 and Quake 2. If I run in those games for more than a few seconds I literally need to lie down to stop my head from spending so much. I've heard dramamine works well for this.

[Emperor Megas]

So, are we just talking about any games that make us sick, or only ports?

If we're talking about any games, I have an issue when I'm in a high place on a game and there's a sense of realism. Ico makes my stomach queasy when I'm in a dangerous high place. Especially when it's outside, and doubly so if there's wind.

[goldenband]

Nintendo 64 seems to hit me harder in this department than any other system, by far. Monster Truck Madness 64 and Forsaken have been the two worst offenders. OTOH I had no problem with Pilotwings 64, and I've been playing the South Park FPS with no issue.

For me, cameras that whip around like crazy seem like the main culprit; frame rate isn't as much of an issue. I felt a little off once or twice when playing Escape from Monster Manor for 3DO and Toy Commander for Dreamcast, but other FPS games have been no problem.

BTW this reaction is often called "simulator sickness", vs. actual motion sickness. I get nauseated, but the biggest symptom I get is feeling feverish and headachy.

[drunk3nj3sus]

When I first played DOOM on the snes it gave me motion sickness but since that I've never really had a problem with any FPS, some early 3d games had really terrible spinning camera systems but that was more annoying than "sickening".

For non-ports Hammerlock Wrestling on the SNES is a game that gives me headaches hopefully whoever thought up having the top and bottom 3rd's of the screen constantly animated during gameplay is no longer in the video game industry.

[KWKBOX]

So, are we just talking about any games that make us sick, or only ports?

If we're talking about any games, I have an issue when I'm in a high place on a game and there's a sense of realism. Ico makes my stomach queasy when I'm in a dangerous high place. Especially when it's outside, and doubly so if there's wind.

Any game that makes you violently ill will do.

[Emperor Megas]

The choppy frame rate of Pitfall on the 32X hurts my eyes. It's unplayable for me.

[wizardofwor1975]

Mad Max on the NES makes me want to toss my cookies but its not because of motion sickness. How could Mindscape screw up Mad Max??? They should have had a level were Max is helping the settlers defend their fortified settlement from Lord Humungus and his marauders. Another level could have been borrowed from Spy Hunter with Max driving his Main Force Patrol Pursuit Special while being chased by the marauders. I'd love to have seen Max and Wez go head to head on the NES. Maybe the last stage could have been Max defending the semi truck with his double barreled sawed off from the Humungus. So many possibilities but in the end we got another crap movie adaptation.

[Atarileaf]

One that always made me nauseated was Descent, the old DOS FPS where you were in a ship in zero gravity. It was so easy to lose orientation I would start sweating and feeling really ill. Could never play that game.

[BlastProcessing402]

This is why VR isn't the future. Well, another reason. You think you feel nausea after playing a game on TV, great googily moogily, just wait until that screen is right in your face and you can't turn away.

[Tanooki]

Hah the game won't be the only 3D experience, that's for sure. :D

[megasdkirby]

Hexen on the Saturn.

Besides the entire memory card fiasco, the framerate was horrible and would give me massive headaches. Always wanted to give the game a chance, but never could. Then got the N64 version, but had already lost interest in the game.