Hands up - Who here gets motion sickness from playing games?

[fairyland]

I was reading though a thread about the Virtua Boy and this one person mentioned that he gets motion sickness from it. That had made me wonder...just how many people out there gets motion sickness from playing games? Also, does that make you that much more of a "classic gamer"? (assuming that classic games never makes you sick)

Now, please endulge me while I prattle on. Sadly, I'm one of those foolish people who takes his life into his own hands whenever I try a "3d-ish" game out. I know that I should not, but the temptation is oh so great at times. I almost always suffer from my folly of trying to play a 3D game. I have tried and gotten terribly sick on such classics as Doom, Tomb Raider, Kingdom Hearts, Metroid whatever for the GC, and on and on.

It's odd, where sometimes I can go for an hour without getting sick, and other times it's not more than 15 minutes. More odd is how I cannot play Katamari now for longer than 30 minutes, but when it was new I had not once got sick on it and could play for hours on end.

I've not really found out why this happens. I've tried motion sickness pills, sitting some 30 feet away from the TV, eating, drinking, making sure I'm well rested...it seems that it's a matter of luck if I'll be able to play a game and for how long.

It seems heritary though, as my brother has the same trouble as well. Perhaps some people out there has suggestions for me to try? It's really sad as I can get so easily sick with merely 15 minutes of play but the effects will linger for nearly 16 hours. I'll get nightmares where everything spins, lightheadedness, nausia (sp?), unable to keep my balance (walking like a lightly drunk person), etc. Sometimes I wonder what would happen to me if I push myself and try to game right though the sickness. I never had though as I assumed I would pass out or perhaps have a seizure...I usually stop as soon as I feel the light headedness setting in.

So my little condition has pretty much made me a "classic gamer." Actually I don't consider myself a classic gamer, but time has progressed the games to where I cannot play most of the newest releases. I cherish my old games from the 2600 to the SNES era, yes, but I thank the gaming gods for the DS and their new games (most of which I've been waiting since the Super Nintendo days for and I personally consider those games as what should have been the progression in gaming rather than force fed 3D gaming with the N64 and PS1).

Yet, what frightens me is that I consider the DS the last time that I'll ever get to enjoy new quality 2D-ish games. In another 10 years, I'll probably not be able to play any handheld as they'll all be 3D powerhouses playing games simular to what is currently popular now on the home systems.

Call me in a rut, but I know in 10 years I'll still want new 2D sequels of Zelda, Mega Man, Castlevania, Mario, and Metroid no matter how much of a rehash they are, but I really wonder if I'll get it. If I don't, then I'll probably be stuck as a "classic gamer" playing the old 2d games that won't put me in an ambulance even though I have a strong desire to play the newest games that the rest of the world enjoys.

[SEGA-SAMMY]

I do from most first person shooters. F zero for Gamecube did as well. Playing handheld games or even reading in a moving veichle gives me motion sickness. :(

[atomicthumbs]

There is only one game that has ever (and consistently) made me light-headed/queasy/seconds away from barfing... Star Wars - Jedi Outcast for the Xbox. Odd...

Though not anywhere near as odd as how I ALWAYS feel nauseous if I watch Firewalker staring Chuck Norris. I'm dead serious! I can't watch that damn movie without wanting to honestly vomit!

[Damaramu]

Nope. No motion sickness here although the wifey tends to get a little pukey when watching me play Ace Combat games...so she rarely does. LOL

[Steven]

The only 2 games that gave me headaches were:

Descent (ugh)

and

Chex Doom clone demo (something about the choppy scrolling IIRC...)

[VGfan]

I did when playing the single player mode in Timesplitters 2.

The worst was the Hotel in Mario Sunshine, I didn't have a problem with the rest of the game. There was also some place in Metroid Prime, I think it was the place where you get the X-Ray vision and one of the artifacts.

[Cauterize]

Never play 'Forsaken' (N64, PC) if youre a motion Sckness sufferer then!
Im not but, ive seen my Dad run out the room while watching me play it! :D

[jajaja]

Nope, luckily i have never experienced it hehe. I've gotten sick of gaming tho, but thats because i played too much so i got tired and got a stiff neck.

[Pico956]

I get sick from played fast paced FPS for a long period of time. I start to get head aches and stomach craps.

[Captain Wrong]

Pukefest...I mean Perfect Dark. Four player split screen on a projection TV..ugh.

[Sam]

Rez or Frequency makes my flatmates abandon the living room as they can't watch it at all without feeling funny.

[ubikuberalles]

Nope. I have no memory of ever experiencing motion sickness. Playing videos while riding in a car or bus is something I've done often and I never experienced and adverse effecs.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Heck no.. :D

The Virtual Boy doesn't get me sick..

But: The Xbox 360 Game PREY,with it's flip this way that way screens to get somewhere gives me a headache:please pass me the puke bucket :puke:

It's the only game that I really can't/won't play..

[cyberfluxor]

I only get head achs if I play a game for many many hours on end (Like over 10hrs). For the most part though, very rarely. Descent was just plain fun!

[c0ldb33r]

My wife consistently gets sick from any 3D game. Any first person shooter or even Mario 64.

The only exception seems to be Goldeneye for n64 - she consistently kicks my ass at that one!

[Pantechnicon]

I've never experienced motion sickness from playing a game, and I've played enough 3D titles to figure it would have happened by now if ever.

I'm pretty sure there's a genetic basis for this. I just didn't get the particular gene sequence that makes some people sick that way. A better way to look at it is that I'm the one who got the necessary sequence and am therefore a genetically superior being.

http://www.durfee.net/startrek/images/TOS024.jpg

[slip81]

But: The Xbox 360 Game PREY,with it's flip this way that way screens to get somewhere gives me a headache:please pass me the puke bucket :puke:

It's the only game that I really can't/won't play..

Games don't make me sick either, but PREY is one that bothered me by giving me slight headaches after and hour or so of gaming.

I don't think it was due to the spinning, but more eye strain as it's a dark game, and I had to play in an almost completely dark room to actually see anything on screen, and even then it was tough.

I could however play it on an overcast day with no problems.

[Flack]

I get headaches and motion sickness from almost any 1st person game. There are only a very few that don't make me sick within a few minutes. I had to quit playing N64 Rogue Squadron when it got to the 1st person missions. Even a lot of 3D platformers give me headaches after a while. I can feel them coming on and if I don't stop RIGHT THEN then I will have a headache for an hour or two.

Ghost Recons 1 and 2 didn't seem to be too bad, but the new one pains me. Same with Tony Hawk; the ones on PSX weren't too bad, but the newer ones give me headaches. I haven't tried any motion sickness pills or anything.

So yeah, maybe it does make me stick to 2D platform games. I find those more fun, anyhow.

[vintagegamecrazy]

I can play whatever and not get sick, even V-Boy. If i'm really tired and falling asleep or if I play an extremely fast paced game such as tetris then my mind can lose focus and not be able to focus on the game, I don't get sick, my mind just says no more take a break.

[LAGO]

I've never gotten motion sickness from a game before. I did come close once when I saw a demo kiosk for the PS1, I believe the game was an Ace Combat demo. Other than that never been close.

[Daria]

I get motion sickness and headaches from First Person games. Generally is they have a weird distortion, like the PC Draculas. Move too swiftly, can't think of an example. Or have all around shitty graphics, seriously, older FPS games affect me more than new ones.

Games like Morrowind and Oblivion were alright if I played them in spurts. Sometimes I could pull an all nighter, othertimes I was limited to half an hour before getting sick. And somedays I couldn't touch it at all.

The first game I really had problems with was Albion, which was this really awesome PC RPG. The normal game was overhead but all dungeons and citystreets were done in a first person perspective. I literally would play the game until I had to rush to the bathroom and vomit, then continue playing until the headache grew so intense I was about to passout. I never did finish the game, guess it was turning out to be a little self destructive. God it was good though.

I'm good in the car with a handheld though, but once I tried to play the aforementioned Dracula on my mom's laptop. Baaaaad idea.

[norkusa]

It's strange. Some FPS games I can play without getting sick and others totally make me puke. Halo 1/2, Doom 3, Metroid Prime I don't have any problems with but the original Doom, Golden Eye (n64) and Return To Castle Wolfenstien all make me want to vomit.

I just started playing Call Of Cthulhu on Xbox and even that makes me a little sick. x_x Never had a problem with the Virtual Boy though.

[Retsudo]

I do if I sit too close to the tv. I get dizzy @_@

[Aussie2B]

Like many of you, I have problems with first-person games. I find them all disorienting, even the 2D ones. Luckily, first-person shooters don't appeal to me anyway, so there's only a handful of first-person games I'd have any desire to play.

Oddily enough, I have no problem watching someone else play first-person games. I love watching my boyfriend play King's Field games.

As for gaming or reading in a car, yeah, I definitely can't do that. What's weird is that I'm way more sensitive to vehicle movement than I used to be. When I lived with my mom, I was in a car all the time, and the only time I had to worry about feeling sick was if we were going on a 4 hour long ride to the coast. And even then, sitting in the front would usually prevent that problem (I don't know why but the back seat is ALWAYS worse for everyone I know who gets car sickness). However, now that I live in NYC, I'm in vehicles far less frequently, seeing as I don't have a car or lincense. Now it's pretty much limited to the bus rides to school (and occasionally elsewhere) and the car rides home from school from my boyfriend's dad. Sometimes those bus rides to school can be absolute torture because the commute takes about 2 hours and some of the roads are really shitty and bumpy. Not getting enough sleep makes me even more prone to feeling sick, so I used to often arrive at school feeling lousy, which doesn't exactly contribute to learning. I've found that if I rest my head on my boyfriend's shoulder and try to sleep, that usually prevents me from feeling sick and makes the ride go by faster, even if I don't manage to actually fall asleep. He gets motion sickness too, more often than me probably, and his solution is to listen to his iPod, so the music distracts him from focusing on the movement of the bus. As for me, listening to music in the morning when I'm tired tends to just give me a headache, no matter how peaceful the music is.

[mezrabad]

Forsaken. PSX.

Only game to make me want to hurl, but I wouldn't be shocked if Descent had a similar effect on me now, given the mechanics of the flight. Anything else, so far, I'm good. I understand we get more susceptible to this stuff as we grow older so we'll see.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I get motion sickness from FPS games. Only that. Nothing else makes me sick.

[The Brown Eye]

The only games that made me sick were Halo and the absolute worst, Mohawk & Headphone Jack.

[itobandito]

only when I try playing in the car. If I am on a train however I am fine.

[gjb-sensei]

Nope.

[InsaneDavid]

I've only gotten vertigo playing games ONCE but I can't remember what game it was.. hmm.. However I remember it was a game I played an awful lot of so I figured that there were other things at work that time. Surprised the hell out of me just the same. Don't even think it was anything with extreme movement.

Years ago when trade shows were promoting VR displays and games as the wave of the future I got a little screwy feeling after a few of them. This was because of the early state of the hardware, bad motion to video sync and all that.

[E Nice]

Most 3D and first person games can get me motion sick. My first experience with it was when I played Wolfenstein 3D. My head hurt very badly after playing that. It's not a normal headache either. It takes a long time for the pain to go away.
So I obviosuly steer clear of most of those type of games.

Some I can play for a few minutes or up to an hour but for some reason some 3D games I can actually play without ill effect. Whether it's framerate, decent color display in the screen environment or whatever else who knows.

[PapaStu]

I don't in the slightest, but I know my dad couldn't watch me play GoldenEye when I got a N64 back in the day and my Fiance has a hard time watching me play FPS games every once in a while.

[Goblin]

Halo got me sick, it was the first since Wolfenstein. Interestingly Halo 2 does not get me sick.

[Synergy]

I've never experienced motion sickness from playing a game, and I've played enough 3D titles to figure it would have happened by now if ever.

Same here. No sickness, headaches, nothing. I've played Halo on the PC on multiplayer servers for 10 hours straight when it finally came out too. :P


The first game I really had problems with was Albion, which was this really awesome PC RPG. The normal game was overhead but all dungeons and citystreets were done in a first person perspective. I literally would play the game until I had to rush to the bathroom and vomit, then continue playing until the headache grew so intense I was about to passout. I never did finish the game, guess it was turning out to be a little self destructive. God it was good though.

Yeeeesh! x_x I couldn't imagine that. I've never heard of that game either, I'll look into it.

But seriously, I feel bad from all the stories I'm reading here. I've just never understood it personally.


Forsaken.

Ugh, that game makes me sick, but not from motion sickness. Lame Descent rip-off I got free when I bought Turok 2 for the PC, and it wasn't even worth that much.

[snes_collector]

Here's a wried story. When I was a kid my mom and I played Super Mario Kart about every day. So a few months ago, we decided to try it again after not playing it for years. It made us both sick. Funny thing is, it never happened before. Also, I tried once to play Wacky Racers on my GBA player, and it done the same thing. Something with cart racers I guess :hmm: .

And my mom also can't play F-Zero GX without getting sick, I can however.

[geneshifter]

I have never ever got motion sickness from my games UNTIL I was playing Call of Duty 2 (xbox360) on my brother-in-law's 65" HDTV. That thing is so big that all of us in the room had to limit play to just a few minutes. The fact that we were only 3 feet from the thing also helped make it worse LOL

[ROBOTNIK666]

I get a stomachache when I play the 3D Combat remake for the PC.

[deaditeash2]

I've never gotten sick myself - but my wife gets motion sickness from 3D adventure games... I tried getting her interested in gaming a bit during the PS1 hey day with Spyro, Spyro Ripto's Rage, and Crash Bandicoot and all of a sudden she got totally sick and that was the end of that!

[SarKenobi]

I never seem to get motion sick while playing games. I'm pretty good as long as I'm not moving. Lately I've been getting weird motion sick in cars and buses, other moving transportation. Instead of motion sickness, I tend to get dry eyes and tired if I play too long.

[ooXxXoo]

For some strange reason the game "DOOM" for the 32X system makes me physically nauseated after 10 minutes of playing into it...Probably because of the eye restrain looking into the frame that this particular game screen has.

[DefaultGen]

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[Trevelyan]

Very few modern games on modern systems have made me ill and the only games that have have caused headaches.

Road Rash on the megadrive I could only play for short periods, it once gave me a really bad headache back in the day, replaying it today I still start to feel a bit 'off' after about 1/2 hour.

[CaptainFalcon13]

Hydlide (NES) is a fun game to play, but The music makes me want to tear off my ears and the graphics are pretty blegh too.

:deadhorse:

[darkhades]

The only game to make me feel sick to my stomach is Prey (360). I guess that's why I hate the game so much.

[Nikademus1969]

If I play Morrowind for too long I start to feel carsick :(

[FlufflePuff]

There were areas of WoW that would give me vertigo if I jumped off them. Same thing with the tall skyscraper in GTA: SA. Still gives me willies, but it's fun nonetheless.

[98redM6]

Any virtual boy game. I have to lay on my back to not get sick.

[Videogamerdaryll]

The only game to make me feel sick to my stomach is Prey (360). I guess that's why I hate the game so much.

Ha,me too..

I was going to post the same thing..

I'm glad I'm not alone with this..

[Sudo]

I've yet to have any game make me physically ill just from playing it. I used to get motion sickness, but that was a long time ago while I was still a kid.

[kaedesdisciple]

Any Guitar Hero if played for too long. First the walls start moving on me, then I get a headache. I need to play that game in relatively short bursts.

[ugly_monster]

Not sick to my stomach, but games with small yellow words make me dizzy and eventually give me a headache.

[HYB]

Dr.Mario (NES). I love that game to death but my eyes feel like shit if I play it for more than an hour, especially with the DS screen.

[debian4life]

Exterminate for PS2

[Amnion-Chorion]

I had a headache one time and playing Metroid Prime nearly made nauseous. Thankfully, it hasn't happened since :)

[wallydawg]

most early fps games I cannot play due to the choppy framerate and all that.

It's also odd that I can play Goldeneye on N64 with no problem, but can't stomach Perfect Dark for more than 10 minutes.

[diskoboy]

Marathon on XBLA, and the one-and-only time I played an R-360 cabinet, I was a bit wonky for a few minutes after stepping out of the machine.

[udisi]

oddly enough Halo does this too me. I'd get a headache and get pukey if I played too long.

[ooXxXoo]

I've come to think of how video game manuals always include medical precautions.I was recently reading this one:
"Physical activities involving regular reapeted movements of the wrists.hands and/or fingers may possibly cause repetitive stress injury.Such injury may also affect muscles in the arms,wrists,hands,fingers,shoulders and neck,chest and abdoment,and legs and back.There have been reports that some people may experience epileptic symptoms or even seizures while concentrating on flashing lights.In any event,stop using the video game system and consult your physician if you detect involuntary muscle movements(such as twitching),mental or visual confusion or other areas."

Believe it or not this came out of 3DO game manual,it cought my attention how long the report was.

[debian4life]

The broomstick flying portions on Harry Potter games makes me extremely car sick nausea.

[Leo_A]

I've gotten headaches from games before, but that wasn't the fault of the game. Marathon for XBLA is it for me for making me feel ill.

[ice1605]

I have never been sick because of video game playing (although I like watching the walls move after over an hour of GHIII), but one of my friends got a headache from the SNES game Hyperzone. The first level has the odd color patterns. What is bad about that is that he likes that game.

[Clownzilla]

I love the game but Legend Of Kage always made my sick when I was younger. Although, I played the Taito Classics version on PSP recently and I felt fine........

[Fuzzball24]

Halo 2. Jumping up and down makes me sick. Blah!

[The Batman]

The only game to make me ill was primal rage, used to make me feel like blowing chunks.:puke:

[spoon]

I will second Virtual Boy. I can only play it for about an hour tops at a time then I start to get really bad headaches. I think the VB is pretty bad ass though.

I will Third GH. After about two hours things I stare at will shrink up and then start to stretch out.

I also can not play Red Steel multiplayer without starting to feel like I am going to barf everywhere.

[p_b]

Pro Evolution Soccer 6 on XBox LIve. Because whenever I play, I end up losing. So I get a beer. And play on. And lose again. And get a beer, .....
And the next morning, I feel ill.

[Overbite]

Any Timesplitters game makes me nauseous when I play it. Metroid Prime used to but not anymore.

[scooterb23]

I can officially add a game to this list.

Super Mario Galaxy bothers me after a few minutes. I think the running upside down gets to me...

[mezrabad]

Forsaken for the Sony Playstation gave me motion sickness the first time I tried playing it. I haven't tried to play it again since.

[Snapple]

MONKEY BALL!!

The way the whole screen rocks up and down, side to side, turning every which way, it gives me a HUGE HEADACHE EVERY TIME. It's a shame, because Monkey Ball is a good franchise, but it never fails. After ten minutes of playing, I feel like I'm getting a migraine.

[xxxDEVILMANxxx]

All of the Tom Clancy Rainbow Six games for the PlayStation.

:puke:Half-Life 2 for the Xbox.

[hush]

for me i found that the wipeout games tend to make me feel a little wonky after awhile:puke:

[punkoffgirl]

Merging this topic with an older thread on the same topic.

[leicamaster]

one game which does not make me motion sick but makes me sick is LSL magna cum laude. Especially in those little videos of getting it on! I get kinda dizzy it goes to fast!!!!! That game was crap:( Never gonna be the same without Al Lowe

[FrakAttack]

Doom first time I played it, but got over it pretty quick. "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy" still does but, of course, that's the point.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/FrakAttack/touchfuzzygetdizzy.gif