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.

[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!

[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..

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

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.

[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

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.