I fell victim to this one on authentic “retro” N64 hardware, which has a hard plastic analog stick. Got an enormous blister right on the palm of my hand trying to win this tug of war. Of course, my young brain was able to hyperfocus on the game and completely tuned out any sense of pain in my hand. It was quite gruesome when I finally beat it and realized my hand was torn to shreds. I was at my neighbors place and I remember how shocked their mom was. She applied some cream that I think was meant for severe burns.
Nintendo would later run a campaign where they’d send you fingerless gloves for free to try to do some damage control on all the negative press when reports started popping up.
Yeahhh. I made my palm bleed trying to beat (I did, the first of anyone in my family lol) the Boo when he is coming for you on the stationary bike on what I think was Mario Party 1. I ended up being grounded for over a month lol.
It was only earlier this year that I learned about that glove campaign though. I would have loved a pair of those haha.
I actually bought the game because I really like what remedy does, other wise I’ve ignored epic completely. I dont blame anyone who pirates it, game was AWESOME and the more that play it the better.
If you pinch or irritate your skin doing this, you have weak skin and it shall be your downfall in the battlefields of Mario Party, and it will be deserved.
The most recent trilogy is better about that. 2013 has no natives, and Rise and Shadow both have her siding with the natives. Still snags a bunch of artifacts.
yeah but the original was honest. this cunt was rich as fuck, living in a gigantic mansion. it makes sense that’s she’s a psycho who hunts natives for sport and exterminates endangered and thought-to-be-extinct animals for trinkets that provide nothing but bragging rights.
It’s interesting how much the general attitude has changed about shit like that. In the 90s, I didn’t think twice about it, it was just a normal thing to imagine going to some location, killing anything that reacted with hostility to your presence, and taking back whatever you “found” for a vanity display or profit.
My reaction to Indiana Jones’ “it belongs in a museum!” was that he was virtue signalling (back before it was even called that). I guess the bright side is that, even as a kid, I thought the idea that museums having some kind of special claim on anything was ridiculous.
I don’t remember what minigame but it was for Mario Party for the GameCube. It required pressing A really fast and we found out you could drag your knuckles back and forth across the button to cause damage to both your opponents and your hand.
That does bring back memories. Painful memories. Rented that game back in the day. Then, I spent an entire day at a friend’s pool trying to keep my hand above water because young me thought the water was bad for the wound. Swam the entire day like I had a question nobody would let me ask.
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