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 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.
I wish there was warnings about handing my long-nailed partner the new controller before playing FIFA. Apparently when you’re making your guy run faster by applying hydraulic press levels of force to the joystick, using your thumbnail on the rubber helps stop sweat slips.
Hahaha there was no animosity. We just had a gentlemans agreement to not play and let the NPC’s win. Sometimes that was favorable for you, sometimes it wasn’t, but it was pretty fair over the course of the entire game.
There was just dropped an update, and those come only like every six months and thus are big ones. Also next week is their anniversary I think, and they teased something is coming.
Anyway, it keeps alive that child in me who played with LEGOS, except now as an adult I get the simulation of the environment and the brutal laws of physics like gravity and energy/fuel, and logistics, automation, etc. Mods make it even more expansive and customizable.
It’s the one game I come back to over and over again through the last decade. I take breaks of course, months at a time even. But I never stop wanting to play with Space LEGOS!
I’ve watched a stream or two of this game! Which is exactly how much horror I can take. It’s quite funny when I’m not dying to ghosts but random stranger is!
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