King Kong and nausea

**Papewaio** · 01-26-2006, 02:31

There used to be a green shaded helicopter game (apache?) with flying in canyons that got me quite sick.

**lars573** · 01-26-2006, 14:38

It has to do with your tolerance for flashing colours and your distance to your screen. Peronlly I don't get it with shooter but puzle games like Mah jong tetris Dr. Matio or puzzle league make me see spots in my periferal vision, and get a headache.

**GoreBag** · 01-26-2006, 15:07

I've never experienced it (developed a tolerance, I guess), but my father used to get nauseous watching me play Road Rash 64.

Oh, and the bittie gets sick to her stomach watching me shoot zombies in Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 01-26-2006, 17:48

If i play games in the dark i get headaches. Oddly enough, i don't get headaches if i'm using the computer for other things while i'm in the dark. Weird...

**doc_bean** · 01-26-2006, 18:46

I've had headaches with games before, it seems to be very game dependant.

I got nauseous the night after I had played quake for the first time (like being really drunk, without the stomach trouble) but that was the only time I've had it that badly.

Generally I believe it's usually due to frame rate and response rate, if the view lags behind the mouse movement I tend to quit before the headache starts...

**screwtype** · 01-27-2006, 15:18

Hmmm, sounds like most folks haven't really experienced what I was describing. I must admit I'm a bit suprised, I thought at least someone else would have experienced it.

Originally Posted by Lars53

It has to do with your tolerance for flashing colours and your distance to your screen.

That's a different phenomenon Lars. I've experienced that too, but what I was trying to describe is the feeling you get like from being on the big dipper or something. It's a sort of loss of the sense of balance, leading to dizziness and nausea. I've only ever got it playing 360 degree 3D games.

Originally Posted by currywurry

If i play games in the dark i get headaches.

I think I was playing in semi-darkness when I experienced this, which probably magnified the phenomenon. Also, we are currently experiencing a heat wave, my flat is sweltering, and in retrospect I think this may have at least accentuated the phenomenon. Sadly I will probably have trouble going back to Kong now, I only have to think of it and my stomach starts to churn again!

Anyhow, enough of that. Has anyone actually bought the game, and if so how do you like it?

**Bob the Insane** · 01-27-2006, 17:02

I had a friend that always got the motion sickness effect from playing 3D shooters... His eyes say he is moving but his inner ear says he is not...

Personally I get it the other way, like in the back of a car when you can;t see out. Not so bad now but it was awful as a child...