Urban Dictionary Word of the Day: Nintendonitis
Friday, July 20th, 2007 at 8:38am by David
Every day in my inbox there’s an email from the Urban Dictionary featuring their Word Of The Day. Today, their featured word is Nintendonitis.
A chronic painful condition that effects the muscles or joints in the hand, fingers and/or forearm after playing videogames too much.
Dude, I played Final Fantasy for three days straight, but my Nintendonitis flared up so I couldn’t play anymore.
Anyone here ever suffer from this terrible affliction? My guess is yes.
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July 20th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Nintendo Thumb was the more chronic condition for me. After playing Tecmo Super Bowl (or whatever) for a long period of time, my left thumb would “lock up” and made a really loud crack when I forced it into a bent position.
July 20th, 2007 at 9:14 am
I get DS thumb after a run through Mario Kart DS. Usually this means I get an indentation in my thumb that looks a lot like the A button.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Really? I get Nintendonitis from playing Metal Arms for too long… and not even on a Nintendo console!
July 20th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
“Nintendo Thumb?” What’s that.
I am reminded of my earliest childhood affliction (and I am dating myself here), Intellivision Thumb. A rare affliction from the 80s, due to the fact that most kids had Atari.
If you don’t know what the old Intellivision Hand Controllers looked like, Google it. In using the disc to steer your on-screen avatar, the edge of your thumb would get rubbed raw between the disc and the outer lip of the controller casing, until you built up a nice callus.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I get my thumbs awfully sore after playing about any game for long periods of time. But, I get the extremely bad when I play the DS for more than 2 hours.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
yeah- nintendo thumb is a common affliction. my symptoms included a large red blister, a negative reaction to hours of Zelda II.
July 20th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
i played nsmb minigames with my friend for two hours straigt and my hand was trembling and aching in the hand that was holding the ds and the hand holding the stylus fell asleep and i had to walk around with my wrist and hand frosen in position
July 20th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Only time I got Nintendo thumb was playing Street Fighter II. Rolling the D-pad to do special moves tore my thumb apart.
July 20th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I used to get Nintendo Thumb as a kid (Zelda, Kid Icarus, SMB)…a mild callous eventually formed!
July 20th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
As a kid I used to get Atari Joystick thumb. That condition that would come upon you after pressing the little red fire button while blasting asteroids for 7 hours straight.
Now that I’m older I only finding myself playing the Wii / GC for no more than a half an hour or so at a time.
July 20th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
The closest thing I’m had to this was pulling a muscle playing WiiSports
July 21st, 2007 at 2:05 am
We always called it Button Thumb, rather than Nintendo thumb.
Mostly the D-pad on the NES would give me a blister on my thumb, but occasionally it’d get really stiff and be hard to move without making a cringe-worthy popping noise.
I haven’t had that in eons. I did get what you might call ‘Wii Wrist’ while playing Zelda, though. Swinging the Wiimote like a sword, especially during the Gannon fight, my wrist would start to ache.
…which probably means that I’m pretty much a lock for arthritis in the future. I even started using a trackball mouse after that because arthritis would be really really really bad for me to get…
July 26th, 2007 at 2:38 am
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