Public Health Warning: iPhone gaming can seriously damage your health*
*Slightly damage your finger
8:26 am, June 10th, 2009, Craig Grannell
Witness the BLISTER OF PAIN. Ow.
As a child of 1980s gaming, I’m used to injury from videogames. In my younger days, I got arm pain from too many hours parked in front of the Atari and C64, and even recent years have seen pain caused by ‘too much Space Invaders Extreme DS’ syndrome.
Therefore, although it came as something of a surprise that I’ve now been injured by iPhone gaming, it probably should have been expected. Two days ago, I had rather serious pain at the end of my index finger. Closer inspection showed that the finger surface wasn’t returning to normal when prodded. And the middle finger was also showing symptoms.
Puzzled and in quite a bit of pain, it dawned on me that Flight Control was to blame. Too many hours landing tiny planes on tiny airports caused finger damage reminiscent of my guitaring days. Unfortunately, since I’m British and therefore only have the ability to complain about things in a vaguely sarcastic and satirical fashion, rather than unleash laywers on Apple, Firemint and any current manufactureres of aircraft and videogames (no matter how related), I’ll have to content myself with the fact that Flight Control’s recent update is rather spiffy, rather than rolling around in my underpants on a $100,000,000 out-of-court settlement.
Posted by Craig Grannell in Gaming, Humor, Opinions, iPhone | Comment on this article
This was funny! Craig, I love your writing style.
Alfred, on June 10th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Well yes, but what was your score?
Bert, on June 11th, 2009 at 4:57 am