Handheld games are the devil!

[The Irrelevant Gamer]

I had the original Game Boy back in what is known as "the day," and I played Tetris until my eyes bled, and my thumbs ached. My nose would inexplicably run while playing my Game Boy as well. After a while I swore of portable gaming devices for these reasons.

That is until the day I bought Phase for my iPod. For those of you who don't know Phase is from Harmonix, and is basically iPod Hero with your own music. Like most handheld games it is extremely addictive, and I find it causes the same symptoms Tetris did all those years ago.

Mind you I didn't get eye strain, and a runny nose (seriously I mean what the hell?) from playing for hours on end. Twenty minutes is long enough to do it. I don't get this way from playing hours of games on a normal sized screen so I figure it is the tiny screen to blame.

So why the hell are games for portable devices always so damn addicting?! They make you want to keep playing when prolonged exposure causes leprosy.

Am I just some kind of mutant not suited to portable gaming devices, or have other people experienced this? God forbid I ever buy a television episode, or movie for my iPod. I'd go blind by the end of it.

 

[RentCavalier]

When I had a new game for it, I was usually glued to my DS.

Hell, Pokemon still does that for me.

 

[purifiedinfire]

thats why i dont have any.















except texas hold em for the ipod..... i play it all the time...

 

[PurpleRain]

I play Snake 2 on my brick phone

(waits for somebody to bash me with a door)

 

[Quistnix]

I used to have Doom RPG on my cellphone, and played it every spare second. Very well-made and addictive piece of software. Orcs and Elves really didn't live up to it.

Now I've got a DS Lite with a flash memory card, and I'm lost again. Fortunately, unlike my cellphone my DS isn't in my pocket when I visit the bathroom..

 

[shadow skill]

I have a psp but I dont use it because its just not comfortable to play on.

 

[Goofonian]

There was nothing worse than sitting under the window with my original gameboy, only to be reduced to horrible squinting as the sun went down and I could no longer see what I was playing. Aaah the memories.

 

[niko86]

Pokemon caused sore thumbs, perfecting angles and reflection physics in the name of getting just the right light on my game boy pockets screen, and getting up at 8am and playing till late during the 6 weeks holidays all those years back.

Before i passed my driving test i had a 1 hour bus drive every morning and that was filled with Advance Wars or Fire Emblem on my GBA. Fire Emblem being the more addictive, some levels took 1 hour or more each and because i did not want to lose any characters the later levels had to be replayed many times to get it done just right.