I've never been affected by it. Playstation 1 games used to give me sever headaches, though. For some reason, the colours in most of the games were brain-searingly bright.
Poll: Video Game Induced Motion Sickness
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I have only had it once. When me and a friend were dicking around in Black Ops split screen. Insane sensitivity + Opposite spinning directions + Rapid sniper aiming = Severe migraine followed by a swift trip to the toilet. What a fun day that was 
When I was younger I used to suffer from this. I remember when I first got my hands on Halo: Combat Evolved, it was my first FPS and I couldn't play it for more than a few minutes at a time. With time it's gotten much better though, and only tends to happen when i'm stuck and have to wander around in circles to find whatever i'm missing in order to progress.
I never got it until we got a new giant tv. Now I suffer from it if I play some first-person games for too long. My dad can't play first person games on it at all. We tried to play Borderlands together and he had to leave the room before we even got to Fyrestone.
nope! fortunately for me i'm one of those people who can eat a feast before going onto a huge roller coaster while it being 110 degrees out (i'd like to think the same applies to video games, i've never gotten nausea or anything..so far at least)
Portal is the only game I've ever had a motion sickness reaction to.
I think it's because I kept getting myself stuck between portals while trying to build momentum. x_x
I think it's because I kept getting myself stuck between portals while trying to build momentum. x_x
Never had motion sickness but I knew it was out there, never came into contact with someone like that either.
My friend wouldn't play games because they made her sick, but when first met in our first year of college she made a point to learn so she could blow me up in Unreal Tournament 2003. She overcame the motion sickness, but not my flak cannon; end result was her editing the textures in her game so all the characters had either her face or mine...
Here's some cool extra info on this phenomena courtesy of my BS in Biology and asking my professors about it when Cloverfield came out and people were having the same problem: When your brain notices that your eyes are telling it that you are moving but your inner ear liquid's lack of sloshing around is telling it that you are sitting still, your brain assumes that you are hallucinating due to trippin' out on drugs. It then tells your stomach to feel nausea and vomit up the non-existent drug. This is something we evolved so that when our hominid ancestors snacked on a hallucinogenic plant or mushroom, we would vomit it up before we could do any more damage on our bodies or brains. I wonder if you can induce the same effect by moving violently while making it appear to your eyes that you are standing still? Maybe that's why people get sick on rollercoasters, their seat and car they're in looks static while the body twists around.Darkauthor81 said:
I for one don't feel nausea on rollercoasters or by playing the aforementioned type of games. I even tried to eat a lot of food really fast before getting on an intense coaster, but no negative reactions. Whether that means my brain is advanced enough to not be tricked into thinking I'm ingesting drugs, or my brain is primitive enough to not know that I'm "ingesting drugs" and that drugs are bad, I can't say. I can say that it lets me enjoy those things where others can't (loved Cloverfield, but most people can't seem to get past their nausea). It also let me torture my little sister when I was young and playing the 5th boss in Yoshi Island, and later again with Super Mario Galaxy. Running around a small planet until the screen is just a blur of colors while your annoying sibling gets nausea is really fun