playing a game with a cast

nuckinfuts68

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did anybody else have the luck of breaking a bone and gettn stuck with a cast back in your hayday of arcade life??

i broke my ring finger on my left hand in gym class in 85. i know i know.... your not supposed to have a cast for a finger. i had the bad luck of it breaking in 2 places right where you'd wear your wedding ring. simply put.... the top side of my ring finger was touching the palm of my hand. but, the best part was i didn't feel a thing. gotta love 1st period gym class outside in october. runnin around in shorts and a tee-top in 40 degree weather.... nice and numb.....lol.

anyway, 1st cast... ( and yes, i said 1st cast ) was a fiberglass cast that left my index finger and thumb free so i could still play most games, all be it a bit challenging. after 4 weeks the cast came off but my finger healed crooked. so after the doc re-broke my finger in his office.....( won't hurt my ass....grrrr ).... 2 days later they operated and put a pin in my finger and put a plaster cast on with only the tip of my thumb exposed. this took my game playing to almost nill....( WHICH SUCKED !!!!! ). only good thing about this cast was i could give some horrific super noogies......hehehehe. things that sucked bigtime were that i walked to school so a coat was needed for sure and my hand didn't fit out the end of the arm of the coat.... so try to zip up your coat with 1 arm inside 1 handed.....SUCKED!!!!

the plaster cast came off after 6 weeks but my gaming was still crappy because for basically 10 weeks i had my left hand in a cast. needless to say i didn't have a ton of movement after that for some time.....lol.

tell us your horror stories.
 
In the heyday? No.. last February, I broke my little finger of my left hand.. made it REAL hard to play in the cast, especially games with the joystick on the left and buttons on the right. I had to abstain for about 6 weeks while I healed up.
 
Funny this posting came up because the other night I was playing Ms. Pac so my son could see it, but was holding him in my right arm. I'm right handed so I had to play with my left, and I was going to see who all here was ambidextrous with these games and, if so, what prompted it (ie broken bone, always been that way, etc).
 
Not a back in the day story... but related. I didn't get involved with this hobby (collecting/restoring) till last summer. I got my Scramble cabinet in August and in October I really started working on it... then I broke my leg.

I couldn't go downstairs into my garage for two months.

That really sucked.
 
I fractured my left thumb playing football and had a cast for a good 6 weeks. It sucked not being able to play games or play guitar for a while. The worse part is when the cast comes off and you have a layer of crap and your arm is shriveled like something out a horror movie.
 
I fractured my left thumb playing football and had a cast for a good 6 weeks. It sucked not being able to play games or play guitar for a while. The worse part is when the cast comes off and you have a layer of crap and your arm is shriveled like something out a horror movie.

UGH! I forgot about that! My leg and foot were in bandages and a cast from end of October till early January. My leg looked like some Rick Baker-esque horror movie prop.
 
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