Trak-Ball Phobia

[Uncle Duke]

This story maybe un-important, but I just figured I would share this past early childhood trauma with you.

 

Once when I was very little (about 4 or 5) I was at an arcade, and they had a bowling game, with a Trak-Ball. I dont remember what it was called, I was very small... But I wasnt even going to play the game. Actually I dont think I was allowed to play the game. I always remember being at Chuckie-Cheese and places like that but I always remember my parents saying, "Arcades are a waste of money!" So I was only allowed to play the games for tickets and stuff. So as a sad child, I would go up to games and... (really embarrassing) I would pretend I was playing the arcade game... So anyway, I was "playing" a bowling game and rolling the trak-ball thing around, and with a *snap* The flesh of my finger got jammed in the corner of the Trak-Ball, I shrieked and my finger bled a little, then I tried it again, another jam. I stayed clear of that for a while... So anyway, ever since then, no matter how much I try my fingers always get caught in those darn things! Even just recently I was playing Centipede at a Rolling Skating Rinc, and my finger got jammed AGAIN! Agh! Thats why I stay clear of those, but despite that... I still want to get a Trak-Ball for my VCS...

[Uncle Duke]

woah, sorry about that, I hit the Back button and on accident a second one of these came up. Sorry about that.

[liquid_sky]

trak-balls always kick my ass

[Lemmi]

wimps

 

what do you guys have tiny hands?

[Adrian M]

The arcade version of Missile Command (due to the weight and size of the trackball) has a greater tendency to do this (jamming flesh).

 

I never had any major problems with the Centipede, Millipede, etc coin ops, though.

[The Night Phantom]

quote:

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Originally posted by Pyramid-Studios:

no matter how much I try my fingers always get caught in those darn things!

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It could be worse: you could receive continuous electrical shocks every time you play Ms. Pac-Man...

 

[ 01-23-2002: Message edited by: The Night Phantom ]

[Albert]

The worst Trak-Ball offender has to be Atari Football. That game could be brutal on your hands and was also very competitive so you'd have to learn to deal with the pain if you wanted to win. To quote from KLOV:

 

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Painfully sore palms and pinched fingers have rendered the hands of unseasoned players useless for days.

 

I never really had a problem with Atari's later games, although I am sometimes wary to this day whenever I sit down to play a Trak-Ball game.

 

..Al

[liquid_sky]

quote:

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what do you guys have tiny hands?

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Im not that big of a guy (6 foot even)

I just have a tendency to i dunno.. get my ass kicked!

[Lemmi]

I was just playing around about the tiny hands comment

 

the only game to hurt my hands was a arcade golf game called Golden Tee my hands never got pinched but the outside of my thumbs got sore after the 10th game in a row tho

[moycon]

Its not that thier hands are too tiny Lemmi, Its that thier skin is too loose. Damn I hate loose skin!!!!

[rasty]

moycon: that's probably due to an excess of bologna sandwiches

[moycon]

Its when you stop eating the sandwiches that you have a problem. In fact my skins feelin a tad loose... Time to taunt'n it up a bit. *munch*

[Cassidy Nolen]

The larger track balls tended to wear the bearing shafts deeply after years of arcade abuse. I had an Atari Football table about two years ago that was really worn (aka, broken in if you are on ebay language!). Man, that thing was a monster. It would get so much play, and we all hated it. Ah, the joys of games. I had my college ring on one time, and it grabbed in between that and my finger. EEEWWWW was the blister. Good thing I am left handed.

 

Cassidy

[Uncle Duke]

quote:

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Originally posted by The Night Phantom:

It could be worse: you could

receive continuous electrical shocks every time you play

Ms. Pac-Man

...

 

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lol, good point! Have any of you guys had the pain and suffering of also, having to "pretend" to play those arcade games? Now in my opinion that is even worse than getting my finger jammed... Luckily now I learned to save my lunch money and search the washing machine and couches well... So I dont have that problem anymore...

 

((my parents...love them dearly, but they are extreme...Tight-Wads...))

[ATARIPITBULL]

I'm just happy that it was the skin on your hand that got caught in the roller ball and not the skin of some other place on your body in case you were doing something weird with the machine.

[Uncle Duke]

AAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW, LOL, dont even go there, man! Thats sick... But I did see this picture of this super hot chick, licking a standard 2600 joystick once.... That was sort of a turn on. If anyones got that picture, post it! LOL

[+-^CrossBow^-]

Hehe...that was my Sig pic for awhile...but I got rid of it cause there was concern over the nature...and the amount of space the messages took with it.

 

But just once for old times sake:

 

 

I may just have to start using this one again...hehehe...

[Uncle Duke]

Yep, thats the picture, lol!

[NE146]

Actually, that's how I usually clean my 2600 controllers...