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Warning on game rumble pack thingys.

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01-02-2002 10:26am

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Hobbes

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1792000/1792102.stm

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#2 01-02-2002 10:42am
Saruman

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doubt it happens much, personally i almost never use them... they were not that great.. Force feedback joysticks and steering wheels on the pc are mutch better methinks.

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#3 01-02-2002 10:59am
Shinji

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The 15-year-old boy spent seven hours a day playing computer games and particularly enjoyed those using the vibration mode on the control device.

Seven hours a day. Right. And nobody thought this might be abnormal in any way.

Dr John Sallis, who treated the boy at Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital,said: "It was quite clear this boy had major problems."

Yeah you're telling me mate.

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#4 01-02-2002 6:02pm
Puck

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God another idiot! No-one though it was weird that he was playing the games 7 hours a day?! Whatever happened to common sense?!

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#5 01-02-2002 6:53pm
Pugsley

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He said: "I don't know what the safe limits are but seven hours a day is a bit excessive."

Oh arent docters intelligent??

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