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Fever Gaming

Posted by Nadia Oxford

Many in the Game Kingdom have experienced gaming while under the influence of, er, illicit substances. We won't go into detail about those sins, but instead we'll talk about a similar, more legitimate gaming experience: gaming while sick. Hey, if your immune system crawls off to the pub and leaves you at the mercy of a high fever, can The Man blame you for enjoying the pretty colours your brain soothes you with while it slowly turns into fricassee?

I speak from experience. This weekend, which was a gloriously warm Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, I found myself knocked out with the flu. Today, I'm able to sit up again and this coincides with my decision to keep on living.

I was honestly too sick to game at all this weekend, but I remember some good times when the doctor prescribed long doses of "sit down and don't move" and gaming became my number-one pastime. One summer I had major surgery that left me pretty much unable to do anything fun except game. That was the summer I became unsettlingly good at Street Fighter for the Super Nintendo. It was also the first time I played Final Fantasy II (SNES). If you want an eerie experience, land on the Moon for the first time, while playing by yourself in the dark and jacked up on painkillers.

Speaking of, a friend of mine had a special experience playing Super Mario Kart while loaded up on Tylenol 3's after his wisdom tooth removal: "Mario hit a ramp and didn't come down for ten minutes."

I've got a long road to recovery so I think I'll download Secret of Mana on Virtual Console to help soothe me into a doze. Yessssss!

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Roto13 said:

"Mario hit a ramp and didn't come down for ten minutes."

Oh good lord.

I'm better at games when I'm tired or sick. Especially Guitar Hero. I zone out and let it play itself....

October 13, 2008 4:57 PM

Bob Mackey said:

I played through the first Arc the Lad while recovering from wisdom teeth extraction and hopped up on medical goofballs.  I guess the game was pretty easy.

October 13, 2008 8:28 PM

Rebecca said:

My Final Fantasy II experience revolved around the chicken pox.

I was a junior in high school before I caught the pox, and I missed all of my spring vacation, but not a single day of school.  That sucked.

But on the upside, a friend lent me his Super Nintendo and an RPG to play.  Thanks to Cecil and his crew, I kept my hands on the controller and the scratching to a minimum.

October 14, 2008 9:03 PM

Demaar said:

I get even better at Guitar Hero when drunk. Or at least, at the time, I think I'm doing better than normal, heh.

October 14, 2008 10:21 PM

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Nadia Oxford is a housekeeping robot who was refurbished into a warrior when the world's need for justice was great. Now that the galaxy is at peace (give or take a conflict here or there), she works as a freelance writer for various sites and magazines. Based in Toronto, Nadia prizes the certificate from the Ministry of Health declaring her tick and rabies-free.

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