Super bonus before Mars......... is there some secret bonus feature
in Gyruss that I've never discovered in all these years of playing?
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As for CTS/RSI/OOS or whatever you want to call it. Remember that
it's not so much solely repetition of movements that causes these
problems but rather the strain of holding the fingers/hands in the
one position until you use them. Some studies have actually shown
that permanently having the muscles tensed (as holding an autofire
button down would require) can actually be worse than repeatedly
pressing the keys. (That's partly the reason they dropped the RSI
definition for this problem.)
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That said, while I do suffer the effects of OOS after long periods of
typing on the keyboard - like after an 8 hour day of programming at
work - I seldom if ever have the same problem with playing Mame and
have never had a problem when using a real arcade machine. Not even
when I played Bomb Jack for 24 hours. Unfortunately that was not on
TG settings so my 70 million does not count for the book - that and
the fact that I didn't know about TG back then so I didn't have an
independent judge available to verify the score either.
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BeeJay.
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bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz