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[quote name="conflictNo"]<a href=http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116441076273232312-IHR8Xf3YEG61QlW0e7hA_kHAA8w_20061224.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top>When Videogames Hurt.</a> [quote name="WSJ"]They[gamers]'re reporting aching backs, sore shoulders -- even something some have dubbed "Wii elbow."[/quote] This guy has been doing some serious field work during the one week that the Wii has been out, keeping his ear to the streets. [quote name="WSJ"]"It's harder than playing basketball," says Kaitlin Franke, a 12-year-old from Louisville, Ky. She has been camped out in front of her family's TV, fine-tuning her bowling motion and practicing boxing footwork in two of the Wii's games. Almost immediately, she says, her right arm started to feel numb.[/quote] Childhood diabetes : ( [quote name="WSJ"]Another hazard: collisions. All those flailing arms can sometimes inadvertently smack into lamps, furniture and even competing players. IGN.com, a popular site that reviews videogames, said one player testing the Wii lost her grip and sent the controller flying into a wall. Blaine Stuart of Rochester, N.Y., mistakenly whacked his fiancée, Shelly Haefele, while playing tennis and also accidentally hit his dog while bowling.[/quote] I guess this is the part where the story would have gotten interesting had anything actually happened. MEANWHILE, who will provide seed money for me to develop a Wii controller lanyard attachment?! [quote name="WSJ"]Nintendo itself warns players about this risk just before some of the games begin. A message flashes up on the screen saying: "Make sure there are no people or objects around you that you might bump into while playing." Some Wii games also have pop-up reminders every 15 minutes advising gamers to take a break.[/quote] A better article would have had this part at the top and then really nothing else. Here's a sidebar mini-review of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (?!): [quote name="WSJ"]The latest in long-running series, protagonist Link is in a foreign land fighting an evil force. <b>Includes fishing sound effects.</b>[/quote] [/quote]