The funny thing is, back in the early to mid 1980's, doctors were actually diagnosing a condition called "Atari Thumb!" Apparantly numerous children were complaining of cramping in the palm of their hand and pain in their thumb joints from overuse of the ergonomically-challenged design of the old Atari 2600 joysticks... Those were the days...
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The funny thing is, back in the early to mid 1980's, doctors were actually diagnosing a condition called "Atari Thumb!" Apparantly numerous children were complaining of cramping in the palm of their hand and pain in their thumb joints from overuse of the ergonomically-challenged design of the old Atari 2600 joysticks... Those were the days...