Super bonus before Mars......... is there some secret bonus feature in Gyruss that I've never discovered in all these years of playing?(posted 9665 days ago)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.)
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. :-(
BeeJay.