Game console linked to skin disorder

We all know that obsessively playing video games can potentially lead to a variety of problems, but can it also be bad for your skin?

Skin specialists in the U.K. think so. The BBC reports that a new condition stemming from excessive gaming has been noted in the British Journal of Dermatology.

Swiss doctors first identified the condition -- dubbed Playstation palmar hidradenitis -- after examining a 12 year-old girl afflicted with painful bumps on the palms of her hands.

Thinking it was related to sweating, the docs eventually reached the new diagnosis after being told that she was playing a whole lot of

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Hell, that's nothing. Back in MY day we didn't even have d-pads. If you wanted to control a game, you had one option, that was, use the joystick. You could use a keyboard if you had a Commodore 64 and were dumb enough to think it would work. Nobody had invented the hand-cramp instigation device (mouse) and there wasn't a huge crowd of fanatics insisting it was the only thing to control a game with, so developers ignored the keyboard anyhow, except for role playing games like Ultima and Bard's Tale. Other than that, joystick.