10 Video Games That Caused Physical Injuries
2. Arm Spirit
There have been many test of strength arcade games over the years. In 2007, Atlus brought Arm Spirit to Japanese arcades... although, admittedly, only briefly.
The game is exactly what it sounds like. With a mechanical, muscular arm protruding from the cabinet, it was the latest arm wrestling game. Finally, a chance to prove that humanity is stronger than a machine! That certainly could never go wrong, right?
Tell that to the at least three people who claim that the cabinet broke their arms.
Atlus' company line at the time was that these cases were likely the result of people basically playing wrong, i.e. "bending their arms in ways they weren't supposed to". Despite recalling the game, they seemed to be holding firm that they were not at fault, claiming that players were probably "overexcited".
It gets worse when they representative allegedly also said it wasn't that strong and that "even women can beat it"! Yikes.
Still, the game's 150 units were lifted from arcades. Presumably there are lines of disembodied mechanical arms in a warehouse somewhere in Japan just waiting for their next hapless challenger.