Professional skateboarding looks utterly terrifying, but even the timid can do kick flips, air walks and nose grabs in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 from NeverSoft. . . . [If] you have no fear or common sense, skateboarding looks as though it could be fun, and Tony Hawk 3 provides an opportunity to ride a skateboard onto moving cars and glide across telephone lines with no risk of injury beyond what my orthopedist calls Nintendo Thumb.

Another hazard is "Game Boy thumb" (also known as Nintendo thumb or numb thumb), an injury resulting from habitual use of push-button controllers on computer and video games.

There is also the faint possibility of an attack of Nintendo Thumb, or Nintenditis. Nicole LaBruzzy, a 17-year-old from Utica, Michigan, is unable to carry a shopping bag and is suing Nintendo for damage to the thumb caused by over-enthusiastic pounding of Game Boy.