WHY POKEMON COULD RUIN YOUR LIFE

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WHY POKEMON COULD RUIN YOUR LIFE
Tweet Topic Started: Feb 14 2007, 10:19 PM (547 Views)
* Itagaki Manabu	Feb 14 2007, 10:19 PM Post #1
Posts: 4,635 Group: Retired Staff Member #832 Joined: November 6, 2005	"Denn身 Senshi Polygon" (匹氏及丹六氏仄禾伉打件, Denn身 Senshi Porigon?, frequently translated as "Electric Soldier Porygon", but more accurately "Electric Brain Soldier Porygon") was aired in Japan on December 16, 1997, around 18:30 Japanese time (09:30 UTC), and became infamous for causing a number of epileptic seizures in young viewers. It is now banned worldwide, including Japan. About 20 minutes into the episode "Denn身 Senshi Polygon", there was a scene in which Pikachu stops some rockets with his lightning attack, resulting in a huge explosion that flashed red and blue lights. Although there were similar parts in the episode with red and blue flashes, this scene was extremely intense, with blinks at a rate of about 12 Hz for approximately 4 seconds in almost full screen, and then for 2 seconds outright fullscreen. At this point, viewers started to complain of blurred vision, headaches, dizziness and nausea, actual cases of the motif of harmful sensation. A few people even had seizures, blindness, convulsions and lost consciousness. Japan's Fire Defense Agency reported that a total of 685 children (310 boys, 375 girls) were taken to hospitals by ambulances. Many children recovered during the ambulance trip, although more than 150 of them were admitted to hospitals. Only two people stayed in the hospital for over 2 weeks. Scientists believe that the flashing lights triggered "photosensitive seizures" in which visual stimuli such as flashing lights can cause altered consciousness. Although scientists know that approximately 1 in 4000 people (0.5 - 0.8% of children between 5-13 years old) are susceptible to these types of seizures, the number of people affected by this Pok谷mon episode was unprecedented. The effect may have been amplified by many of the children sitting up close to the TV in a poorly lit room.



yellowhairedguy20	Feb 14 2007, 11:04 PM Post #2
Ribbit Posts: 1,648 Group: Board Founder Member #1 Joined: October 23, 2004 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime Dragonball Z What Browser do you use? Firefox	Wow, that's pretty crazy. It's hard to believe that it did that much damage. 685 kids! I wonder why they thought they needed so many flashing lights...



* Itagaki Manabu	Feb 15 2007, 03:53 AM Post #3
Posts: 4,635 Group: Retired Staff Member #832 Joined: November 6, 2005	GLARES pokemon can never have too much of anything EXCEPT pokemon lol



rem11	Feb 15 2007, 04:01 AM Post #4
Posts: 381 Group: Member Member #2,056 Joined: February 4, 2007	pokemon should be cancled already!!!! i mean seriously it droped when they started introducing loads of new pokemon, the only pokemon related thing still popular is the gb/gba/nds games. btw did the people that made the ep get fired lol



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