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Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
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lugnet.promo
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 05:43:37 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, Erin Windross writes:
> In lugnet.promo, Tobias Möller writes:
> > Yeah, but it all started with the videogame didn´t it? I read that the idea
> > for pokémon came in 1995, when the game started to be developed. Perhaps the
> > anime came before the game. I think it did, because the "pokémon" show was
> > on the TV news when lots of children had to go to a hospital after wathcing
> > it(1). That was back in 97, and the game was released in 98, i think.
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> > --Tobias
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> > (1)The reason was that the background flashed from red to blue more than 50
> > times (could be more or less) during one second. That gave some children
> > epilepsy.
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> I do remember hearing about that in the news, but I don't think it was Pokemon
> <remembers the episode of the Simpsons where they featured them going to Japan
> then watching one of those cartoons and getting sezuires> *starts to laugh*
> But seriously though I don't think it was Pokemon, and I heard the report in
> early 99'.
It was indeed an episode of the Pokemon cartoon that caused a
an epidemic of epilepsy attacks among japanese children. What's
hilarious / really sad is that one of the the evening news shows
in Japan showed a clip from the same cartoon while discussing
the story that evening, and a second wave of attacks hit as numerous
adults were similarly stricken with seizures.
--
jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| (...) I do remember hearing about that in the news, but I don't think it was Pokemon <remembers the episode of the Simpsons where they featured them going to Japan then watching one of those cartoons and getting sezuires> *starts to laugh* But (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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