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[adamcolvin]

Did you know that, Dennō Senshi Porygon, a 1997 episode of the Japanese animated television program Pokémon was involved in an incident in which reportedly 685 young viewers were taken to hospitals by ambulances after experiencing epileptic seizures (most of the patients recovered on the way to hospitals, although over 150 children were admitted to hospital care). The seizures were provoked by a scene in the episode of an explosion during which solid red and blue patterns blinked at a rate of about 12 Hz for about 6 seconds. Currently, the episode is banned worldwide, including in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia...._Senshi_Porygon

[Trainman 2000]

That one i've heard of. It was parodied on the Simpsons...

Edited by Trainman 2000, 06 November 2007 - 03:20 PM.

[adamcolvin]

^on the link I gave you, scroll down to 'Cultural influences' and you can see the Simpsons picture

[surfn4887339]

Did you know that, Dennō Senshi Porygon, a 1997 episode of the Japanese animated television program Pokémon was involved in an incident in which reportedly 685 young viewers were taken to hospitals by ambulances after experiencing epileptic seizures (most of the patients recovered on the way to hospitals, although over 150 children were admitted to hospital care). The seizures were provoked by a scene in the episode of an explosion during which solid red and blue patterns blinked at a rate of about 12 Hz for about 6 seconds. Currently, the episode is banned worldwide, including in Japan.

ok, i'm confused. how did they start to have seizures all of a sudden?

[adamcolvin]

^The constant flashing in the one battle scene.

[Trainman 2000]

Yeah. Lol, I watched it but then I was like - whoa.

[philcar1994]

did you kow that Canada has better hockey teams?
(te he just had to do that!)

[adamcolvin]

^haha nice.

Did you know that NASA spent a over a whopping 10 million dollars to invent a pen that could be used in space. The Russians brought up a pencil with them

Did you know that you can never fail? Because once you do fail, you have succeed at failing it.

Edited by adamcolvin, 16 November 2007 - 04:52 AM.

[Trainman 2000]

Well, that's a picker-upper.

[Christian Benvenuto]

Did you know that Cedar Point was originally going to be torn down in the 1950's? yet, letters and the Governor of Ohio (at the time) stopped the park's destruction?
Read it on Wikipedia, and that just freaked me out (a little)