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[Alcibiades]

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk...e=epilepsy-alert-over-nintendo-name_page.html

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...Professor Graham Harding, former director of the Neurosciences Research Institute at Aston University and a world expert on photosensitive epilepsy, has discovered four Nintendo computer games which contain flashing repetitive light sequences which could induce seizures.

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Prof Harding found that Mega Man X, Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime and Mario Kart: Double Dash contain light patterns which could cause a seizure in about one in 4,000 people...

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People aged between seven and 20 are five times more at risk than the rest of the population...

Nintendo = dangerous

dangerous = not for kids

not for kids = mature

Nintendo = mature

And people say the media isn't biased... how many PS2 games probably be worse like Rez or something

If GAF has a readership of about 10,000, that means 2-3 of us could have gotten seizures :O

 

[sprsk]

heyyy, thats why they put seizure warnings in the instruction manual!!

 

[Alcibiades]

... and on the covers... like who reads manuals anyway... or looks at those warnings anyway...

actually, I've seen them, but I pay no mind...

not sure how dangerous seizures are, but I'm not sensitive to that stuff or anything so I don't have to worry...

 

[AssMan]

What about F Zero GX?

 

[AirBrian]

What about F Zero GX?

That's dangerous too. But the danger from F-Zero GX is from flying controllers thrown by pissed-off players.

 

[IJoel]

That's dangerous too. But the danger from F-Zero GX is from flying controllers thrown by pissed-off players.

This poster speaketh the truth.

 

[BuddyC]

In a related story, researchers today revealed that living means one must someday die. Most are likely to experience a type of pain during their existence in the mortal realm. Down with God! WHERE ARE THE WARNINGS?!

 

[Mairu]

 

[Deleted member 284]

Everyone of those games are in the BBC Outrageous Fortunes show about Nintendo.

 

[Wario64]

Didnt that one court case about that family suing Nintendo for seizures wanted some epilepsy warning during actual gameplay? Or on bootup or some crap? Friggin lame

 

[Baconäger]

Yeah, I remember them showing these on the BBC thing (except for Prime I think). What a bunch of pussies/whiners.

 

[cvxfreak]

1/4000 really isn't a huge margin but 1/4001 and so forth would at least show Nintendo's improving.

 

[Alcibiades]

Didnt that one court case about that family suing Nintendo for seizures wanted some epilepsy warning during actual gameplay? Or on bootup or some crap? Friggin lame

yeah, about a year or so ago, I remember the news stories...

 

[TheAdamantShot]

When I was a little kid, I was playing Mega Man 2 at a friend's place when I defeated one of the major bosses, the ones that caused the screen to flash rapidly, and my friend's kid brother had a seizure. Scariest thing I had ever seen up to that point. And then their folks banned games from their home.