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Posted by Steven Wu on Sunday, March 07 @ 18:04:53 EST Oddities
Nintendo has been sued for failing to comply with federal requirements that it report on the potentially seizure-causing light patterns in its video games.
Some people who are sensitive to certain patterns or qualities of light can suffer a seizure if exposed to those patterns or qualities, according to latest testimony in the final portion of a two-part trial. And some video games may have contained those patterns or qualities of light. . . .

At issue now is what Nintendo knew about a possible connection between seizures and video games and whether Nintendo's years of package warnings, self-imposed game-creation guidelines and correspondence with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission were adequate under federal law.

The article makes Nintendo seem very reasonable, and the suing family very unreasonable.
 
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Re: Nintendo Sued for Seizures (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, March 07 @ 18:24:38 EST
Well, it was an episode of Pokemon (the TV show, not the games) that caused all those seizures in Japan. I think it was the flash from some explosion (red/blue alternations, persisted for several seconds) that was eventually blamed.

Of course, NOA *has* printed warnings for people with epilepsy or who might be prone to it not to play the games, since SFAIK, it's pretty unpredictable what will cause the seizures...


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