According to the advertisement for www.videogameseizures.com, the gaming industry has a dirty little secret: Playing videogames may cause your epileptic kid to experience a seizure.
Astonished that the videogame companies would keep this information from us, I rushed to my room to burn my collection. However, while I was dousing the sizable pile with gasoline, my eye flickered (my god, the seizures had begun just by looking at the cases!) to the instruction manual for Borderlands, which had fallen open to the first page. “Important Health Warning About Playing Video Games”, it exclaimed, prompting me to pocket the unlit matches, “A very small percentage of people may experience a seizure when exposed to certain visual images, including flashlights or patterns that may appear in videogames.” The warning continued on for three more paragraphs before ending. My first reaction was to grab all of my flashlights and throw them in the pile as well, but as I cast the first illumination device into the soon-to-be inferno, I thought perhaps before burning the mound of electronics I should think the entire notion through.
Perhaps, I thought, the warning is only on newer games, in order for the evil gaming companies to claim they had done all that they could in the face of the heroic lawers, Kenny & Kenny. Sure that it was a clever ploy, I grabbed Burnout Revenge for the Playstation 2. Same warning. This troubled me. Surely, the internet would never lie to me… right?
The evil gaming companies “Dirty Little Secret” doesn’t seem all that “Secret” to me.
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One, I can’t believe there is a website dedicated to that. Two, it’s sad because that website probably gets way more views than us
this is a great title for an article.