Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon”
Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon”
As an Epileptic, I’ve been very outspoken about my opinions on the increased use of strobe lighting effects in American cartoons. Yet people have accused me of being a hypocrite: why do I continue to love Pokémon? My response often surprises people. That, in my personal opinion, morally speaking, th...
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Really interesting perspective on this issue. Out of curiosity at one point, I got my hands on the porygon episode and the flashing is certainly jarring. It didn't really bother me, but my wife said it gave her a headache (just a minor one, not a migraine fortunately). I had no idea that there was so much that came out of that incident. Really neat!
I wonder if different screen technology at the time made it worse (CRT then, vs LCD now)?
Hmm, I bet it has more to do with brightness and contrast more than anything else. So, in that respect, CRTs are significantly dimmer than modern LCDs. Additionally, CRTs were just much smaller than most people's living room TVs these days, so it would take up a much smaller portion of somebody's field of view. It's an interesting question though.