Lavender Town Suicides

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thread starter TheLastSamurai Jul 19 2010 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

For those of you that don't know It's an old rumor that went around years ago. First of all, do you remember this song ? Full story here When �Pokemon� was first released in Japan, there was an odd phenomenon between children ages 7-12, particularly in those using headphones to listen to the sound effects. Increase of nosebleeds, irritability, insomnia, and addiction to the game, playing for hours and hours on end and crying to the point of vomiting when the opportunity was taken away. Roughly 70% of these cases ended in suicide. In almost every case of the aforementioned symptoms, despite gameplay time recorded to the limit of the internal clock, the game had not progressed further than �Lavender Town�. A closer analysis of the game revealed a tone in the audio of the music for �Lavender Town� at a pitch undetectable by fully developed human ear drums. Within weeks every unsold copy of the �first edition� the game were recalled silently and the game was re-released with re-mastered audio for �Lavender Town�. The widely known version is said to be missing three extra tones, as well as the unique, binaural tone of the first edition, although this is unconfirmed due to the rarity of working first edition copies; in the known few that remain, the internal clock and �battery save� have all timed out and ceased function, and in many cases the game will freeze upon entering any battle. The details of the story began to be passed around in mid 1997, said to originate from www.cornus.lensig net/index538a.html, a defunct URL without credibility. YouTube embed is the widely known second edition version of the �Lavender Town� song, if you don�t remember how it sounds or never have known. Listening to Lavendar Town theme song just now gave me the chills..

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Ramunesun 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

isn't this like the 5th time this was posted?

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raisuke 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

by the same person too

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uberkoolio 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

This one destroys that story.

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TheLastSamurai 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] raisuke : by the same person too [/quote] *shrugs*

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FasterthenU 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I read all of that yeserday FAAAAKEEEE

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RemixArtist 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] TheLastSamurai : *shrugs* [/quote] Why broh, why?

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zerosocks 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Yeah Lavender Town always scared me a little bit when I was a kid (Not the 2nd gen one though). I remember reading this story on basil a couple of months ago though.

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KingCrimson 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

In RBY you meet your rival in Lavender and he asks you sarcastically if you have a dead Pokemon to bury. The last time you battled him was on the SS Anne, where he had a Raticate. The next time you battle him, that Raticate is gone. Think about it a bit. Also, ya know how in GSC the Pokemon tower (Where pokemon were buried) is replaced with a radio tower? Yeah that's right, they changed a graveyard into a radio tower. Isn't that nice of em.

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tuffghost 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

http://icarus.cantbeunseen.com/content/11612/resized/1255824562786.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/TristinCrow/PKMN/1256805290430.jpg

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TheLastSamurai + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] KingCrimson : In RBY you meet your rival in Lavender and he asks you sarcastically if you have a dead Pokemon to bury. The last time you battled him was on the SS Anne, where he had a Raticate. The next time you battle him, that Raticate is gone. Think about it a bit. Also, ya know how in GSC the Pokemon tower (Where pokemon were buried) is replaced with a radio tower? Yeah that's right, they changed a graveyard into a radio tower. Isn't that nice of em. [/quote] A Cubone looks like a baby Kangeskan @above...heh yeah

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Ramunesun 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] KingCrimson : In RBY you meet your rival in Lavender and he asks you sarcastically if you have a dead Pokemon to bury. The last time you battled him was on the SS Anne, where he had a Raticate. The next time you battle him, that Raticate is gone. Think about it a bit. Also, ya know how in GSC the Pokemon tower (Where pokemon were buried) is replaced with a radio tower? Yeah that's right, they changed a graveyard into a radio tower. Isn't that nice of em. [/quote] he did not have time to get off the ship and heal his raticate so his raticate died.

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TheLastSamurai 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Ramunesun : he did not have time to get off the ship and heal his raticate so his raticate died. [/quote] The cheap bastard. Shoulda bought a Phoenix Do- er, Revive

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tuffghost 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Ramunesun : he did not have time to get off the ship and heal his raticate so his raticate died. [/quote] could of just put it into bill's pc he did catch 40 kinds od pokemon, pal look for them in tall grass

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gkdmstjr 07/19/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

lol when i was 11 i beat that game fine, and wasnt addicted. but it was leaf green, the remixed version. i didnt understand that part about the undevelped earbones. elaborate please.

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