Video game turns into reality

[GaryE30]

http://www.hawtalta.com/viewvideo.php?id=343

Crazy.

[Il Duce]

that is flippin crazy...

worth a watch if you like video games, and have an extra 5 min...

[Ryan Stewart]

I dont like video games and I thought that was cool. What a way to mind-fuck someone. I wonder if its real.

[KenC]

Better, yet... I wonder what kind of psychological damage that would cause...

[Jand3rson]

That's bullshit. First off, the guy's friends don't really seem to be too worried when their friend just nods off while standing playing a video game. Better still, they don't even mind at all when some guy comes out of a room with a camera crew, grabs the guy and drags him off, straps him to a gurney, and wheels him down the street into a strange, dimly lit, empty building.

Furthermore, a human being cannot just be immediatley "dropped" into the hypnotic, almost vegitative state that he was in through being subjected to a series of a few flashing lights. If that were the case, every kid that ever played Wipeout or Dance Dance Revolution, or watched an episode of Pokemon would be a vegetized pile of flesh in no time flat. On top of that, I doubt a horn blast would slam him out of it that quickly. Did he also just not happen to notice that his gun was a paintball gun? Even if you aren't a paintball player, you've got to know what a paintball gun looks like, added to the fact that you'no doubt know what a real gun sounds like, and it doesn't sound like a paintball gun.

[Charlie]

This video looks like someone taking the idea of the urban legend behind the old game Polybius and expanding apon it.

http://coinop.org/g.aspx/103223/Polybius.html

-Charlie

[bkelsey86]

or watched an episode of Pokemon would be a vegetized pile of flesh in no time flat

you never heard about the seizure problem with that in japan evidently.

[DEV0 E30]

That was amazing, if it is real ... just wow.

[Addissimo]

I have a friend that'd be the perfect candidate for that.

[DEV0 E30]

I'd prolly freak out more then that guy.

[rwh11385]

Better still, they don't even mind at all when some guy comes out of a room with a camera crew, grabs the guy and drags him off, straps him to a gurney, and wheels him down the street into a strange, dimly lit, empty building.

He is like Regis here over there.

[Jon325i]

[Beej '86 325es]

Whether it's true or not, I thought it was friggin' cool. Looks like it was done on a TV show in England or something.

[uflnuceng]

What brit's watch for entertainment is fucked... Whenever I go over there to see my family I know that unless I catch a 5 year old rerun of Friends or an episode of Top Gear, anything other than the news will be a waste of time.

But yeah... complete bullshit. I would just let some strange guy with a camera take a friend of mine out of a pub.

[GaryE30]

What brit's watch for entertainment is fucked... Whenever I go over there to see my family I know that unless I catch a 5 year old rerun of Friends or an episode of Top Gear, anything other than the news will be a waste of time.

But yeah... complete bullshit. I would just let some strange guy with a camera take a friend of mine out of a pub.

Wouldn't?