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Video games, like any other entertainment, should treat without fanaticism. Many remember how they died in South Korea. teenagers spending all day playing the most popular Starcraft game Online. “The cause of death for young people was exhaustion, dehydration and lack of sleep. One Asian even managed die of thirst by playing “Starcraft Online” on your laptop in round-the-clock cafe.
The emergence of an unusual game
The July 6th multiplayer video game “Pokemon Go” with augmented reality function, which is literally a few days managed to cause real mass hysteria in the West. However now people no longer sit in homes and fast food establishments at their computers and laptops, and actively travel with smartphones on city streets, looking for virtual luggage, which is often spills out into curious, and sometimes even tragic, cases.
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“Pokemon Go” provides its players with maps of their cities, where in various places, for example, in parks, near fountains, on lawns, in museums house Pokémon – animals from Japanese comics and animations. To see a Pokemon, you need to point at it the phone’s camera, and then the drawn animal will be displayed on the screen in the middle of the real environment. The goal of the game is to catch animals with a gadget, and then use for virtual battles with other players. And I must say that the competition here is just huge, because Pokémon do not appear everywhere, and the number of players is growing in geometric progression.
The amazing popularity of the game
In just a week, the number of Pokemon Go players exceeded the number users of any social network of the planet. People walk in crowds streets, including in the dark, wanting to find another invisible animal. For example, the entry below shows how a huge number of people rush at night in new york Central Park, where a rare Pokemon appeared. Arrived at cars people throw their cars right on the road. Moreover, there have already been cases where during such mass searches, individuals received serious injuries and almost trampled. Also known at least one fatal car accident caused by which became the game “Pokemon Go”.
Unpleasant incidents in Western countries
A girl from Wyoming, looking for Pokemon near the river, by chance stumbled upon a corpse. Two other young people from the USA, looking for animals fell from a cliff. Young people buried in smartphones during such a pastime under the wheels of transport and in ditches. A group of criminals has appeared in Missouri, which looking for rare Pokemon, but did not catch them, but sat in an ambush. When another nothing came for the beast suspicious player; attackers beat and robbed him.
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In Florida, a man tried to shoot a group of teenagers whom mistook for crackers. Young people looking for Pokemon came up too close to his house. Another Florida resident, twenty-one-year-old Michael Baker, walked in, playing, into a dysfunctional area and was attacked. Having been stabbed, already bleeding, the young man first nevertheless caught the coveted pokemon and then just called an ambulance.
Tom Carrie from New Zealand quit his job so she doesn’t distracted him from the search for fictional animals.
Does Pokemon Go drive almost everyone crazy anywhere?
Law enforcement officers succumb to such hype and even the largest politicians. In America, they were repeatedly seen policemen pacing the city in search of virtual luggage. And Israeli President Reuven Rivlin found one Pokemon right in in his office, which he hastened to share with the Internet community. “I think I should call the security service,” joked Rivlin.
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In many countries illegal “Pokemon taxi drivers” appear who for a fee will carry you around the city from one luggage to another. Cafe owners discovering Pokemon in their institutions immediately indicate this information on the signs, and visitors really come in droves. And here are libraries, museums and other serious institutions are not happy with such attention. For instance, Arlington National Cemetery in the USA, Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum and a number of American parks called for visitors refuse to catch Pokemon in their establishments, threatening introduce official bans with fines.
A harmful gift to the western world of Russia
Mass hysteria has already reached the Russian Federation. In our country, you can still download only a hacked version of the game, but the other day should official appear. Domestic police more than once detained young people looking for Pokemon in the streets. Guards law enforcement, not familiar with global gaming trends, mistake teenagers for addicts looking for bookmarks with prohibited substances. And Sberbank offered users “Pokemon Go” insurance against injuries associated with the game.
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The Russian authorities have already begun to discuss the “Pokemon Go”. Opinion officials regarding the overpopular game divided. Alone parliamentarians are convinced that it is not worth restricting or banning it, others believe that this cultural phenomenon and its impact on society require careful study by specialists. Obviously with the moment of the release of “Pokemon Go” was not even a crescent, but already there are many examples of negative consequences from this game – one more “mass infection”.
Time Russia USA
