The game appeared in arcades in the early 1980s. It was titled "Polybius," and gamers were lining up to play it. But the game was buggy and would shut down seemingly at random. Fights started breaking ...

It was the music, they said, that drove the children to madness. The eerie, detuned soundtrack to Pokémon Red’s Lavender Town contained harmful sonic irregularities played at such high frequencies ...