He tells them that Team Rocket stole his prototype Porygon, a digital Pokémon that can exist in cyberspace, and is using it to steal trainers' Pokémon from inside the computer system.Īkihabara sends Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu and his second Porygon into the cyberspace system, using his Dimension Transporter, to stop Team Rocket, whom they learn have set up a blockade that stops Pokéballs from traveling the network. On Nurse Joy's request, they go to Professor Akihabara, the one who created the Poké Ball transfer system. Since then, the episode has been parodied and referenced in cultural media, including The Simpsons episode " Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" and the South Park episode " Chinpokomon".Īsh, Misty, Brock and Pikachu make their way to the nearest Pokémon Center, where they discover that the Poké Ball transmitting device is malfunctioning. After that, the time slot changed from Tuesday to Thursday.
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As a result of this incident, Nintendo ordered the episode pulled from rotation and it has not aired in any country since.Īfter the incident, the Pokémon anime went into a four-month hiatus, removing the TV Tokyo red circle "チュッ!" logo from the Japanese anime, and it returned on TV Tokyo on April 16, 1998. The shares of Nintendo, the company that produced the games they were based on, fell by about 3.2%. 685 children across Japan were taken to hospitals two remained hospitalized for more than two weeks. The episode contained repetitive visual effects that induced photosensitive epileptic seizures in a substantial number of Japanese viewers, an incident referred to as the "Pokémon Shock" ( ポケモンショック, Pokemon Shokku) by the Japanese press.
To find out what is wrong, they must go inside the machine. In the episode, Ash and his friends find at the local Pokémon Center that there is something wrong with the Poké Ball transmitting device. Its sole broadcast was in Japan on December 16, 1997. " Dennō Senshi Porygon" ( Japanese: でんのうせんしポリゴン, Hepburn: Dennō Senshi Porigon, translated as "Computer Warrior Porygon", although more commonly "Electric Soldier Porygon") is the 38th episode of the Pokémon anime's first season. In one of the scenes believed to have caused epileptic seizures, Pikachu uses a "Thunderbolt" attack on a cyber missile, making the screen flash red and blue rapidly.
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