Video game conspiracies surround deaths, nightmares, epilepsy, missing children, and visits from Men in Black.
- 1981 Berzerk - 19 year old Jeff Dailey died of a heart attack soon after posting a score of 16,660 in the arcade game. One year later, 18 year old Peter Burkowski also died of a heart attack moments after cracking the Berzerk top-ten high score list twice in fifteen minutes. The sequence of numbers 666 were found to be in the scores.
- 1989 Killswitch - Upon beating the game, the program would self delete on your hard drive.
- 1996 Pokemon Red and Green - child suicide spike, only in Japan, when reaching Lavendar Town.
- 2008 Fallout 3 - Throughout the game, players pick up radio signals in the wasteland. Occasionally, a series of numbers, which sounds like Morse code will be broadcast through your pep-boy. It's claimed that the code predicted the Deepwater Horizon oilrig disaster right down to the day and hour.
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- 20 Video Game Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Urban Legends to Celebrate Halloween, by Hanuman Welch, OCT 31, 2013