Talk:Lavender Town Syndrome/@comment-24468828-20140131053754

From what I know of the story, what REALLY happened was that the first releases of the game had a binaural midi track, meaning 2 tracks, one for left and one for the right. If you were wearing headphones, you would hear a different track in each ear. After extended play with headphones, this DID cause migraines in several children and 4 deaths, though people debate on the cause of those deaths. Popular opinion is either brain swelling or heart attack. 200 copies of the game WERE returned to the stores with parents complaining of "illnesses" (headaches) and in the 2nd release of the game the midi was changed to a single audio track. There hasn't been another issue since, other than the natural headache you get from listening to ANY midi track for a long time.