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Gaming’s most memorable epidemics

H1N1 isn’t the only hyped up pandemic – games have plenty of infectious diseases to offer

Words: Tyler Wilde, GamesRadar US

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Silentboy - 6 months 22 days ago

Corrupted Blood, I NEVER want to deal with that again. I only found refuge in Redrigdge

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Romination - 6 months 22 days ago

a definite, glaring one that is missing!
I'm sure Carolyn is going to start kicking your ass about it. The Pokerus from Pokemon!

http://www.serebii.net/games/pokerus.shtml

so there

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StarbucksAssassin - 6 months 22 days ago

Great memory with the Oregon Trail game. Who could forget dying of dysentery. Awesome!

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Ded - 6 months 22 days ago

Aw! You didn't mention the Zombie Plague intentionally released before WoW's latest expansion hit.
Started off with a few infected bugs and crates, which spread to players. When the plague counted down to zero, you turned into a zombie, and could infect other players, friend or foe :D

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CAPST3R - 6 months 22 days ago

lol, i got the let sleeping rockstars lie trophy on my first online game! (of course, trophies weren't on gta4 then, but i got the zombie costume) and H1N1 is nothing but a news epidemic. how many people, with access to medical care, have died? 1? maybe 2? 3 at most. we have an antibiotic, i think we nearly have a vaccine, and it's not exactly a silent killer. i don't think we'll be able to get rid of it completely because of how fast it spreads, but i reckon it's just going to be a pain in 'yer other arm in winter. it'll just become a second flu. it's the media that make it a big thing. (general media, not specific media like gaming. they just laugh in it's face.)

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Lucretiel - 6 months 21 days ago

Not Left 4 Dead's Plague? Ah well. The WoW thing fascinates me to no end

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noobeater - 6 months 21 days ago

i never played wow, tho iv played some other mmorpg but that blood thing on there sounded really interesting, oh and funny coz noobs probably died,

lots

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deathrebellion - 6 months 21 days ago

how come AIDS(HIV+) nevr made it to a game

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KidKobun - 6 months 21 days ago

Feature has already been done close to two weeks ago:
http://tinyurl.com/qfouej

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MOOMAN - 6 months 20 days ago

WTF?! why do you WANT to contract a disease? AWESOME!!!!!!! I CAN BE ALL ZOMBIE AND STUFF! I WILL KILL THE KITTENS!!!

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phoenix_wings - 6 months 19 days ago

Ho hum. I'm watching a show on TB. Apparently, the number one killer of people who have HIV is TB. That's probably why HIV and AIDS haven't made it into video games. See, pixilated people dying of dysentery and invasions of giant penises, zombification and the like is kind of humourous (I suppose the Cursed Blood can be similar....) but AIDS/HIV is not. Plus, in looking at AIDS/HIV you generally have to look at the causes of it, which most video games really don't want to get into.

Also, if people started transforming into gigantic floating penises, I'd consider myself significantly worried. But it's only Second Life, and that was hysterical.

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CAPST3R - 6 months 19 days ago

@MOOMAN;
awww, don't kill the kittens. but kill the adult cats, i'm allergic to them. and kill the plants too, they give me hayfever.
i will not be held responsible if he turns out to be a nutcase and actually does this. it is a joke.
how the bloody hell are you supposed to write this recaptcha? it's 1/2 in 1 symbol! i'm changing it.

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