Konami Slot Machines Flashing Subliminal Messages?

shadowspar writes "A Canadian province has pulled several models of Konami slot machines out of service after a news investigation revealed that they briefly flash a jackpot result on the screen every time they are played. Konami claims that the 'subliminal' jackpot images are unintentional and the result of a bug, but other US and Canadian jurisdictions are looking at pulling the machines as well."

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[eldavojohn]

Konami Slot Machines Flashing Subliminal Messages?

Also suspect was the fact that if you pressed up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B and then A, the machine would flash the jackpot screen continually while declaring all its cash "are belong to you." Casinos grew suspicious after younger and younger players continually cleaned out the machine in a methodical manner before eventually treating their "conquering" of the slot as a standard Saturday morning ritual.

I'm sorry, it's Monday and I definitely wish I could UpUpDownDownLeftRightLeftRightBA my job right now. I used to think that this cheat code (or things like the game genie) were detrimental to youthful minds thinking that you just needed to figure out the trick to life and everything was over. I used to think that they would grow up expecting everything to be easy once you were "in on it" and that this would be bad and they would never understand that life is much more complicated. But, you know what? I sadly see more and more everyday that it's a matter of knowing what UpUpDownDownLeftRightLeftRightBA to tell your boss to make him/her think you know what's going on. Or what UpUpDownDownLeftRightLeftRightBA you tell someone to befriend them to hook you up with a position/help. And then it's to the pharmacy where you're given more UpUpDownDownLeftRightLeftRightBA in pill form because your doctor (of which there are thousands of kinds) tells you you need it. Notice the tangents my brain flies off on when it's Monday.

It doesn't work

[Harmonious Botch]

All scientific tests done in a controlled (mod up) environment have come up with the same conclusion: it doesn't work. The one suggestion that (+1) has generated some interest recently, and (+1) has not been tested, is that the most that can be accomplished (modup) is familiarity with the idea. This is (+1) not the same as motivation. So you can put the tin foil hats away.

Re:It doesn't work

[Hrodvitnir]

Mod parent up!

Please, I don't have any mod points, but something tells me this post really needs top moderation.

Re:Subliminal? What about overt?

[ZombieRoboNinja]

They're trying a three-pronged approach: subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal.

What's superliminal, you ask? "HEY YOU, GAMBLE!"

Re:Voting machines do that too!

[Anonymous Coward]

A great excuse. Maybe if the dumbocrats ran a candidate that had a real chance of winning...

Boo hoo, my candidate didn't win. It must be rigged! Boo hoo!

subliminal, liminal, superliminal

[RelliK]

yvaN ehT nioJ

All your pizzas are belong to us?

[Sleeping Kirby]

So all those Ninja Turtle games I've played as a kid was really subliminial messages to get me to buy pizza? No wonder all those kids are so crazy over yugioh. It's all subliminall messages, I tell ya.

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[StarvingSE]

I think you forgot to code.... there's a "start" on the end buddy

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Re:It doesn't work

[Anonymous Coward]

All scientific tests done in a controlled (mod up) environment have come up with the same conclusion: it doesn't work. The one suggestion that (+1) has generated some interest recently, and (+1) has not been tested, is that the most that can be accomplished (modup) is familiarity with the idea. This is (+1) not the same as motivation. So you can put the tin foil hats away.

This post is better than "Cats". I'm going to read it again and again.

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[Nom du Keyboard]

Also suspect was the fact that if you pressed up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B and then A,

Do I need my ocarina equipped for this first?

Re:It doesn't work

[eln]

No no no, that doesn't work. I know I'm going to be modded down for saying this, but the only sure-fire way to get karma on Slashdot is reverse psychology.

Re:it can work... sometimes

[Bastard of Subhumani]

If I flashed a picture of a woman being reaped

You sickl-ittle pervert!

Re:subliminal, liminal, superliminal

[Tihstae]

yvaN ehT nioJ

Have you been reading my nickname again?

Re:Subliminal? What about overt?

[adam613]

Yvan eht nioj!

Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Key is hilarious

[PapayaSF]

One of the examples in his book is a Playboy centerfold of a beautiful blonde reclining on some silky sheets. The brilliant Mr. Key discovered that if you hold the page up to the light so that the printing on the back shows through, and look carefully at the folds of the sheets in a lower corner of the photo, you can kinda-sorta see the letters "s e x".

I read that and thought: How naive of the rest of us to think the sexiness was due to something as obvious as a large, clear photo of a beautiful naked woman, when the real secret was three fuzzy letters in the corner that can't even be seen under normal magazine reading conditions! In other words, the guy's a loon.

Re:Subliminal? What about overt?

[Joebert]

A kiosk with barcodes you say ?

How large are the barcodes ?
How often can invalid barcodes be tried before someone comes out to check on them ?

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[nacturation]

What an amazing post. Someone mod this guy up up down down left right left right!