Nintendo hallucinations: a new phenomenological entity

Increasing exposure to video technology has provoked descriptions of psychopathology related to playing video games. However, there exists no description of hallucinatory phenomena occuring in psychotic illness deriving from such material. The subject of this report is one such patient suffering from a persistent auditory hallucination of computer music and other non-verbal information.

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