Hypnosis Beam

During the Casino Nights story in STC Issues 18 and 19, visitors to the Casino Night Zone were being cheated out of their money by playing rigged casino games. They would continue playing, unable to stop, until they had absolutely nothing left to bet. It was revealed that the zone's statue of Doctor Robotnik contained a computer system that controlled all the games and that the statue's eyes fired hypnotic rays upon the populous, compelling them to gamble themselves into poverty. The statue housing the hypnosis beam was destroyed, releasing the citizens from their trance.