Man dies after playing video game 49 hours.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:31 am

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/ne ... 363857.htm

Man dies after playing video game 49 hours

Gamer, 28, barely ate and didn’t sleep during session

The Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — A 28-year-old man died of an apparent heart attack this week after playing computer games nonstop for 49 hours in an Internet cafe, police said.

The man, identified only by his last name, Lee, collapsed after having eaten minimally and not sleeping. He had refused to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game “Starcraft,” police said.

Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu, was quickly moved to a hospital but died after a few hours of what doctors believed was a heart attack.

Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea, home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and television stations devoted to broadcasting matches.

Lee was fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said.

Hmmmmm......I guess he ran out of lives and didn't have any power-ups left.

Kzinistzerg · Post by **Kzinistzerg** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:29 am

OMFG! SOmebody died playing starcraft! I knew it was addictive but ti didn't know it was that much!

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:27 pm

Mr. Lee has earned himself a Darwin award...

Seriously, you have to be really stupid to die like that...

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:19 pm

I've always wondered how some of the people over there are really good players. Now I know. They spend to much time playing the video games.

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:08 pm

Some of the people over there are actually professional computer gamers. They play for hours on end, building up characters and collecting in-game assets such as land, items, or money, and then turn around and sell it for real-world money. I've met at least one person who does it as a second job. Darn it, I went to medical school instead...

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:13 pm

Wow that is just stupid it's not like they need the light from the moniter to leave if I get hungry ill get food.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:07 pm

OMFG. Dum Korean morons. Thanks to them now video games are consider deadly and a weapon.

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:29 pm

DUDE! AND I THOUGHT THAT I HAD A PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:34 pm

Let's not blame every person in two countries. Remember, the Koreans also gave us Tae Kwon Do; they're not ALL or even MOST looney. And, how many people do you know in your own countries who would do something similar? I could easily see someone here in America doing it.

Searif · Post by **Searif** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:39 pm

Aki wrote:Mr. Lee has earned himself a Darwin award...

Seriously, you have to be really stupid to die like that...

true, I am a gamer and yes I do not eat or drink while playing the game, but if I start to starve, im pretty sure I will shut the game off, important or not

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:59 pm

Scott Gardener wrote:Let's not blame every person in two countries. Remember, the Koreans also gave us Tae Kwon Do; they're not ALL or even MOST looney. And, how many people do you know in your own countries who would do something similar? I could easily see someone here in America doing it.

Koreans are pretty good gamers, from what i see in Guild Wars. I constantly see the annoucements who holds the Hall Of heros going back and forth between America and Korea, with Europe occaisonally pulling off a win.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:15 pm

Scott Gardener wrote:Let's not blame every person in two countries. Remember, the Koreans also gave us Tae Kwon Do; they're not ALL or even MOST looney. And, how many people do you know in your own countries who would do something similar? I could easily see someone here in America doing it.

Oh Im not blaming every person in two countries, I always say that, I also call some people down here dum Florida morons, or dum carolina morons

just for the hell of it. *Whispers to Scott* dum Texas morons.

j/k

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:52 pm

*Whispers to Scott* dum Texas morons.

Them thar's hanging words. OK, boys....

Uh, I thought you brought the rope!

No, you's sapposed ta bringit!

Dag nabbit!

Hold there, partner, and don't move. We'll be right back....

(comes back an hour later.)

Dang it to Tarnation! The varmit's done left! That's the last time we guard our hangin' man on the Honor's System!

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:28 am

Scott Gardener wrote:
*Whispers to Scott* dum Texas morons.
Them thar's hanging words. OK, boys....

Uh, I thought you brought the rope!

No, you's sapposed ta bringit!

Dag nabbit!

Hold there, partner, and don't move. We'll be right back....

(comes back an hour later.)

Dang it to Tarnation! The varmit's done left! That's the last time we guard our hangin' man on the Honor's System!

heh...the words of Yosemite Sam.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:56 am

I've played Counter-Strike for 24 allready.

I'M still alive! Yay!

But is you play it THAT long, you've gotta be sick in the head or something.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:58 pm

Ive got this official army game call special forces( got it for free) it has really good graphics, but I havent played it.

Searif · Post by **Searif** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:30 am

Shadow Wulf wrote:Ive got this official army game call special forces( got it for free) it has really good graphics, but I havent played it.

I only played the training, since they do not let you play untill you compleat the training PERFECTLY... which is annoying because the parachute jump is impossible as a hell

Rogue_A · Post by **Rogue_A** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:24 am

I once played Tony Hawk's Underground for 24 hours....of course, then, my ancient, first model in the US got those bloody "Read Disk Error" when trying to read anything involving DVD content, so there went that marathon down the drain. Luckily, thanks to a class action lawsuit, it didn't cost me anything to get it repaired aside from the shipping to Sony's repair center. So now it's all sparkly better for now.

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:54 pm

What really bothers me is that this guy played for two days straight on public access. What happened when they locked up for the night?

I'll admit I've lost track of time while playing video games before, but not so much that I get out of touch with my immune system.

Then again, since my computer's down, I've mostly been playing GTA: San Andreas, the game where your character can starve to death before you do.

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:59 pm

Now I know how I want to die! I always wanted to when I do die to die in a comical or questionable way, what weirder way to die than from playing Mega Man all day?

I hope atleast the poor guy died peacefully.

Rainwolf · Post by **Rainwolf** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:10 pm

It's odd thinking that games can be more addictive than drugs to some people.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:49 am

Rainwolf wrote:It's odd thinking that games can be more addictive than drugs to some people.

well, what do you know.

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