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.