Man dies after marathon video game session

[DirtyKash]

Man dies after marathon video game session

Last Updated Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:47:24 EDT
CBC News

A South Korean man who recently quit his job to play more video games died after playing almost non-stop for 50 hours at an internet café.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official told Reuters.

The 28-year-old man began playing on-line battle simulation games at the café in the southeastern city of Taegu on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the washroom or take brief naps on a makeshift bed, police said.

When he didn't come home, the man's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the café, he said he would finish the game and then go home, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported.

He died a few minutes later, the paper reported.

Former work colleagues and staff at the internet café said he had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games.

[realmofotalk]

Must have had so much fun playing this game:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/b...rr/review.html

[HuskerFan2002]

Wow, that's about as bad as watching this guy on "Intervention" several months ago who was addicted to video games and somehow, he managed to get help.

[General]

I thought it said marathon masturbation session. Still sad though. Most I've ever done was 16 hours, but we had booze and stayed overnight.

[BaseballFanatic]

Must have had so much fun playing this game:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/b...rr/review.html

That game drove me Game Drunk. I gone crazy, and couldn't get enough of it

[Kingdom]

I once played the first Spyro the Dragon game on psx for four hours before realizing I don't like video games.

[Hmark6]

Final Fantasy 7 used to take about 8 hours out of my day at a time. I so ashamed!

[Kingdom]

I used to read the strategy book to FF7 as though it were my life and a half.

[rockin500]

Final Fantasy 7 used to take about 8 hours out of my day at a time. I so ashamed!

same here. most excellent.