Korean Dies After Two Days of Computer Games

[THL]

Korean Dies After Two Days of Computer Games

Wednesday, August 10, 2005



SEOUL, South Korea — A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games non-stop for 49 hours, South Korean police said Wednesday.

Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu who was identified only by his last name, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally and not sleeping, refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game Starcraft.

Lee was quickly moved to a hospital but died after a few hours, due to what doctors are presuming was a heart attack, police said.

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

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165296,00.html

I don't even have any sarcastic remark about this. I am actually rendered speechless, and TopHat will back me up when I say that does not happen very often.

[Lunatock]

Whatever the leftists can use against videogames. Now they'll probably be pushing for heart attack warnings to be added to videogame cases.

[platinum786]

lol, i couldn't agree more with lunatock, soon have demands for trails to see efects of gaming on kids for long periods of time, if a fit and healty man can die after 49 hours, 24 might kill a kid,,,lol

[hammer]

This reminds me of the time when I used to play Command & Conquer,Red Alert in my school and college days. I remember playing the game one whole day at a stretch.Very addictive.

[leib10]

This reminds me of the time when I used to play Command & Conquer,Red Alert in my school and college days. I remember playing the game one whole day at a stretch.Very addictive.

That game was AWESOME! However, it only runs on Windows 95 and 98.

[Major Dad]

I don't even have any sarcastic remark about this. I am actually rendered speechless, and TopHat will back me up when I say that does not happen very often.

Evolution in action.

[TopHatter]

I don't even have any sarcastic remark about this. I am actually rendered speechless, and TopHat will back me up when I say that does not happen very often.

Yes, I will vouch for her on that

[Fury]

That game was AWESOME! However, it only runs on Windows 95 and 98.

That's odd, I got it working on my pc and I have windows XP professional. RA needs some patches and fixes as do alot of older games in XP, but not to worry Google helps

[THL]

This reminds me of the time when I used to play Command & Conquer,Red Alert in my school and college days. I remember playing the game one whole day at a stretch.Very addictive.

Well going back to school days, I guess I did spend countless hours playing Mario Bros.... Now, strictly girly games - Amber, and the 'Tycoon' series: Office Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon. I had started Max Payne a few years back, but I just never got any good at it.

[Samudra]

Well , i have played Medal of Honour for a day.
And i just couldnt stop sleeping for the next 12 hours.

[Jonny555Biotch]

Yeah...I was really addicted to Medal of Honor too. That game was so awesome.

[TopHatter]

Yeah...I was really addicted to Medal of Honor too. That game was so awesome.

For me it was

Civilization
Civilization 2
Age of Empires 2
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
and now currently Rise of Nations

[Samudra]

the less said about age of empires the better !

and then exterminating populations after capturing cities in Rome : Total War is sooo good , aint it ?

[TopHatter]

the less said about age of empires the better !

Why do you say that?

[hammer]

Well going back to school days, I guess I did spend countless hours playing Mario Bros....

Oh yes, I was a Mario fan too. .