.. you don't look so good. should we send wanda over to keep an eye on ya ?
Posted on 08/10/2005 2:25:00 AM PDT by kingattax
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday.
The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.
Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.
"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone.
Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.
After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported.
He died a few minutes later, it said.
South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry
He could have gotten a white collar job here and had an unbeatable connection, played at work, and gotten pay and benefits for it.
Leni
lol
This has been posted a million times already....
I used to play 70 hours of EQ a week with my record being 17 hours on saturday and 19 hours on sunday (church met fri night)
Played at worship and worshiped play?
Has anyone ever died from 50 hours of Freeping? Maybe I should lie down for a while, don't do anything until I get back!
lol
How am I supposed to get any rest if you keep answering me?! Good Grief!
.. you don't look so good. should we send wanda over to keep an eye on ya ?
Well, that narrows it down. I mean, how many Lee's could thee be in Korea?
What a wimp!
Maybe Darwin was right.
There is little doubt that he caught a virus while online.
Ping
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Heh-heh, yeah, pretty much.
I'm better now. Haven't played in years. I do FReep about 8 hours a day now though lol.
Such is the life of an extremist =)
What game was he playing?
Pokemon? Back when I was that age...I just turned eighteen, and Pokemon had just come out. Yep, unfortunately, this man doesn't have that excuse. I played RA2 through, twice in one day, both the Soviet and Allied Campaign. Leiutanent Zofia, so sinister, so evil, so sexy in your leather uniform...oh, sorry. Poor family. At least he can actually claim he died because he loved video games so much.
wait...wait...that didn't sound right. Let me restate that. When I was younger...like 11. I'm eighteen now. Oh God, strange looks!
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