S.Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games
 

S.Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games


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 on 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 August 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050809/...dd_korea_games

Holy shit. I've worked 40 to 50 hour stints quite a bit.

28 years and heart failed? Must have been sick already........

The brain can only handle so much. It's not a surprise he died.

Can anyone give me some good south korean ip ranges?

i wish members quit their jobs to spend more time jerking off.

poor guy, i guess he played so much on GTA san Andreas.

The family can actually blame the internet cafe for his death.. ;)

Remember when I used to play a few online games and those Koreans were on nonstop. :helpme

Why's that. Those cafe's are open 24 hours a day. You just pay min or hour, no limits.

What game was it? lineage 2?

They are real online game fanatics.

Did he win? :upsidedow

it said "on-line battle simulation games"

so I'm guessing something like Battlefield 2.

god damn :(

How could he die? I have heard of CEOs working all week without sleep

I could have swore I read the same type of story about 4 months ago. Those guys must sure love their video games.

edit: actually it was a couple years ago:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/...?oneclick=true

Damn that is just crazy..

Yeah i thought this was a repost for sure.

You got to be kidding me...

:warning If I die of heart failure plz blame the adult industry

This isnt the first time this sort of thing has happened. If you are bored run some searches for stories like that. Its bizzare but this appears to happen a couple times a year.

He was probably power-leveling someone's World of WarCraft character.

Koreans dying of gaming is nothing new, it happens every day. :disgust

More computer gaming deaths:

http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/2...672_games.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10...omputer_games/

:1orglaugh

28 years old and heart failure?

OMG!!! Thats sad

you make it sound like its impossible to happen

jesus christ
i've read things like this before...
perplexing

stressed from playing...lol...lucky the computer didnt blew up!

Yeah, but you were looking at pussy... :2 cents:

Probably on Drugs.

That's some funny shit. :thumbsup

Literally... :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

The way that happens from sitting in one stop too long , the blood pools in your legs and starts to clot . The clot travels to your brain or lungs and say goodbye. That why if your going on really long flight they say take a aspirin.

dude there was indeed someone that died from playing straight for days couple months ago. This has to be another case

Yep. It's called DVT. http://www.dvt.net/home.do?id=0

Im sure alot of these deaths were from unhealthy people to begin with. Throw in not eating properly and drinking enough fluids and it's a recipe for disaster.