Man dies after online game marathon Options

[angel-roh]

LOL... my goodness. he played games for 50 hours ... then died. ROFL. heart failure... very scary. and this was in korea lol. i better watch out rofl.

The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing online 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.

link to this news: http://cnn.org/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/09/ga...reut/index.html

[Chii]

Thats sad. Quitting a job to play video games.. RIIITE... he must have been getting a workout just from playing video games.. Ehh..

people can do that, if you're really good, companies will sponsor you and give you lots of money just to play.


i've heard about things like that before...like there was this one guy who just played a counter strike type game (or the game itself i don't know) and that's all he did. all he would eat were cup noodles and he rarely slept. i'm not sure if he died but he kept doing that because he was a really high rank and he didn't want anyone to surpass him.

i think it's sad...when a video game controls your life...