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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.

This is how I want to die:

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.


This is weird, I remember hearing of a SK man who died in an internet café bathroom after playing Everquest for 80 hours straight like 3-4 years ago.

Nah. I'd want my death to be quick, yet hilarious. Like having a zepplin land on my head.

Just goes to show; its all fun and games until your stomach strangles your brain to death in a vain quest for food; given by your liver; so you could buy a new sword from your pancreas...

Such is the way when natural body rhythm is usurped by gaming.

they should have limits on how long you can be in a net cafe.. sheesh...

I can't sit still for more then two hours.. I need to move around.. I'm very hyper.. I don't know how someone can stay seated for so long.

I wanna go peaceful. asleep like my grandfather.
Not screaming and shouting like the passengers in his car. :D

and before you ding me for being insensitive, that was from a bad joke newsletter.

That's nothing. One Korean lasted 86 hours playing StarCraft. That, my good (wo)man, is an idol to be worshipped.

Me, I'd wanna go out with a bang..specifically, turning myself into a 1 man army and attempting to take over some random country. All by myself. Yes, I know it won't work. Shh.

I wanna go peaceful. asleep like my grandfather.
Not screaming and shouting like the passengers in his car. :D

and before you ding me for being insensitive, that was from a bad joke newsletter.


LOL, actually that was pretty funny :D

i believe the joke goes with the grandfather being the pilot of an airplane...or maybe thats the way i heard it since i grew up in air force bases lol

I vote that this man's epitaph shall be either:

GAME OVER

or

INSERT COIN

I vote that this man's epitaph shall be either:

GAME OVER

or

INSERT COIN

With a little coinslot chisled into his tombstone, with INSERTU 25 CENTUS PREASU engraved beneath it.

longest I played a computer game was Final Fantasy 7 for about 17 straight hours. then it broke so that was the end of that.

A poisoned tic-tac.

Nah. I'd want my death to be quick, yet hilarious. Like having a zepplin land on my head.

Agreed :D Quick and hilarious sounds good....being run over by a clown....sat on by an elephant.....the more unpredictable the better!

This would be my second favorite way to die. I'll also have a shirt on that says "I'm truly 1337"

My first preferable way would be to die in a sword battle or in a hail of gun fire. Like a hero basically.

I've got how I want to die down in news article form.

KILLED BY COLON!

Yesterday, a teenage university student died in extraordinary circumstances in an unidentified Curry House in Rusholme, Manchester. The young scholar, Martin Little (that's my name, you take the piss I'll beat you to death with your colon), had been a first year student at Manchester University. Since moving into his Halls of Residence, Martin had taken to eating out often with his flatmates and friends. After some experimenting with food purveyors of various ethnic origins, the unfortunate teen had settled with eating a curry more than three times a week. At first. Gradually, he craved the burning spice sensation brought only by the strongest curries. Soon, he had taken to altering the curry with his own chilli powder, and began eating the curries more and more often. The amount of curry ingested was soon huge - every meal and snack was either a curry or had curry sauce in it.

The entrance of the food may have been a sight to behold - indeed, the young man received an honorary position on several cult websites - but the exit was something altogether other. The habit had led to Martin suffering extraordinary bouts of diahorrea and irritable bowels. Often, when not eating he was on the loo. During one particularly large and spicy meal, the young man began to look distinctly ill. "He was all red in the face and clenched his guts, just squirming like a hooked fish" reported one inconsolable friend. Martin was unaware of the full situation, however, and proceeded to become the first person to overdose on curry. As he forced down mouthful after mouthful of flaming hot chicken, his alimentary canal performed an extraordinary feat - first, his oesophagus twisted in a knot to prevent more food entering. "He convulsed strongly, gripping the table as he sweated, his wace was all contorted and he looked awful" whispered one of his cult followers, who happened to witness the event. But this was only the beginning. His small intestine unravelled, much as a garden hose rolls from its holder, to allow his large intestine to free up. What happened next was amazing.

"He gripped his ass and there was this tearing noise," said one of his flatmates. "Then, his pants tore open and this weird flesh-tone snake-thing flew upwards. It happened so fast, I don't think anyone knew what was going on." It was his colon - after almost a year of constant torture, the colon had finally lost the will to live and, in a bold and quite disgusting climax, strangled its host. "He tried to free his throat, but the ulcerated and scarred gut wasn't letting go...it had gripped to his nose by the sphincter," Said the coroner this morning, "Much like some snakes in the wild. He really had no chance." The combination of part strangulation, part drowning in undigested faeces quickly killed Martin. He was pronounced dead by a doctor in the restaurant. The family is holding the funeral this friday.

Gross, but bound to make the papers ;) :( :D

My record for gaming 32 hours playing Morrowind. However, I lost eight hours of that when I fell asleep in a Daedric shrine. Boy am I glad that my mom threatened to turn off the X-Box at the 24-hour mark, prompting me to save. Why didn't the guy eat while gaming? i do that all the time, something handy. If you have a major goal just have a friend feed you.

My record for simply staying awake is near 120 hours, stayed up five days in a row. Didn't do much strenuous activity, just a bit of gaming, and ate and drank quite a bit. My trick was ice water. Looking back at it, i'm surpised I didn't lapse into hypothermia or something. the crazy things I'll do for a bet. I got paid 20 bucks. :( I'm cheap entertainment.

The only real way for an old soldier to die is from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.