A boy (15), who spent all night gaming at a net café, suddenly keeled over dead in the early morning.
The boy apparently went to the café with his friend (17) at 8pm, where they spent an hour gaming and then went out for supper, returning at 10.
However, at 2am he was found face down at the computer, apparently sleeping. After two hours of this, the manager of the shop became worried and took the unconscious boy to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The café operator was found to be unlicensed, claiming ignorance of the need for one in the newly established venue, though this does not seem to be connected the boy’s demise.
It is important for the parents however: they explain that “up till now our boy never played games into the night like this, and he was mostly healthy and free of illness”. They also explain that they plan to sue the café…
Via Searchina.
Nobody seems concerned to relate his cause of death, and worst of all we do not hear which game killed him. Wags have been suggesting he was PKed…
Wait what? He played for a total time of FIVE hours and died? Something tells me that the cause of death was not related to the gaming itself…
I’ve managed more than 24 hours without ill effects, though some might beg to differ…
my record: 18 hours…
YAY! I beat you all with 36 hours of constant gaming… then a rest, of an hour, and gaming for another 8 hours… went to sleep after that… xD
-Ryuuku
I wouldn’t pride myself on gaming for that long, I game in doses. It’s healthier that way.
Healthy teens don’t play video games and keel over for no apparent reason. A sudden seizure? Food poisoning? Maybe he’d been awake for two straight weeks? There’s got to be something more to this story.
this has happened in korea i think… that was when starcraft was so popular and they even play it 18 hours a day…damn!!!!
I managed to game for +30 hours at dreamhack.. I didn’t feel to bad.
Must have been a weak boy
I was up all weekend for over 72hrs playing hockey and drinking, I played hockey 4 times in 3 days with out sleep. I even drank and went to karaoke in between work and hockey. I was ko’d on monday though. Definitely gotta be something else involved
Yea, i hit the 72 hour mark of solid gaming. However, it was something like 85 hours being awake. I mainly did it to prove that it was possible.
I once played for 24hours in a cyber cafe but nothing’s wrong with me
My friend’s record is 4 days straight. No sleep, no showers, no work. XD
wat a noob
Maybe he isn’t really “dead” but rather “dead tired” hahha …..sorry.
yet another life taken away by WoW
lol not even close i once went o a gaming rampage for 4 and a half days only having 3-4 hrs rest per day and fatigue was the worst that came on me but death lol maybe it was something he ate
heart attack doesnt matter how old you are or what your doing you can even feel healthy but if he rarely had illnesses then there was no need for them to take him to the doctor there for he could of had severe cardiovascular difficulty and died it happens to some WOW players as well
hmm… I smell a conspiracy to make gaming look bad. My record: 60 hours straight gaming (with food and restroom breaks only) and 73 hours awake, with some help from STARBUCKS. But, dying from 5 hours straight? Maybe he already had a “possibly life threatening condition” but the parents won’t reveal and would rather blame the net cafe and make ‘em fork up large sums of cash? In b4 “cough” gaming-kills-conspiracy “cough
Probably went into the game physically ala .Hack style, and then got PKed in-game (by Haseo?). Who knows… O_o
Well, right now im in my pc for more than 10 hs and im feeling just fi… ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! MY HEARTH!!!! MUST GO HOSP……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
He got killed in PvP.
Did he drop any good loot?
LOL. not true.
maybe he’s having an ill after all, but triggered coincidentally while he was playing.
How can a “healthy” boy die after a nights worth of playing.
A man lasted [b]50 hours[/b] of WoW before dropping dead.
http://internetcafenews.blogspot.com/2005/09/in-game-obsessed-south-korea-some.html
For real!?
oh my! i better stop playing games for ever!!!!
Its just another story to tell kids to stop playing video games for so long….
This is just really Stupid