Man dies after 50 hours of computer games

[Krypton]

South Korean left seat in Internet cafe only to use toilet, take brief naps


heres the story...

here (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/8888579/)

[Swan]

That is a bit too far. But it wasn't directly the games fault, if you stayed up that long it may happen to you as well. You just need to motivation.

[Bube]

Something like this had happened before, in South Korea again. Only that time, instead of "a battle simulation", he was playing Counter-Strike.

Newspapers over here went ballistic that our youth was playing the game in cafes all around the country, and even started to say the game should be banned.

And leaving to go to the toilet and take brief naps? Sounds just like a med student during finals... :D

[Teuthida]

Kinda sad this thing seems to happen so often.

Wish I could find a game I could become so enthralled in that I would risk death. See, the Revolution is health conscious. You'd stop playing due to muscle fatigue before your heart has time to give out. Would like to see someone wave their arm about for 50 hours.

[Crash]

must have been a fun game!

[Krypton]

I heard someone else who had died, played 48 Hours straight of Halo 2, ended up dying.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

see, thats what you call stupid



i really don't think that these people should deserve pity, since what they're doing is simply giving ammo to people like jack thompson who are convinced that videogames are the digital reincarnation of the devil. But just out of curiousity, I would like to know what battlesim he was playing? my guess: C&C: Generals: Zero Hour

[GameMaster]

That's what he gets for trying to be better than the other gamers. Selfish, greedy boy pays the ultimate price.

Remember that ytmnd.com link someone posted here of the WoW kid that was screaming and swearing toward someone else for a stolen item?

This South Korean kid was probably a real nut job like that.

[Teuthida]

Chipmunk version :D

http://chipmunkscloudsong.ytmnd.com/

A lot easier to listen to.

http://medievalcloudsong.ytmnd.com/

So so many parodies.

[Krypton]

I don't even see how people can play a game that long, I cant even play a videogame for too long {1-2 hours} my eyes start to hurt.

[Teuthida]

I probably played Animal Crossing for a solid period of time longer than any other game. But that's nice and peaceful.

I played Meteos nonstop during a 6 hour plane ride but that was to keep my mind off my stomach ache. And then continued playing for another 5 hours after I got home. Did end up beating the game and unlocking every single thing there was to unlock.

[Krypton]

I don't even really play games that much anymore, but occasionally ill pop NFSU:2 or GTA: San Andreas into my ps2 and play for an hour or so.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

i tend to play rpg's for a substantial period of time at a time, but even those, after 6 hours max i'll take a rest and eat and go outside.

[Teuthida]

http://www.physorg.com/news8913.html

Yet another guy dies from too much play time. I seriously need to know what game can captivate someone for 10 straight days without sleep.

[DimHalo]

I can't imagine playing a game for 50 hours straight, but of course I haven't found a game I'm that enthralled in.

I think the longest I've played a game was about 8 hours. But my mom pulled a 12 hour shift one time.

[Professor S]

Why do these people always seem to be Korean? I know that South Korea is a hotbed of gaming, as anyone who has played Guild Wars and seen the constant messages stating that Korea just destoyed the Western world on online battle can attest to, but this is getting out of hand. It seems almost like people in S. Korea who have addictive personalities and would normally be alcoholics or drug abusers are killing themselves with videogames instead.

This is a problem.

[jeepnut]

The longest I've ever spent in one sitting was probably 5 or 6 hours and then I started getting real sleepy and got a headache. Also, my eyes were getting blurry...

[DimHalo]

The longest I've ever spent in one sitting was probably 5 or 6 hours and then I started getting real sleepy and got a headache. Also, my eyes were getting blurry...


What were you playing?

[Happydude]

longest me and Gimpy went was about 5 days or so :p...we got like 30 minutes sleep everyday lol...it was fun :p

we were playing FFIX

[Swan]

Yeah, me and my friend pulled an all nighter on FFIX

[jeepnut]

What were you playing?

I believe it was Final Fantasy VIII.

[Happydude]

I believe it was Final Fantasy VIII.
hee hee...damn FF series, eh?

[Krypton]

I just recently stayed up over the weekend playing Prince Of Persia: The Two Thrones, I was bushed today.