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"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 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 Aug. 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."

8/10/2005 12:13:24 AM

oh yeah

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=9321063&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

8/10/2005 12:14:54 AM

Jeez, and I just stopped because my grades were stinking. I definitely don't have what it takes to game myself TO DEATH!

8/10/2005 12:24:36 AM

that guy was a fucking n00b

8/10/2005 12:30:49 AM

omg pwnt

8/10/2005 1:09:51 AM

Must have been playing a RPG, that shit would kill me.

8/10/2005 1:22:08 AM

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" had been playing on-line battle simulation games"

8/10/2005 1:56:17 AM

8/10/2005 2:02:06 AM

This is the 2nd time i've heard about someone from korea dying after too much internet usage.

8/10/2005 2:14:02 AM

this is awesome.

8/10/2005 2:35:25 AM

LONGEST GAME OF STARCRAFT EVER

8/10/2005 3:51:54 AM

those silly asians

8/10/2005 9:03:43 AM

^^^^ I'm pretty sure it wasnt because of internet usage. Internet gaming perhaps.

^ That doens't quite illustrate to me how they Asians are silly. Take a gander at these hip people

8/10/2005 9:11:20 AM

THAT WAS A CRAZY GAME OF WARCRAFT
I LOST IT ALL
i lost it all

8/10/2005 9:27:02 AM

He probably thought it was like Ender's Game, that he was fighting a real war virtually, and if he stopped playing the Earth would be annihilated.

8/10/2005 9:29:52 AM

Hey, he quit his job so he could "enlist" in the war

8/10/2005 9:34:24 AM

Fucking everquest

8/10/2005 10:44:27 AM

too much coffee

8/10/2005 11:04:22 AM

WoW, not EQ, get with the times

8/10/2005 11:32:21 AM

i apologize for posting this again...i just saw this thread.....poor guy

8/10/2005 1:06:22 PM

He was playing Starcraft. I mean, WTF, that game is like 10 years old!

8/10/2005 1:08:34 PM

yeah i remember that game back in the wee days...i think it came out after warcraft though...i was addicted to warcraft, parents caught me playing it while i was supposed to be studying...damn that was a long time ago

8/10/2005 1:14:43 PM

He was probably playing some 2v6 Comp Stomp Fast Money No Rush No BS

8/10/2005 1:57:53 PM

starcraft is the best strategy game of all time


id be so flattered if i was someone who worked on that game.

8/10/2005 3:48:49 PM

^prolly the best game of all time. still addictive years later. no other game has the pure replay power that sc does.

8/10/2005 4:02:21 PM

ahah Specter

8/10/2005 7:25:06 PM