Man dies after 50 hour videogame binge

[jmarkos]

That StarCraft game must be pretty good.

August 9, 2005 4:53 PM PDT
Man dies after 50 hour videogame binge
Playing video games shouldn't be a way to qualify for the Darwin Awards, but thanks to a South Korean man, that seems to no longer be true.

 

[Genx87]

Friend in college played Ultima Online for 56 hours straight. The only time he left was because of mandatory morning workouts because we were on teh football team.

He failed out of school that semester lol

 

[cwjerome]

That game is like a religion there.

It was a great game... 5 years ago.

Looking at the # of posts some people have on P&N, I wouldn't be too surprised if one of them keeled over after a particularly long binge.

 

[MiniDoom]

I wonder which Anandtech member it was.:laugh:

 

[owensdj]

I've read that most of the cheaters at Starcraft are the Korean players.