Friday, August 12, 2005

Eggshell Gamer

MSNBC reports "SEOUL, South Korea - 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 on Tuesday.

Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play online 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.

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."

As someone who has played both Space Invaders and Asteroids on the Atari 2600 until my score was so high that it "flipped" back to zero, I can tell you that this guy just had a weak heart. You can not blame computer games for this death. This guy is what we lawyers call an eggshell computer gamer.

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