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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 on 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 August 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.

Source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050809/80/fp7pg.html


Patchou stop playing WoW!

Oh ... wow. Thats taraible. Huh.. interesting.

wow that is actually amasing, i bet he got killed in the game shortly after his actual death

(sorry but its prolly true )

on-line battle simulation games hmm more than one then... i wonder what he was playing?

Halo? Cossacks? AoE? WoW? They probably won't say either

wow! he played for two days and 2 hours straight..

Whenever I play a game, I only play it for like 4 hours max, I don't know, then have a break or something. It's not that I get bored, I just feel that it's lame sitting playing one game all day lol, there is better things to do.

Surely, the cyber café closed overnight, they couldn't of kept the café open for so long without closing it, I think it's balls that he did it for so long in a cyber café, if he did it at home then it would make more sense.

how is that even possible? heart failure from exaustion? how about those soldiers that sit in trenches for longer than that and dont get naps how come they dont die?

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how is that even possible? heart failure from exaustion? how about those soldiers that sit in trenches for longer than that and dont get naps how come they dont die?

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they do die dumbass...except nobody lives to tell us how they die so we all asume they die by being shot or blown up or something

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Originally posted by *Saint*
how is that even possible? heart failure from exaustion? how about those soldiers that sit in trenches for longer than that and dont get naps how come they dont die?

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I agree with that, I doubt this is the entire story, there must of been some other causes, your heart doesn't fail of exhaustion unless you're like running around. On the contrary, those soldiers do have a lot of training.

it was probualy exaustion due to lack of food