Online Gaming cause of death for Chinese Boy
An online games addict died after playing for seven days in a row.
The 26-year-old, who weighed 150kg (23st 7lb), collapsed after spending ‘almost all’ of a week-long holiday on his PC.
His neighbours blamed the boredom of the holiday to mark Chinese New Year for turning youngsters into gaming addicts.
Xu Yan, a teacher in the north-eastern town of Jinzhou, said: ‘There are only two options: TV or computer. What else can I do in the holiday as all markets and cafeterias are shut down?’
China has allegedly seen an alarming rise in the number of young Internet addicts despite attempts to restrict minors from cyber cafes and limit online gaming.
About one in ten of the country’s 20 million Internet users aged under 18 is addicted, officials have claimed.
In 2005, a 28-year-old South Korean man collapsed and died after playing computer game Starcraft non-stop for 49 hours in an Internet cafe.
Three years earlier, an American mother unsuccessfully sued Nintendo, alleging her son suffered a fatal seizure playing a video game.
By Sun Tzu on 03-03-2007
Comment by abby
January 9th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
nerds, all of them.do some crosswords or something
Comment by Conway
January 15th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
They need to clarify more on the definition of “addict” they used “one in ten users” statistic. Of course, someone who plays 49 hours is definitely an addict, but are they implying that one in ten users also play that amount of time?
Comment by henk
February 27th, 2009 at 9:36 am
If you are realy addict to your computer or game or something there is plenty of help you can get.And if you think *&$#@ you or something.You should look on the internet…. Beacause it really true.
good luck to all(addicts)who read this.
Comment by mr. v
June 18th, 2009 at 9:08 am
your also a addict faggot