Man dead after online gaming binge

Sep 17, 2007 08:48 AM

In Beijing, A man from Southern China appeared to have died of exhaustion after playing Internet games. At Saturday afternoon, the man, who is 30 year old, fainted at a cyber café in Guangzhou after playing games online for three days. After the man was found fainted, the paramedics came and tried to save his life. Unfortunately, the revival lead to failure and he was announced dead at the café. The online-game that the man was playing and the name of the man were not told in the media from Beijing news.
After the paramedics declared that the man died in the café, all of the Web surfers, feeling fear, left the café.

China has more than 140 million Internet users, second only to the United States of America. It is one of the world’s biggest markets for online games, with millions of players, many of them whom are hooked into playing online games and hunkered down for hours in front of computers in public Internet cafés. In China, many cities have clinics that treat “Internet addictions” with people and many of them are children and teenagers, playing online games or suffer of the Web for days.

In my opinion, dying from exhaustion of playing games is very ridiculous. I think that it is very stupid to play online games for 3 days in a row. Personally, if I play an online game for 3 hours, I feel really dizzy and feel like my head is going to blow up. I can’t imagine how some people play games for days. Also, I think that no one wants to die by playing games in “café”. Finally, I think that playing games for fun, to get rid of stress, etc… for few hours will be fine but too much, will just hurt you.

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