this is just proof that anything can be
taken too far welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 times someone died while
playing video games before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at instances
where a person passed away while
spending much of their time focused on
the world of games my by rule number ten
we fit betraying its primary intent
push-up exercise can be a wonderful and
healthy thing but this does not inspire
confidence in the practice the 2008
release of the Wii Fit excercise game
brought about a renewed interest in
combining the interests of gamers with
the demand for healthier gaming
practices it also attracted the
attention of focus Fitness individuals
like 25 year-old scout leader Tim eaves
sadly while jogging alongside the game
Eve spelled to the ground it was
declared dead long before he was
admitted to a hospital what’s strange is
that Yves was stated to be in good shape
and had been working as a laborer for
some time making his sudden death of a
more bizarre number nine holiday gaming
ends in fatality sometimes the holidays
are just a source of misery and turmoil
this may very well have been the
situation for a 26-year old man in
northeastern China who undertook a
continuous online gaming marathon during
the Chinese New Year in 2007 known only
as Zhang he played online games for a
full week before he experienced
twitching and fell unconscious with his
parents effort to keep him alive being
all for not Zang staff is thought to be
the result of his weight of 330 pounds
straining his body past the point of
survival exasperated by cultural
pressures and a lack of engagement
outside of gaming number eight attempted
transcendence through suicide this is a
tragedy no two ways about it
World of Warcraft has enchanted and
engrossed gamers since it launched in
2004 inspiring a level of devotion to
the experience that few other games can
boast alas this devotion can have a
darker side to it which came to light in
the case of Zhang’s yaoi
a thirteen-year-old boy who became
fixated on the MMO seeking to join his
fellow guild members in the game see how
he left a suicide note written from the
perspective of his player character
before leaping from a tall building
number 750 our finals
session issue nearly three days of play
all for a depressing end in 2005 boiler
repair Manley Swan soup found himself
gripped by a compulsion to play
Starcraft non-stop costing him a job and
a relationship with his girlfriend not
deterred Lee ventured into a smoke
filled underlit internet cafe where he
spent 50 hours on a Starcraft Finch
already malnourished and deprived of
sleep
Lee’s Marathon concluded with him
closing his eyes for the last time
before falling to the ground dead of
heart failure the saddest part is that
Lee had recently told his family that
he’d be leaving the cafe soon and would
be returning home at the very least we
hope that his passing was peaceful and
without pain number 6 ingress player
killed by a bus ingress is a giant game
of capture the flag where you play a
video game but in real life much can be
said of the 2016 mobile game Pokemon go
in directly leading to the deaths of
several players but developer knee
antics earlier release ingress was no
stranger to player demise either for
example in 2014 a 16 year old brazilian
boy named Gabrielle Leo was just
innocently engaged in a hunt for one of
several in-game portals unfortunately
the teen happened to walk straight into
the path of an oncoming bus resulting in
his death
this kind of all-too-common tragedy may
explain the antics desire to add
awareness warnings to their games given
how easy it is to get distracted by your
phone
[Music]
reliant Diablo 3 binge turns deadly in
July 2012 a young Taiwanese man known as
trunk set out to complete an extensive
marathon of Diablo 3 to that end
Chuang booked a private room in an
internet cafe in tiannan and proceeded
to play the action RPG for an incredible
40 hours without stopping to eat an
employee at the cafe eventually entered
Kong’s room and managed to wake him from
sleep only for him to briefly stand up
take a few steps and collapse to make
matters worse Tuan was said to have died
before he reached the hospital
potentially due to a blood clot number 4
sedentary lifestyle sudden end sitting
for long periods of time doesn’t do
gamers any favours case in point
UK gamer Chris stand forth regularly
played Halo games for more than 10 hours
per session with no bricks becoming
particularly focused on 2010’s Halo
Reach standard fourth set about playing
the game for 12 hours of time in the
midst of one session a blood clot
traveled up standard fourths legs to his
lungs killing him on the spot it is
believed that Chris had been afflicted
with a deep vein thrombosis dude who he
said in Carrie lifestyle leading to the
fatal blockage of a vital artery number
3 Daly and Bukowski
intruder alert intruder alert the year
was 1981 in the maze centric arcade game
berserk had been out premiere must 19
year old Jeff Daly said about achieving
a high score of sixteen thousand six
hundred and sixty points not long after
which he died of a heart attack
one year later peter burtowski said to
have been a friend of Jeff’s managed to
get two record-setting high scores on
berserk before he too collapsed due to
heart failure the deaths of these two
teenagers marked the first known
instance of a game being tied to the
demise of a player contributing to
heated arguments over the dangers posed
by video games humanoid number two three
day six ation over long gaming sessions
in internet cafes are appearing
increasingly unsafe it would seem at
least that’s an easy take away when
looking at a 2015 incident involving a
Taiwanese man known as che who played
video games for three days straight
an employee at the cafe found che lying
on a cable and promptly called an
ambulance though by that point nothing
too
to save the man’s life what’s worse is
that when Shea’s body was eventually
carried out by paramedics other players
in the cafe allegedly didn’t notice or
appear to be fazed by the morbid affair
number one six hundred and fifty hours
means death
credit where credit’s due this is one
hell of a bold undertaking in 2011 an
unnamed 33 year old Chinese man set up
camp in an unlicensed internet cafe
instead about playing for as long as
possible
specifically the man played online games
for an astounding 650 hours just over 27
days until he fainted and died of heart
failure caused by malnutrition setting
aside the length of the man’s final
session there’s something kind of
fascinating about how he subsisted
almost completely on instant ramen
noodles for that entire time coupled
with a lack of water little variation in
his diet and limited sleep it becomes
kind of clear how inevitable death was
in this situation take breaks folks it’s
for your own good
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
taken too far welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 times someone died while
playing video games before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at instances
where a person passed away while
spending much of their time focused on
the world of games my by rule number ten
we fit betraying its primary intent
push-up exercise can be a wonderful and
healthy thing but this does not inspire
confidence in the practice the 2008
release of the Wii Fit excercise game
brought about a renewed interest in
combining the interests of gamers with
the demand for healthier gaming
practices it also attracted the
attention of focus Fitness individuals
like 25 year-old scout leader Tim eaves
sadly while jogging alongside the game
Eve spelled to the ground it was
declared dead long before he was
admitted to a hospital what’s strange is
that Yves was stated to be in good shape
and had been working as a laborer for
some time making his sudden death of a
more bizarre number nine holiday gaming
ends in fatality sometimes the holidays
are just a source of misery and turmoil
this may very well have been the
situation for a 26-year old man in
northeastern China who undertook a
continuous online gaming marathon during
the Chinese New Year in 2007 known only
as Zhang he played online games for a
full week before he experienced
twitching and fell unconscious with his
parents effort to keep him alive being
all for not Zang staff is thought to be
the result of his weight of 330 pounds
straining his body past the point of
survival exasperated by cultural
pressures and a lack of engagement
outside of gaming number eight attempted
transcendence through suicide this is a
tragedy no two ways about it
World of Warcraft has enchanted and
engrossed gamers since it launched in
2004 inspiring a level of devotion to
the experience that few other games can
boast alas this devotion can have a
darker side to it which came to light in
the case of Zhang’s yaoi
a thirteen-year-old boy who became
fixated on the MMO seeking to join his
fellow guild members in the game see how
he left a suicide note written from the
perspective of his player character
before leaping from a tall building
number 750 our finals
session issue nearly three days of play
all for a depressing end in 2005 boiler
repair Manley Swan soup found himself
gripped by a compulsion to play
Starcraft non-stop costing him a job and
a relationship with his girlfriend not
deterred Lee ventured into a smoke
filled underlit internet cafe where he
spent 50 hours on a Starcraft Finch
already malnourished and deprived of
sleep
Lee’s Marathon concluded with him
closing his eyes for the last time
before falling to the ground dead of
heart failure the saddest part is that
Lee had recently told his family that
he’d be leaving the cafe soon and would
be returning home at the very least we
hope that his passing was peaceful and
without pain number 6 ingress player
killed by a bus ingress is a giant game
of capture the flag where you play a
video game but in real life much can be
said of the 2016 mobile game Pokemon go
in directly leading to the deaths of
several players but developer knee
antics earlier release ingress was no
stranger to player demise either for
example in 2014 a 16 year old brazilian
boy named Gabrielle Leo was just
innocently engaged in a hunt for one of
several in-game portals unfortunately
the teen happened to walk straight into
the path of an oncoming bus resulting in
his death
this kind of all-too-common tragedy may
explain the antics desire to add
awareness warnings to their games given
how easy it is to get distracted by your
phone
[Music]
reliant Diablo 3 binge turns deadly in
July 2012 a young Taiwanese man known as
trunk set out to complete an extensive
marathon of Diablo 3 to that end
Chuang booked a private room in an
internet cafe in tiannan and proceeded
to play the action RPG for an incredible
40 hours without stopping to eat an
employee at the cafe eventually entered
Kong’s room and managed to wake him from
sleep only for him to briefly stand up
take a few steps and collapse to make
matters worse Tuan was said to have died
before he reached the hospital
potentially due to a blood clot number 4
sedentary lifestyle sudden end sitting
for long periods of time doesn’t do
gamers any favours case in point
UK gamer Chris stand forth regularly
played Halo games for more than 10 hours
per session with no bricks becoming
particularly focused on 2010’s Halo
Reach standard fourth set about playing
the game for 12 hours of time in the
midst of one session a blood clot
traveled up standard fourths legs to his
lungs killing him on the spot it is
believed that Chris had been afflicted
with a deep vein thrombosis dude who he
said in Carrie lifestyle leading to the
fatal blockage of a vital artery number
3 Daly and Bukowski
intruder alert intruder alert the year
was 1981 in the maze centric arcade game
berserk had been out premiere must 19
year old Jeff Daly said about achieving
a high score of sixteen thousand six
hundred and sixty points not long after
which he died of a heart attack
one year later peter burtowski said to
have been a friend of Jeff’s managed to
get two record-setting high scores on
berserk before he too collapsed due to
heart failure the deaths of these two
teenagers marked the first known
instance of a game being tied to the
demise of a player contributing to
heated arguments over the dangers posed
by video games humanoid number two three
day six ation over long gaming sessions
in internet cafes are appearing
increasingly unsafe it would seem at
least that’s an easy take away when
looking at a 2015 incident involving a
Taiwanese man known as che who played
video games for three days straight
an employee at the cafe found che lying
on a cable and promptly called an
ambulance though by that point nothing
too
to save the man’s life what’s worse is
that when Shea’s body was eventually
carried out by paramedics other players
in the cafe allegedly didn’t notice or
appear to be fazed by the morbid affair
number one six hundred and fifty hours
means death
credit where credit’s due this is one
hell of a bold undertaking in 2011 an
unnamed 33 year old Chinese man set up
camp in an unlicensed internet cafe
instead about playing for as long as
possible
specifically the man played online games
for an astounding 650 hours just over 27
days until he fainted and died of heart
failure caused by malnutrition setting
aside the length of the man’s final
session there’s something kind of
fascinating about how he subsisted
almost completely on instant ramen
noodles for that entire time coupled
with a lack of water little variation in
his diet and limited sleep it becomes
kind of clear how inevitable death was
in this situation take breaks folks it’s
for your own good
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
Please follow and like us: