Kim Kyung-jae ( – 2002) was the first human being to die from playing

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too much. He died of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) after playing the

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video game '' Mu'' for 86 hours in

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, with pauses only to purchase cigarettes and to use the bathroom. No medical report is available in English. Prolonged immobility as well as vein condition are diatheses that increase the odds of contracting deep vein thrombosis.

Life

Kim Kyung-jae was born in 1978 in

, South Korea. He died in 2002 in

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, South Korea.

References

External links

* https://www.theguardian.com/computergames/story/0,,1275067,00.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20070930205009/http://www.mg.co.za/articledirect.aspx?area=mg_flat&articleid=134364 * http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdcgw/is_200309/ai_n9519207 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Kyung-Jae 1970s births 2002 deaths Video game culture Year of birth missing Deaths from thrombosis