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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The first recorded death while playing a video game was with ''Berzerk'' - a man got a heart attack while playing it.
* There are many media accounts of gamers dying after playing for absurdly long periods without rest, especially in Asia. The deaths were mostly caused by the physical stress of such a long continuous session rather than any property of the games themselves. This goes back to 1981-82, when two teenagers died very shortly after posting high scores in the arcade game ''[[Berzerk]]''. Even more common are reports of health issues stemming from the same practices, which have prompted game companies and service providers to institute [[Anti
* There have been cases of online game players fighting or killing each other in real life over virtual property, though the players themselves were usually as much to blame as the service providers.
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