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110 PURE LIFE, Vol.11.No.4, December. 2017 (Rabīʿ Al-Thānī 1439. Azar 1396)
Dr Philip A Chan and Professor Terry Rabinowitz,
writing in the Annals of General Psychiatry, concluded
that: “Adolescents who play more than one hour of
console or Internet video games may have more or more
intense symptoms of ADHD or inattention than those
who do not.” This negative effect may lead to problems
in school.
Apparently video games take not only people’s
attention but also every now and again their lives as well.
Peter Burkowski, a top student, entered in April 1982
in a popular Game room from Calumet City, Illinois, at
8:30 p.m.. Within fifteen minutes of playing Berzerk he
made a highscore. Then he took four steps towards an
adiacent machine, dropped a quarter into its slot and
collapsed dead from a heart attack.
Chen Rong-Yu, a twenty-three-year-old, took a seat in
the farthest corner of an internet cafe on the outskirts of
New Taipei City, Taiwan on 13 July 2012.
He played almost continuously for twenty-three hours,
stopping occasionally only to rest his head on the table
and sleep for a little while. Each time that he woke he
picked up his game where he’d left off. Then one time he
didn’t raise his head. In order to tell him that his time was
up, a memebr of cafe’s staff found him dead. In February
2011 a thirty-year-old Chinese man died at an internet
cafe on the outskirts of the Beijing after playing an online
game for three days straight.
In July 2011 a young British player, Chris Stanifoth
died from a blood clot after a prolonged session at his Xbox
video game console. In January 2015 a thirty-eight-year-
old man was found dead at an internet cafe in Taipei,
apparentlu after playing video games for five days straight.