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I did not know these facts until today. I get all my best intel from the Venture Bros.
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Berzerk is the first video game known to have coincided with the death of players. In January 1981, Jeff Dailey made the Berzerk top-ten list after posting a high score of 16,660 points and suddenly died of a heart attack at age 19 a few seconds after the game was over.[citation needed] One year later in October 1982, Peter Burkowski entered Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City, Illinois and made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes. Astonishingly, he collapsed just a few seconds after the game was over, before dying of a heart attack at age 18. His high scores are unknown.
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Re: Assemble the team, we got a red ball!
[Re: GatKong]
#356892 - 07/25/16 05:31 PM
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> I did not know these facts until today. I get all my best intel from the Venture
> Bros.
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> Berzerk is the first video game known to have coincided with the death of players.
> In January 1981, Jeff Dailey made the Berzerk top-ten list after posting a high score
> of 16,660 points and suddenly died of a heart attack at age 19 a few seconds after
> the game was over.[citation needed] One year later in October 1982, Peter Burkowski
> entered Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City, Illinois and made the Berzerk top-ten
> list twice in fifteen minutes. Astonishingly, he collapsed just a few seconds after
> the game was over, before dying of a heart attack at age 18. His high scores are
> unknown.
Judging that there are no statistics of heart attack for ages before 20 because they are meaningless (only 0.6% of population between 20-39 yo would have at least one in the study I've just read), and that the first example has a [citation needed] and the second no citation either, I'd call shenanigans and just another urban legend copypasted from site to site.
And, if the game is so deadly, there should be lots of mamers being still killed.
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Re: Assemble the team, we got a red ball!
[Re: Pi]
#356893 - 07/25/16 06:24 PM
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> > I did not know these facts until today. I get all my best intel from the Venture
> > Bros.
> >
> > Berzerk is the first video game known to have coincided with the death of players.
> > In January 1981, Jeff Dailey made the Berzerk top-ten list after posting a high
> score
> > of 16,660 points and suddenly died of a heart attack at age 19 a few seconds after
> > the game was over.[citation needed] One year later in October 1982, Peter Burkowski
> > entered Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City, Illinois and made the Berzerk
> top-ten
> > list twice in fifteen minutes. Astonishingly, he collapsed just a few seconds after
> > the game was over, before dying of a heart attack at age 18. His high scores are
> > unknown.
>
> Judging that there are no statistics of heart attack for ages before 20 because they
> are meaningless (only 0.6% of population between 20-39 yo would have at least one in
> the study I've just read), and that the first example has a [citation needed] and the
> second no citation either, I'd call shenanigans and just another urban legend
> copypasted from site to site.
>
> And, if the game is so deadly, there should be lots of mamers being still killed.
I've always been suspicious of the tripe-6's in the middle of the score as well. And, to be honest, "16,660" doesn't make the Top Ten on an oft-played Berzerk.
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Re: Assemble the team, we got a red ball!
[Re: GatKong]
#356894 - 07/25/16 06:57 PM
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> I did not know these facts until today. I get all my best intel from the Venture
> Bros.
>
> Berzerk is the first video game known to have coincided with the death of players.
> In January 1981, Jeff Dailey made the Berzerk top-ten list after posting a high score
> of 16,660 points and suddenly died of a heart attack at age 19 a few seconds after
> the game was over.[citation needed] One year later in October 1982, Peter Burkowski
> entered Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City, Illinois and made the Berzerk top-ten
> list twice in fifteen minutes. Astonishingly, he collapsed just a few seconds after
> the game was over, before dying of a heart attack at age 18. His high scores are
> unknown.
Check out Keith's investigation into these urban legends;
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/01/video-game-related-deaths.html
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Re: Assemble the team, we got a red ball!
[Re: Stiletto]
#356896 - 07/25/16 10:42 PM
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> > I did not know these facts until today. I get all my best intel from the Venture
> > Bros.
> >
> > Berzerk is the first video game known to have coincided with the death of players.
> > In January 1981, Jeff Dailey made the Berzerk top-ten list after posting a high
> score
> > of 16,660 points and suddenly died of a heart attack at age 19 a few seconds after
> > the game was over.[citation needed] One year later in October 1982, Peter Burkowski
> > entered Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City, Illinois and made the Berzerk
> top-ten
> > list twice in fifteen minutes. Astonishingly, he collapsed just a few seconds after
> > the game was over, before dying of a heart attack at age 18. His high scores are
> > unknown.
>
> Check out Keith's investigation into these urban legends;
> http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/01/video-game-related-deaths.html
>
> - Stiletto
He could at least try to find an image of this supposed original Fire One cabinet design with a rounded base. Its existence would make his "in the know" source a bit more credible.
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Re: Assemble the team, we got a red ball!
[Re: Pi]
#356898 - 07/25/16 11:10 PM
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> And, if the game is so deadly, there should be lots of mamers being still killed.
No... that particular machine. There's an urban legend (that is mostly verifiable) about a tree on NAF Atsugi base that is called "the ghost tree". It's supposedly haunted or something because the last 2 people that tried to cut it down died. Nobody will touch it now.
Not everybody who tries to cut a tree down dies.
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> He could at least try to find an image of this supposed original Fire One cabinet
> design with a rounded base. Its existence would make his "in the know" source a bit
> more credible.
how's this? I think what they mean is the rounded edges that are front-facing.
- Stiletto
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Re: Assemble the team, we got a red ball!
[Re: Stiletto]
#356940 - 07/27/16 01:39 AM
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> > He could at least try to find an image of this supposed original Fire One cabinet
> > design with a rounded base. Its existence would make his "in the know" source a bit
> > more credible.
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> how's this? I think what they mean is the rounded edges that are front-facing.
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> - Stiletto
Good cabinet. Keep the players looking at their own screen. I wish I tried this out with my grandma.
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