MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Assemble the team, we got a red ball!

> 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.

Wound up, can't sleep, can't do anything right, little honey / Oh, since I set my eyes on you. / I tell you the truth.
I can't get it right / Get it right / Since I met you...