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.

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.