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Re: Assemble the team, we got a red ball!
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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