some BERZERK history that you may not have known..

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"Berzerk is a killer! Berzerk is the first video game in history which someone died from playing. In January 1981, Jeff Dailey(19 yrs old) died of a heart attack soon after scoring 16,660 points.In October 1982, Peter Burkowski (18 yrs old) made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes, and then a few seconds later dropped dead. True story…freaky."

http://www.lycos.com/info/berzerk.html
 
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"Berzerk is a killer! Berzerk is the first video game in history which someone died from playing. In January 1981, Jeff Dailey(19 yrs old) died of a heart attack soon after scoring 16,660 points.In October 1982, Peter Burkowski (18 yrs old) made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes, and then a few seconds later dropped dead. True story…freaky."

http://www.lycos.com/info/berzerk.html

Is this really confirmed true? I had read about it before. I don't know. I haven't died playing my Berzerk yet. Maybe I need to play it more to get the effect. :D
 
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"Berzerk is a killer! Berzerk is the first video game in history which someone died from playing. In January 1981, Jeff Dailey(19 yrs old) died of a heart attack soon after scoring 16,660 points.In October 1982, Peter Burkowski (18 yrs old) made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes, and then a few seconds later dropped dead. True story…freaky."

http://www.lycos.com/info/berzerk.html

You're just learning this now? How long you claim to have been in this hobby? What a N00b.
 
knew this right when I got into the arcade hobby. But thanks for sharing any ways.. refreshing my memory.
 
Even if it's true, dropping dead after playing a game doesn't mean you died from playing the game. Peter Burkowski seems to me to have a better claim, because supposedly the coroner cited the game as causing the stress that led to the heart attack. (Though I'm pretty dubious about both stories.)
 
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