World Boy diagnosed with ‘PlayStation addiction’

[The Helper]

Stroke-like symptoms caused by gaming session

A 13-year-old boy in Italy has been diagnosed with ‘PlayStation addiction’, after he was rushed to hospital with stroke-like symptoms.

So news service Ananova is reporting, Lorenzo Amato was rushed to Lecce hospital in southern Italy by his father, after he lost the ability to speak and understand what was going on around him.

At first, doctors suspected that the teenager may have suffered a stroke or another severe brain disorder, but it now looks like the cause of the problem may well have been his console.

More about it here.

 

[duyen]

Heard it already from Philly D.

 

[demotry241]

another reason why xbox is better than playstation.


nes>xbox>playstation

 

[Lord_Phoenix]

matter of opinion. I think Playstation is coming out with the best games right now. Wii is just a gimmick system, and Xbox is a poor man's PC.

 

[MurderMode]

and Xbox is a poor man's PC.

.... and a PC is a non-billionaire's Bat Cave.

This isn't anything new, every console and game you buy these days has things like epilepsy and stroke warnings in the manuals.... for every hour of play time you should take a 15 minute break you dolt! EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT LOL

 

[Darthfett]

It probably wasn't a smart decision of the father to throw the thing away. Huge limits would be a much better idea, but trying to stop all at once is not gonna be good when he gets the symptoms from dependencies.

nes>xbox>playstation

As far as games go, for me the list goes like this:

GAME GEAR > PC > SNES > WII > N64 > GBA > SP > PS1 > Sega Gen > GC > NES > PS2 > DS > PS3 > GBP > GB > GBC > XBox > XBox 360 > Television > Virtual Boy > Dreamcast > Sega Saturn > Atari

There are very few games coming out for consoles that appeal to me, as many used to on some of the older systems.

Xbox only ever had one game that made me want the system, and that was Fusion Frenzy, which was not worth getting a whole system for.

The Game Gear was awesome:

• Sonic
• Rechargeable Battery
• Sonic
• Backlight
• Sonic

And a bat cave is a poor man's home.

 

[DDRtists]

I'm addicted to WoW.
Though I do play lots of LittleBigPlanet. >:3

 

[demotry241]

The Game Gear

We use it as an outdoor television which was frikin sweet!.

SEGA is awesome but forgotten. but awesome!


so... for every time we play a game session. there is an X% chance that we might loose it. Oh. well. since the graphics becomes more and more... realistic. that is probable. which would include stroke, trauma, coma, and some other special effects.

 

[Lord_Phoenix]

.... and a PC is a non-billionaire's Bat Cave.

This isn't anything new, every console and game you buy these days has things like epilepsy and stroke warnings in the manuals.... for every hour of play time you should take a 15 minute break you dolt! EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT LOL

Nvidia released a $10g personal supercomputer. 960 cores ftw!

 

[UndeadDragon]

Nvidia released a $10g personal supercomputer. 960 cores ftw!

Not quite as good as mine though

 

[Asehujiko]

Why the hell would nvidia be releasing pc's with a shit ton of cores? Where are the motherboards with 32 SLI slots?