スウェーデンでのお話し。

先日発売されたWorld of Warcraftの最新拡張版、Wrath of the Lich Kingをプレイし過ぎて意識を失い、痙攣状態に陥って病院に担ぎ込まれるという少年の話しがWarCryで紹介されています。こちら。

15歳のこの少年は、Wrath of Lich Kingを24時間以上ぶっ続けてプレイしたことにより今回のような残念な結果となってしまったようですが、この少年の父親が地元紙に語った内容によれば、「ほんの数時間くらいは寝たかもしれない。朝食も少量だけ、コンピューターの前で食べていた」ということで、ろくに飲み食いもせずに24時間PCに向かっていれば、子供じゃなくても弱ってしまいそうです。

幸い大事には至らず、この少年は（まだ時間はかかるものの）完全に復調するものと伝えられていますが、くれぐれも節度あるプレイを、といったところですね

特にお子さんをお持ちの方は、やはり注意しないといけないんでしょうねぇ。

A schoolboy collapsed and went into convulsions after playing a new version of the "World of Warcraft" online computer game for 24 hours straight.

The 15-year-old boy and his friends were exploring the "Wrath of the Lich King" expansion pack when he suffered what appeared to be an epileptic seizure, it was reported Monday.

"They played all day and all night. Maybe they got a few hours of sleep. They ate a little food and breakfast at their computers," the boy's father told the Kvällsposten newspaper in Sweden.

Doctors told the father that his son's bodily systems had been disrupted by a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food and the prolonged period of concentration playing the game.

The teenager and six friends were reported to have gathered at his home in Laholm, western Sweden, on Saturday to play the updated version of the game, which went on sale Thursday. He collapsed at around 2 p.m. Sunday.

The boy is expected to make a full recovery but his father said he plans on limiting the amount of time his son is allowed to play computer games.