"Game Stopped", Way to Die #126, (also alternatively titled as "Game Over") is the fifth death featured in the episode "Stupid Is As Death Does", which aired on March 29, 2011.
Plot[]
There's a reason why video games make more money than movies: they're as addictive as crack. Garth was a sociopathic, egotistical, and mean-spirited video game addict whose only reality was virtual. He spent most of his time playing video games and so little time doing anything else, even going to the bathroom and sleeping. During hours of gameplay, he eats streams of junk food, such as large amounts of pizza and chugs down plenty of soft drinks and not much water in order to keep up.
Body sores and pus pockets began to appear after 52 hours, due to his improper diet and neglected hygiene. He had just beaten many new players of the game, except for Tina. If Garth could beat Tina, he would be highest ranked player in the world. Somehow Tina remained cool as a cucumber while Garth looked like a big zit that was about to burst. Finally, at the last second, Tina defeated him, celebrating her victory. Frustrated and furious over his loss, Garth stood up, ready to break the TV...
"After 60 straight hours of nonstop gaming, Garth stood up, and dropped, like someone had just pulled the plug on his avatar. Garth was a goner."
"STUPID GIRL!!!" -Garth's last words before the avatar pulls his plug.
Unbeknownst to Garth, blood clots had formed in his leg veins from being sedentary for so long that they had moved into his heart and lungs when he got up. In just a single minute, enough of the clots reached his heart and lungs, stopping them both in their tracks, and causing Garth to die.
Transcript[]
(Comedy Death Intro is playing)
Narrator:
Narrator: Garth didn't wanna miss one second of the action.
Pizza Deliver: Pizza delivery.
Garth: Yeah, yeah. Put on my tab.
Narrator: He had a steady stream of junk food delivered.
(Garth drinks, later, Intrigue Stories is playing)
Narrator: And for his bathroom needs, an empty bottle took care of number 1, and a specially-designed bucket seat took care of what came out the other hand.
(Brass March To Death is playing)
Narrator: After 52 hours, Garth's bad diet and worse hygiene produced body sores, but he didn't care.
(Tina dances of victory)
Narrator: After 60 straight hours of nonstop gaming, Garth stood up,
Garth: You stupid girl!!
(Once Garth stands up, he feels a heart attack)
Narrator: and dropped, like someone had just pulled the plug on his avatar.
(Garth falls to death, after the fall, the TV also falls on him)
Narrator: Garth was a goner.
Dr. Boyd Flinders: Our video game player sat for such a long time and developed such massive clots in his veins and in his legs that when he stood up, they broke free and floated up to his heart, into his lungs. And in a matter of a few seconds, there was enough blood that was coagulated into his lungs that he couldn’t breathe. His heart probably stopped within a few minutes after that and caused him to die.
(Villain Death is playing)
Narrator: Garth ruined his health and sacrificed his life by living in a virtual fantasy world.
Garth: You stupid girl!!
(Tina dances of victory)
Narrator: Too bad his wake-up call...
(Garth feels a heart attack, falls to death, after the fall, the TV also falls on him)
Narrator: was his own death. Game over... Garth.
Interviewees[]
- Pat "PatTheNESPunk" Contri - Video Game Historian
- Dr. Boyd Flinders - Surgeon
- Jonathan Brett - Garth (lead: intended victim)
- Marisha Ray Huber - Tina the Video Gamer (lead)
Alternative Description[]
As seen on Spike TV's website
"A slovenly video gamer participates in a marathon championship gaming tournament but the lack of sleep and nourishment causes fatal heart failure."
Trivia[]
- Also called "Game Over" on the Spike TV website.
- This death is based on five actual deaths resulting from gaming addiction.
- Lee Seung Seop - A 38-year old South Korean industrial boiler repairman who died after he played Star Craft for 60 hours non-stop (the same amount of time that Garth played).
- Chwang - An 18-year-old Taiwanese gamer who played Diablo III 40 hours and died when a blood clot traveled from his legs into his lungs similar to Garth's death.
- Chris Staniforth - An English gamer who would play Xbox for periods up to 12 hours and died when a blood clot traveled from his legs into his lungs.
- Two men died after playing Berzerk.
- Rather than using CGI graphics for the explanation of this death, this death uses 8-bit sprite graphics in the style of the classic 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong (which would later start a video game series by the Japanese video game conglomerate Nintendo).
- YouTuber PatTheNESpunk appeared in this death as a video game historian.
- He also was an interviewee in Gory Holed.
- The woman who portrayed Tina is Marisha Ray, a main cast member of Critical Role and a star in the voice acting scene. She is also the wife of Matthew Mercer, a voice actor best known for voicing Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and McCree from Overwatch.
- This death is similar to Blogged Artery, but the victim in that death did not die from 60 hours of gaming.
- The video game Garth and the other gamers were playing would later be used in Hacked Off as the video game Johnny was playing.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Game Over (Spike TV)
Foreign names[]
- Fin del Juego (Game Over) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Fin de la Partida (End of the Match) - Spanish dub
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