Gaming is now believed by scientists to be one of the most addictive activities, and borderline mental illness.
In a case that could seem like a mental illness of a man considering his addiction to gaming, he ended up losing his walking ability. A man in China lost sensation from the waist down after playing video games for 20 hours straight at an internet café recently.
The paramedics had to carry the gaming fanatic to the hospital on a stretcher, he begged his friends to keep on playing his unfinished game for him, reported Chinese media. The man, allegedly started playing the game from the evening of January 27 until his friends called for an ambulance in the afternoon of January 28. It is not clear what game he was playing, and is reportedly under observation in the hospital.