Man Collapses, Dies After Playing Wii Fit
April 1, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Gaming
While no one is blaming Nintendo’s popular game Wii Fit, it is being reported that a healthy British man has 
died right after playing it. The 25-year-old fisherman, musician, and scout leader had just finished playing the jogging minigame.
The man, Tim Eves, even had one last conversation with his mother – “We spoke to him on the phone when he was playing on the Wii machine. He told us he had just ordered himself a kebab and was sitting there with a glass of port. But a little while after he had put the phone down, he collapsed for no reason. It was completely out of the blue,” Eves’ mother told the Daily Telegraph.
No official cause of death has been announced but some believe he may have passed away from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (I’ve never heard of that). Apparently, SADS can cause cardiac arrest in otherwise healthy people. How scary!
I highly doubt that Wii Fit could be to blame for a death. It’s not any more rigorous than regular exercise so this could have easily happened after someone ran up a flight of stars or used a treadmill at a gym. Do you think Wii Fit is potentially dangerous?
