Playa Rater: The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers Of All Time

Writing by Chris on Friday, 23 of June , 2006 at 9:00 am

MTV has a few interesting profiles of the "Most Influential" gamers.  Several of them where disturbing, but as you might expect, the Korean was the scariest.

The Never-Winded Athlete: Im Yo Hwan. In America, pro gamer Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel appears on "60 Minutes," endorses his own line of computer equipment and serves as living proof that, yes, you can make money for being really good at video games. But it’s in South Korea — where at least a third of the country plays online games, where multiple TV stations broadcast pro-gaming tournaments and where tens of thousands of thunderstick-waving fans pack outdoor, rock-concert-style pro-gaming showdowns — that players enter by speedboat. The nation’s favorite game is the sci-fi strategy title "StarCraft," and the most famous gamer who ever played it is Im Yo Hwan, a.k.a. "Slayers Boxer," who mastered the game’s least-respected warrior class to become, for a time, the Michael Jordan of "StarCraft." With bodyguards and screaming female fans, a 2003 autobiography and at least a quarter-million dollars in annual profits (one longtime game announcer pegged his annual take at over $1 million), Im Yo Hwan isn’t an underground curiosity. He’s a national sports icon.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1534641/20060620/

Category: Gaming

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