Final Fantasy VII?

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According to this article, one or both of the killers had a copy of Final Fantasy VII. Does anyone have access to the lawsuit documents or 11k to back this claim up?

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B. Claim Two for Negligence and Strict Liability

Plaintiffs sue Defendants Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II), Activision, Inc. (Wolfenstein, Mech Warrior, Mech Warrior 2, and Nightmare Creatures), Apogee Software, Inc. (Wolfenstein and Doom), Atari Corporation (Doom), Capcom Entertainment, Inc. (Resident Evil), EIDOS Interactive (Final Fantasy), ID Software, Inc. (Quake and Doom), Infogrames, Inc. f/k/a GT Interactive Software Corp. (Doom), Interplay Entertainment Corp., (Redneck Rampage), Midway Home Entertainment (Quake and Doom), Nintendo of America (Nightmare Creatures), Sega of America, Inc. (Quake), Sony Computer Entertainment America (Final Fantasy), Square Soft, Inc. d/b/a Square USA, Inc. (Final Fantasy) and Virgin Entertainment Group, Inc. (Resident Evil) for manufacturing and/or supplying the designated violent video games allegedly frequently played by Harris and Klebold. See Am C/O ¶¶ 20-21.

Sham lawsuit, of course. Is there anything in the 11k that backs up ownership of these games?

This is the only reference to Final Fantasy 7 that I could find in the 11K. Maybe there are other references somewhere else.

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Investigator Jim Burkhalter of Jeffco DA, interviewed a teacher by the name of Jana Staloch on April 30,1999. Mrs. Staloch teaches English as a Second Language class at Columbine HS. Mrs. Staloch told Burkhalter that she had four students in her class that she was teaching sentence structure to when one of the students wrote on the board, " we should blow up the school". Staloch did not give Burkhalter the name of the individual who wrote this but gave him the names of all the students in the class. (four students) When I spoke with her on May 10, 1999 she gave me the name of the student which was Kentaro Kojima.

Mrs. Staloch feels strongly that what Kojima wrote on the board had no connection to the incident at CHS and that it was totally coincidental. She describes Kojima as a good kid but sort of inappropriate at times. He dresses normally, likes computers and seems to fit in with the norm but does things that are just inappropriate.

On May 11, 1999, I spoke with Kentaro Kojima at his residence. Kojima said that he knew Harris and Klebold from mutual friends. The mutual friends are Robert Perry, Chris Morris, Eric Jackson and Nicole, last name unknown. He said that these people were not really friends but people that he might eat lunch with. In order for him to give me these names, he had to look them up in his year book.
When asked what the kids talked about when they were together, Kojima said that he didn't pay much attention to them as he would rather play his portable video game. (Final Fantasy Seven)

When asked why he wrote on the board about bombing the school, Kojima nervously asked "I did"? He then said that sometimes he has a violent and wild imagination. When questioned about this statement he said that sometimes he thinks of space aliens coming down and blowing up the earth. I asked him if he thought that what he put on the board was inappropriate. He thought that it probably was but "kids say that all the time".

Based on the information Mrs. Staloch provided and my interview with Kojima, further investigation would be unwarranted. The sentence written on the board was probably meant to be funny.


*The only other reference to 'fantasy' would be the "Fantasy Baseball League" that Dylan and others liked to play together.

sororityalpha wrote:

This is the only reference to Final Fantasy 7 that I could find in the 11K. Maybe there are other references somewhere else.

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When asked what the kids talked about when they were together, Kojima said that he didn't pay much attention to them as he would rather play his portable video game. (Final Fantasy Seven)

I wonder if he actually brought Final Fantasy VII to school, or if there was a misunderstanding.

There was no way to bring FFVII to school at that time unless you smuggled your PlayStation in your backpack with you =P I love that game back then, I would know lol

Yumeko-chan wrote:

There was no way to bring FFVII to school at that time unless you smuggled your PlayStation in your backpack with you =P  I love that game back then, I would know lol

Maybe someone did that. I dunno.