What video games?

We've all heard the media try to blame video games, and rock for school shootings, but does anyone actually know the library of games Eric, and Dylan had? The most common being doom, but it's most likely they played other games too, but can't find much information on this topic. Please leave source, if it has one.

Sue Klebold and Brooks Brown both talk about Dylan playing Mortal Kombat. I can't remember which book it is but one of the books talks about Dylan, Brooks Brown, and Brook's brother playing Mortal Kombat where they rip one of the player's spines out and they were all sitting around laughing about it. I think Brooks' mom and Sue were both bothered by this.

Here is what I remember:
-The Ultimate Doom
-Doom II:Hell on Earth
-Mortal Combat (don't know which one, could have ben the original)
-Ninja Gaiden- Dylan also played this with Brooks when they were kids, Brooks saying that Dylan was a master at it.
-Duke Nukem 3d- Eric mantioned it once in his journal, Brooks also talked about playing it with them.
If they played Duke and Doom, it's very possible they played Wolfenstein 3D as well.

Quake was another one that they played.

If you're wanting to play one i recommend Duke Nukem 3D. Its still a pretty dope game.

Here's a video game lawsuit from the Sanders' family:

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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.

Not sure which ones the killers actually played.

I raise my eyebrow at Final Fantasy. I've never heard that game brought up in reference to Columbine except for this lawsuit.

I believe Eric played a game called Postal where you just go around killing massive amounts of people.

If they played Duke and Doom, then its almost certain they also played Quake at some point.

Though certainly not as often as Doom.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Running with Scissors, the development team behind Postal, were never brought up in the lawsuit made by the plaintiffs against video game publishers & developers. Since the game's publishers weren't either, I'm guessing neither played Postal.

AlteRoad wrote:

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Running with Scissors, the development team behind Postal, were never brought up in the lawsuit made by the plaintiffs against video game publishers & developers. Since the game's publishers weren't either, I'm guessing neither played Postal.

It does say Eric played it in Jeff Kass' book...of course Kass/whoever he got it from could be wrong.

@W.A.R. Huh. I don't even remember reading that in his book, but that said, it was a few years ago. Eric & Dylan would almost certainly have liked that game, given its gratuitous content, so it's strange no lawsuit was filed against them, given how it was one of the prime examples of "evil video games" for quite a while.

AlteRoad wrote:

@W.A.R. Huh. I don't even remember reading that in his book, but that said, it was a few years ago. Eric & Dylan would almost certainly have liked that game, given its gratuitous content, so it's strange no lawsuit was filed against them, given how it was one of the prime examples of "evil video games" for quite a while.

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Warcraft 2, Quake, Quake 2, Redneck Rampage, HeXen, Duke 3D, Star Wars: Jedi Knight are ones I remember them mentioning or  in list of items removed from their houses.
Devon Adams said they played Goldeneye 64 with her and E+D would always lose. Brooks Brown also mentions playing Mortal Kombat and a video of Dylan, Brooks and Zach playing Soulcalibur in the Columbine: Lost Boys docu.

I believe I read somewhere about one of them (or both) playing Wolfenstein? I'm guessing it would be Wolfenstein 3D

jodie-b wrote:

I believe I read somewhere about one of them (or both) playing Wolfenstein? I'm guessing it would be Wolfenstein 3D

footage is shown on the CBS news when they are discussing games the TCM group played.

Sabratha wrote:

If they played Duke and Doom, then its almost certain they also played Quake at some point.

Though certainly not as often as Doom.

I've heard Eric had a Quake team/clan called "RC Rebels" or something like that.