1. Super Columbine Massacre RPG!
Super Columbine Massacre is a role-playing video game that was developed by Danny Ledonne and released in April of 2005. It was made available on April 20, which was the 6th anniversary of the school shooting. The game was released as a freeware and a donation of $1 was requested upon download. Danny Ledonne originally attempted to avoid controversy and the game was released anonymously. However, after a donation was made through PayPal, Ledonne’s identity was made public and he began to receive calls from mainstream media outlets. In the game’s first year of release, it was downloaded only 10,000 times, but after it became a large news story in the United States, the game exploded with over 400,000 downloads.
Super Columbine Massacre recreates the events surrounding the 1999 Columbine school shooting. The game’s players assume the role of gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and ultimately act out the massacre. Super Columbine Massacre has a pretty extensive plot, and starts as Eric Harris’ mother wakes him up on April 20, 1999. Harris phones Dylan Klebold, and the two meet in Harris’ basement to plot the attack. The two boys think about their past bullying experiences. They make a video and load up their bags with guns and bombs. Once the pair arrives at the school, the player has to enter the cafeteria and plant bombs without being detected by the school’s video cameras. After the bombs fail to explode, the goal is to enter the school and shoot as many innocent people as possible.
At the end of the first part of the game, the two gunmen commit suicide. The second part of the game places Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in hell. The pair continues by fighting demons, monsters, and Satan. They also travel to the Island of Lost Souls and meet historical figures J. Robert Oppenheimer, JonBenét Ramsey, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan and John Lennon. The media reception to Super Columbine Massacre was generally negative and many people were offended by the game. Victims of the shooting came forward to express their disgust with Danny Ledonne.
In many interviews, Ledonne claimed that the game was made out of respect for the memory of the victims and that he personally knew a girl named Rachel that died in the massacre. In Super Columbine Massacre, players have the option of ****ing Rachel over and over again, which is disturbing. CNN labeled the game as something that a subculture that worships terrorists would play. Other people praised the game for opening up the dialogue about the problem of school shootings. In September of 2006, a man named Kimveer Gill ****ed Anastasia De Sousa and injured 19 students at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. After it was revealed that Gill was an avid player of Super Columbine Massacre, the game was taken down from its original website.