Editing Columbine High School massacre (section)

===Video games===
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| quote = They are able to hook into the Internet and play video games that are extraordinarily violent, that cause the blood pressure to rise and the [[adrenaline]] level to go up, games that cause people to be killed and the players to die themselves. It is a very intense experience. They are able to get into Internet [[chat rooms]] and, if there are no nuts or people of the same mentality in their hometown, hook up with people around the country. They are able to rent from the video store—not just go down and see ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'' or ''[[The Basketball Diaries (film)|The Basketball Diaries]]''—but they are able to bring it home and watch it repeatedly. In this case, even maybe make their own violent film. Many have said this murder was very much akin to ''The Basketball Diaries'', in which a student goes in and shoots others in the classroom. I have seen a video of that, and many others may have.
| source = —Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Youth Violence, [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Jeff Sessions]], testifying before the Senate on the Columbine tragedy, 1999.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cherkis |first=Jason |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-guns-columbine_us_5894d54de4b0c1284f25dd10 |title=Sen. Jeff Sessions Blamed Culture, Not Guns, For Columbine Massacre |work=HuffPost |date=2017-02-03 |access-date=2019-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209011356/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-guns-columbine_us_5894d54de4b0c1284f25dd10 |archive-date=2019-02-09 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Sessions |first=Jeff |author-link=Jeff Sessions |url=http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/floor-statements?ID=ADA43A1E-7E9C-9AF9-7EF1-9F3BEAE3E1BE |title=Floor Statements: Violence in Colorado – Columbine |publisher=[[United States Senate]] |date=April 28, 1999 |access-date=February 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161212225815/http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/floor-statements?ID=ADA43A1E-7E9C-9AF9-7EF1-9F3BEAE3E1BE |archive-date=December 12, 2016}}</ref>
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Violent video games were also blamed.<ref name="hist" /><ref name="slashdot">{{cite web |url=http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/1438249_F.shtml |title=Voices From The Hellmouth |author=JonKatz |date=April 26, 1999 |publisher=Slashdot |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821074326/http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/1438249_F.shtml |archive-date=August 21, 2008 |access-date=August 24, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nais.org/publications/ismagazinearticle.cfm?ItemNumber=144264 |title=Lessons from Littleton (Part I) |work=Independent School |publisher=National Association of Independent Schools |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209120528/http://www.nais.org/publications/ismagazinearticle.cfm?ItemNumber=144264 |archive-date=February 9, 2012 |access-date=August 24, 2008}}</ref> Parents of some of the victims filed several unsuccessful lawsuits against video game manufacturers.<ref name="dism">{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailycamera.com/shooting/2002/05lcolu.html |title=Columbine lawsuit over video games dismissed |first=Nick |last=Wadhams |work=The Daily Camera |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428142549/http://www.thedailycamera.com/shooting/2002/05lcolu.html |archive-date=April 28, 2006 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1295920.stm |title=Columbine families sue computer game makers |first=Mark |last=Ward |date=May 1, 2001 |access-date=October 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110228023858/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1295920.stm |archive-date=February 28, 2011 |url-status=live |work=BBC News}}</ref> Jerald Block believes their immersion in a virtual world best explains the massacre.<ref name="Block" /> While Brooks Brown disagrees that video games caused the massacre, he agrees elements of their plan came from video games.<ref name="Brown38">{{Harvnb|Brown|2002|p=38}}</ref>

Harris and Klebold were both fans of shooter video games such as ''Doom'', ''Quake'', ''[[Duke Nukem 3D]]'' and ''[[Postal (video game)|Postal]]''.<ref name="salon.comt" /><ref>{{Harvnb|Brown|2002|pp=36–40}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Kass|2009|p=92}}</ref> A file on Harris's computer read the massacre will "be like the [[1992 Los Angeles riots|LA riots]], the [[Oklahoma City bombing|Oklahoma bombing]], [[World War II|WWII]], [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]], ''Duke'' and ''Doom'' all mixed together."<ref name=":4" /> In his last journal entry, Harris wished to "Get a few extra [[Glossary of video game terms#frag|frags]] on the scoreboard."<ref name="HJ4399" /> After the massacre, it was alleged Harris created ''Doom'' and ''Duke Nukem 3D'' levels resembling CHS, but these were never found.<ref name=levels /><ref name=shot0504/><ref>{{Harvnb|Kushner|2004|p=263}}</ref>

====''Doom''====
{{See also|Doom (1993 video game)#Controversies}}
They were avid fans of ''Doom'' especially.<ref name=rules>{{cite web |url=https://www.westword.com/news/doom-rules-5060146 |first=Alan |last=Prendergast |date=August 5, 1999 |title=Doom Rules}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Bai |first=Matt |url=https://www.newsweek.com/columbine-high-school-anatomy-massacre-166950 |title=Columbine High School: Anatomy of a Massacre |work=Newsweek |date=May 2, 1999 |access-date=2020-04-24}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Cullen|2009|p=137}}</ref> Harris said of the massacre, "It's going to be like...''Doom''."<ref name=doom262>{{Harvnb|Kushner|2004|p=262}}</ref> He also wrote "I must not be sidetracked by my feelings of sympathy...so I will force myself to believe that everyone is just another monster from ''Doom''."<ref>Harris journal, October 23, 1998</ref> In Harris's yearbook, Klebold wrote "I find a similarity between people and ''Doom'' [[zombie]]s."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miraldi |first=Rob |title=Video games spur violence. How can we keep ignoring their impact on gun culture? {{!}} Miraldi |url=https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/opinion/2022/07/14/video-games-spur-violence-how-can-we-keep-ignoring-their-impact-on-gun-culture/65373182007/ |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=Poughkeepsie Journal |language=en-US}}</ref> Harris named his shotgun Arlene after a character in the [[Doom (novel series)|''Doom'' novels]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Cullen|2009|p=293}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Brown|2002|p=204}}</ref> The TEC-9 Klebold used resembled an AB-10, a weapon from the ''Doom'' novels that Harris referenced several times.<ref name=kass197/><ref>{{Harvnb|ab Hugh|1995|p=175}}</ref>

Harris spent a great deal of time creating a large WAD, named Tier (German for 'animal', and a [[Sehnsucht (Rammstein album)|song]] by [[Rammstein]]), calling it his "life's work".<ref name=tape2652>Basement Tapes, March 18, 1999</ref>{{Better source needed|date=April 2019}} The WAD was uploaded to the Columbine school computer and to AOL shortly before the attack, but appears to have been lost.<ref name=Block />

====''Duke Nukem 3D''====
The other game mentioned specifically by Harris for what the massacre would be like was ''Duke Nukem 3D''. The game has pipe bombs and one of the enemies is the "pig cop".<ref name=shot0504>{{Cite web |url=https://extras.denverpost.com/news/shot0504f.htm |title=Did Harris preview massacre on 'Doom? |website=extras.denverpost.com}}</ref> Brooks Brown wrote that pipe bombs were set in the halls of the school with the intention of causing a chain reaction, because that's what happens in ''Duke Nukem 3D''. Brown also wrote they shot wildly because it works in ''Duke Nukem 3D''.<ref name="Brown38" />