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Columbine Massacre
Links : Columbine Report Site | UAC Labs Eric Harris WAD Eric Harris Doom
Videos : Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's Hitmen for Hire | Erics School Video | Shooting Practice Video
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire in their Colorado high school in 1999, before this Eric had used his gaming talents (some say lack of) to pave the way in Doom's history books, there are many stories floating around - like the "He made Doom levels similar to the Columbine School lay out to practice".
Eric and Dylan created levels for the computer game Doom. An urban legend spread that these levels were designed to look like the halls of the high school, populated with representations of Harris's classmates and teachers, and that Harris "practiced" for Columbine by playing these levels over and over. In actuality, while Harris did design Doom levels (an activity not uncommon for fans of the game), there is no evidence that they were actually intended to be simulations of Columbine. Some of the Harris level packs have simple graphical modifications that 'enhance' the violent content of the game; generous supplies of monsters, ammunition, and weapons are some of the other features of the levels created by Eric Harris. Source Wiki
Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were the high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre. They killed 13 people and injured 24 others. Both Harris, 18 years old, and Klebold, 17, committed suicide after the killings.
Below we take a look at some of the websites and doom related material that Eric left behind after his death.
Below is a WAD (dowload package for Doom) that made it into the "The Top 10 Infamous WADs" at Doomworld :
UAC Labs - Eric Harris
Link : Doomworld Article and Download
No point in beating around the bush: Eric Harris made some Doom WADs, and then he killed people. One of the Doom community's greatest trials was in April 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire in their Colorado high school and created a new culture of fear and paranoia. After it was discovered that the pair played Doom, many avid Doomers found their computer gaming habits placed under scrutiny. The WAD itself, Harris' most elaborate, is unremarkable except for a few now-chilling features. The monsters have brand-new death graphics, doused in added blood and gore. And the text file's admonition of "KILL 'EM AAAAALLLL!!!!!," which would normally be nothing more than adolescent juvenilia, carry a certain premonitory weight. (Ling)
Snopes.com has good report on the events surrounding Doom and the Urban Legends.
Link : Snopes Madman of Doom Report
"Harris created customized Doom scenarios, adding his own graphics and sounds, and posted them on the Web page for other players to download and use. Before the page was removed by America Online on Wednesday, The Courant downloaded copies of some of the files."
They included a scenario, called "Deathmatching in Bricks!," in which Harris boasted of adding bloody graphics and thanked his "good friend Dylan Klebold for helping me play-test this." Harris described the scene:
"You are placed in a large, open arena to fight in. There are multiple stair cases and lots of ammo laying around. There are
The game scenarios, four in all, appear to have been posted on the Web site in 1996 and 1997.
Below Article Pieces are from : http://acolumbinesite.com/eric.html
To quote The Denver Post Online's profile that ran: Eric Harris was a killer, certainly cold-blooded, probably deranged. But to simply boil an 18-year-old high school senior down to a soulless, Nazi-loving monster is too easy, too clean. It misses the point: If most kids have two sides, Harris had 10 - some charming, some spiteful, one lethal.
During his freshman year, Eric met Tiffany Typher in German class and took her to the homecoming. It was their only date and when she refused to go out with him again, Eric staged a fake 'suicide', sprawling on the ground with fake blood splashed all over him. He later wrote in her yearbook (and Nate Dykeman's): "Ich bin Gott" - "I am God".
Eric and Dylan hooked up their computers on a network to play Doom together online though it was Eric who had the stronger web presence. Eric's (aka REB, Rebel, Rebdoomer, Rebdomine and probably more) webpages have gotten much media hype but from what I've been able to scrounge, all this hype is the typical media nonsense.
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