Virginia Tech shooter game
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Nothing is sacred any more. If you thought the Virginia Tech shooting couldn’t possibly get any worse, I think it just did. An Australian youth has created what he calls “V-Tech Rampage” which is a free game that can be played online at Newgrounds.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the game is based on the rampage of South Korean Cho Seung-hui who killed 32 of his fellow students last month. The game features the Virginia Tech campus and all the locations that Cho visited during his shooting spree.
The author of the game goes by the screen name Master PiGPEN and claims to have done offensive things before but none of them were this popular.
If the game itself isn’t bad enough, it gets worse. He has described the game as “a joke” to make people angry he added a donation box to it. When he receives $1,000 US he will remove the game from Newgrounds, at $2,000 US he will remove the game from his website and when he receives $3,000 US he will issue an apology.
His plan has worked, people are outraged and upset. He had the following to say “No one listens to you unless you’ve got something sensational to do. And that’s why I feel sympathy for Cho Seung-hui. He had to go that far.” Sympathy, for a mass murderer, you’re kidding.
It’s a good thing this person is not currently located in the US (though he grew up there). The Department of Homeland security would hopefully hall him off to Gitmo to be held as an enemy combatant/terrorist indefinitely. He most certainly deserves it.
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May 16th, 2007
So you want the US Government to start sending people to Gitmo for expressing themselves with their art? Go move to Russia and try and be the next Stalin. We don’t need people like you here.
May 16th, 2007
Art? Where I come from, this is not art, it is an insult, it is in bad taste (well, I guess there is no accounting for bad taste) and it walks all over the graves of those who lost their lives, let the dead rest in peace… and yes, he should be hauled off somewhere, if not by the US then by someone.
May 16th, 2007
I agree with Jonathan. That Aussie sonnaofabitch shold show some respect for the victims and families.
May 16th, 2007
LOL,
Regardless of your personal feelings regarding the “artistic” impression of a pixelated murder reinactment, the situation in America is you simply cannot add sacrimonious fuel to the fire. If you feel it is art, that is your prerogative; however, it is also the prerogative of Homeland security to take your comment and begin investigating your IP address, your personal life, etc. because of your definition of art. Such is the way of things.
May 17th, 2007
the game is so dang hard, i cant get to the 2nd level with out getting caught.
May 17th, 2007
Games like this always suck because they depend on the hype and not the gameplay. Just look at any video game based off a blockbuster movie.
July 5th, 2007
I’m not going to enter the argument (it won’t do any good, after all) but I’d like to make the point that this is more like an editorial than a news article. I think it would be nice if the more opinionated articles on site were marked as such.
October 11th, 2007
this is not meant for the writter of this article but for the person who created this game as a joke. that muda should be found and possibly put in jail for making fun of something that terrible. and why he would feel sorry for some one like that satanistic son of a bitch that killed all those classmates. thats just sick! i hope they find out who this fuck nazi minded freak is. i was born in the best place on earth…. its called america and any one who says other wise is just not thinking. plus that fucking chinese dick sucking bitch was not trying to make a point he was doing it on his own will. so fuck all that feel sorry for that shit hole cunt!!!! im pissed as you might tell, and im only 15 years old! i may be young, but i aint stupid. ive done some stupid things in life but nothing liike this!!! im glad that fucking dipshit foreign asshole killed himself because he aint never going to heaven even if he was still living and accepted god. im glad that when i die i will never have to see him where im going. hope your reading this dude cause if you are i hope ya feel bad about feeling sypathy as you put it for a man that brutally mass murdered 32 of his own classmates and a couple of brave teachers that tried to do the right thing and protect their students but were killed from this thing called Cho-Sei… i cant even finish his name im so pissed. have fun with the money that you cheated out of inocent people. ya know to me you are just as bad as the nazi’s, hitler, osama bin laden, and sudam husain.!!! this message is for the austrailian kid who created this game. and again this is not meant for the writter of this article. god bless all who feel thw same as i do. god bless america!!!!!
November 14th, 2007
This is very disturbing. The prospect of this kid getting dragged away for making a joke (albeit one in VERY poor taste) is just as bad as the prospect of killing somebody.
Many people have had to go to prison, have had to fight and die for a person’s right to say what he wants to. For all that sacrifice, to suggest the DHS should investigate somebody for defending the right to publish this game has to be one of the most ignorant comments I have ever seen on the internet.
January 14th, 2008
I think the man who created this game (or woman) is extremely disturbed and needs help. I also believe he made a point stating, “No one listens to you unless you’ve got something sensational to do. And that’s why I feel sympathy for Cho Seung-hui. He had to go that far.” But I DO NOT feel sympathy for that man and what he ‘had to’ do. I only believe he made a point when he said, “No one listens to you unless you’ve got something sensational to do…”
Because he is proving his point by making money off of this site. If his video game didn’t get the money or the publicity then there wouldn’t be any hype, and no money for him. I think the people donating the money are to blame just as much as him and are just as guilty. If there weren’t people willing to do it- it wouldn’t happen.
There are 9/11 games and games were we have re-created wars where men have lost their lives for America. Isn’t that just as bad? It may appear not to be -but it sure as hell may feel like it to the ‘commies’ or any other opposing ‘team’.
Don’t get me wrong -I’m all for violence in video games…but not after a real event that whether we ‘won’ or ‘lost’ or were the ‘bad guys’ or ‘good guys’ people still died. And that is no laughing matter.