Already drawing comparisons to Super Columbine Massacre RPG, an online, fan made Virginia Tech shooting game has appeared on Newgrounds.com as reported by Gamepolitics.com. Created by a user with the name PiGPEN, the game has players taking control of the shooter Seung-Hui Cho as he begins his assault with the murder of two students, unnamed in the game though obviously meant to be his first two victims Emily J. Hilscher and Ryan C. Clark.
After the mission is completed, players return to Cho’s dorm room to mail a package to NBC. In this section of the game, players must avoid police capture on their way to the Post Office. Once the package is dropped off, the third portion begins. Players again avoid capture before heading into Norris Hall, required to kill everyone inside to, for lack of a better term, “win.”
Unlike the prior Columbine Massacre, there’s no attempt here for social commentary or analyzing. The game is riddled with embarrassing typographical errors, the ridiculous screens that follow failure are beyond pathetic, and the choice of music is sure to cause copyright issues. It’s a sad cry for attention, and a miserable use of a tragedy in an attempt to reach that goal.
Even ignoring the subject matter itself (which isn’t that easy to do), the game is dull. Avoiding police is a matter of dodging their flashlights, which is made more difficult due to the animation than anything else. Shooting is bland, and the graphics are on the low end.
V-Tech Rampage comes at a time when the game industry itself is still reeling from both the Columbine shooting and the subsequent flash game. Media outlets will surely report on V-Tech Rampage without making an attempt to differentiate this with any retail product.
This is not something available for the PlayStation or Xbox, regardless of what a politician would like you to believe. The ESRB did not have a hand in this content, and because it’s not rated does not mean they’re not doing their job. This is completely out of their hands.
Anyone can make an online flash game, period. From the best designers to those completely lacking in morals, everyday people create flash games. V-Tech Rampage is simply an example of how terrible they can be.
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Article comments
1 - Marcus
Maybe you should get some facts straight, Super Columbine RPG was not a flash game... Also, if you want the problem to go away, just don't report on it! People who make these kind of games are just bored attention-seeking teenagers. If you give him what he wants like you are doing now, you are only making it abundantly clear that making games like this works.
2 - Knives
Well people have a right to make whatever game they want. I don't understand what the big deal is. People die everyday.
Get over it.
3 - BigFuzzyKitten
No. You are reviewing this game as if it was released for consoles and PiGPEN is making money off of it that way. Being a flash author myself, I wouldnt like it if someone wrote an article everytime I submit a peice of crap to the NG portal. Example: Disgustingly titled film released on the internet
A user of the site Newgrounds.com by the alias bigfuzzykitten has just released a flash film which combines a popular cereal with japanese anime porn. The flash itself is bland in content. It features a flashy intro, followed by a drawing of a cat moving up and down to the tune of the Romeo show theme song, which is sure to cause some copyright issues with Nickelodian. This goes to show that anyone cant put together a peice of crap and upload it to the internet, where of course everyone is forced to watch it.
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While some may consider PiGPENs flash offencive, theres really nothing you can do about it, its free speech. By insulting his flash skills and morals you are personally insulting him, and he did not ask for you to post critisisms on a site he has no control over. Review it on NG if you must, but if you posted what you posted here, the review would be flagged. Please, focus on improving yourself than putting others down.
Flashwise, as far as I know:
Flash by Matt Paprocki:
-none-
so dont act like you know everything, k?
4 - Anonymous
Man, this game is hilarious.
5 - Anon
The game is riddled with embarrassing typographical errors
You will probably like to know that this sentence makes you look very stupid to a large number of people for not recognizing that they are INTENTIONAL misspellings since they are jokes based on Internet memes/subculture.
tl;dr LURK MOAR
6 - Phillip Winn
BigFuzzyKitten said, "You are reviewing this game as if it was released for consoles..."
The article says, "This is not something available for the PlayStation or Xbox, regardless of what a politician would like you to believe." Also, "Anyone can make an online flash game, period."
Read much? Must writers communicate only in existing internet memes for you to understand?
7 - Matt Paprocki
"this sentence makes you look very stupid to a large number of people for not recognizing that they are INTENTIONAL misspellings"
I fail to see how anyone can logically assume this. I've never seen Oriental spelled wrong in any form of internet culture.
"While some may consider PiGPENs flash offencive, theres really nothing you can do about it, its free speech"
I never said I wanted it taken down or removed. He has every right to create it, people have a right to play or not play it.
"By insulting his flash skills and morals you are personally insulting him, and he did not ask for you to post critisisms on a site he has no control over."
He created the game and let it out for the public to view. If he didn't expect criticism, that's flat out ignorance. Should we not post reviews of the latest Steven Spielberg epic because we might offend him and he has no control over the site?
Also, while I did take the game and rip it apart, this is more of an attempt to educate the public who might begin to think this is a fault of the gaming industry. Many of these people simply wouldn't know any better, hence why we ended up with the mass media picking up the Columbine title.
"Flashwise, as far as I know:
Flash by Matt Paprocki:
-none-"
A movie director is the worst possible critic of a movie. A game creator is the worst critic of a game. When they know what they know, they tend to be less critical in their reviews. While a game designer may know how difficult it is to say, add lighting effect A and texture B, the average game player could care less and only notices that A and B are missing.
Simply because I'm not a Flash creator doesn't suddenly mean I can't critique it, especially in this case where this is already blowing up quickly.
8 - DaSadGirl
That game first of all, was pretty funny and great! Just because its about something that happened recently, doesn't mean it shouldn't be on the website. In fact, you contributed to it becoming more popular and the author is probably in a way, happy that you did, for the financial reasons. :)
KEKEKE BITCH KEKEKE!
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9 - Jess
As horrible as it is to say this, I was waiting for this. The subject came up at my friend's funeral, and we began to laugh that it would be submitted to a contest and banned...
10 - Bobbob
it waz a good game i liked the part when you got to pet the fuzzy kittens and dogs and the killing and murdring and never mind im getting out of control
11 - Penman
To the creator and knives-Maybe you wouldn't think it so funny if someone put a bullet in YOUR fucking head you MORON
12 - Knives
Penman crymore.
Life is fragile and it ends everyday. If I die I die just like you die. I work in a dangerous job and a 20 ton panel can fall on me and instantly kill me. I put my life on on the line everyday.
13 - julietta
unfortunately it is not against the law to have a complete lack of taste or compassion. this fool has gotten the attention he wanted and is probably recieving the most attention he has, or ever will, get in his entire life. i feel very sorry for him actually, after watching his interview on channel nine i came to the conclusion that he is indeed a friendless and socially inept loser who really has nothing going for him. what a nobody
14 - Ken Edwards
Pretty sad how the author is asking a kings ransom to take that crap down.
15 - Matthew
lol, whoever wrote this is missing the point. the dude made the game to piss people off. he didnt make it to be a masterpiece hahahahahahaha
stop trying to find things wrong with it when its supposed to be exactly how it is. enough to piss people off and be in the spotlight
16 - David Griffin
Indeed.
Another convieniant "too soon" speech. Only we're sick and tired of them. Heck, the more the complaints stretch, the more this kind of gameplay is encouraged.
...And VTR's soundtrack is pretty good to boot, unlike most video games with licensed soundtracks ^_^
17 - Kobra
This game is an insult to game designers everywhere.
18 - magicboy
the creator is fucked in the head!!!!
19 - cat...attitudegirl5292
wow this got aint got no life...nd so sick that like y would u do that...like make a game out of something so terrifying
20 - BFK
lmao, you actually think I care about that stupid Steve Irwin game? If I wanted attention from it, I would have(first of all done this earlier) submitted it to many sites and repeatedly remove/resubmit it to NG.
What I'm annoyed about is that the reviewer won't leave this kid alone. He's insulting him personally and giving him unwanted critisism.
and to the guy who said I didnt read the part about it not being for consoles, I did read that. Just because the writer said that doesn't mean he isnt reviewing it like it was.
Its not that I'm not sad about the V-Tech incident, but it seems like the writer is taking it out on PiGPEN, its not like he commited the act and is getting away with it. Besides, I knew PiGPEN from the NGBBS a long time ago, and he's an alright guy, but he was just bored... or something
In short: lighten up, its just a stupid internet game, you arent forced to play it.
21 - Chris
Haha, people got so afraid of his stupid game that they paid him $1000. Priceless, and I applaud the kid's efforts.
22 - aBlackGoblin
I think people are taking this way to seriously. Games where you kill innocent people (Babies for that matter) are made all the time. What makes V-Tech Special?