Doom, a popular violent videogame, was a favorite of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the teenage Columbine High School murderers. In a chilling videotape they made before the massacre, Harris says “It's going to be like fucking Doom….That fucking shotgun [he kisses his gun] is straight out of Doom!”
暴力电子游戏的玩家大多处于一个容易受影响的年龄。“毁灭战士”，一款热门的暴力游戏，曾是哥伦拜高中屠杀案中的青少年杀手埃里克·哈里斯和迪伦·克莱波尔德的最爱。他们在惨案发生前制作了一卷令人不寒而栗的录像带，其中，哈里斯说：“就跟‘毁灭战士’里一样……这把散弹枪（他亲了手中的枪一下）跟‘毁灭战士’里的一模一样！”