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A small child picks up a copy of his favorite game Unreal Tournament, he immediately begins slaughtering his opponents with a wide variety of weaponry. Blood, guts, and internal organs are scattered as far as the eye can see. Could this child be utterly transformed into a psychopathic serial killer from playing a violent video game such as this? Can battling demons and humanoids on far off planets on a video game system possibly be connected to the horror of real-life homicide? The tragedy which took place at Columbine was blamed, supposedly, on the computer game doom. If that indeed was the case for mass murder, a significantly larger amount of youth violence would be recognized. Although violence is more prevalent than ever in todays society, studies and fact have failed to prove videogames as the prime suspect. With the introduction of the game Wolfenstein in 1992, computer gamers were, for the first time ever, able to explore a 3D world. The object of the game was to escape from a Nazi occupied castle while taking out as many Nazi's as possible. Gamers were then introduced to an even bloodier game, DOOM. DOOM's gameplay was similar to Wolfenstein in that it consisted of running around and obliterating everything in