Final Virginia Tech Report Reveals Cho Played Sonic The Hedgehog
By William on Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 7:39 AM PST In Gamer Life
The final report on the Virginia Tech shootings has been made public after more than 4 months of investigation.
Cho needlessly ended the lives of 32 Hokies in the worst shooting massacre in American history on the campus of Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007. Almost immediately, many factions of the press tried to blame video games for his violent actions. It turns out now that the most violent game he played while at Virginia Tech was Sonic the Hedgehog. No evidence was ever found that he played any “violent” or military style games whatsoever.
The report stated “”[Cho] was enrolled in a Tae Kwon Do program for awhile, watched TV, and played video games like Sonic the Hedgehog. None of the video games were war games or had violent themes.”
Fortunately, this information has been released and perhaps now members of the press who tried to use this situation to further their agendas against the video game industry will think twice about trying to use someone’s tragedy for their personal gain.
I’d like to see the media obligated to release a massive apology to gamers, and the public in general, just so Joe Everybody that heard about how he gamed with the shooters realises it was all misinformation.
Oh, and I’d also like world peace, a million dopllars in cash, Paris Hilton as a mistress, and a copy of Halo-3 on my doorstep this afternoon. Yeah, right.
By the way, what does mr. Thompson have to say about this. No comments from him ? Surprise, surprise.
yeah it’s a big shock. I’m not sure how the world of the press is in other countries, but in America we have memories that are too short. 4 months has passed and most people have forgotten all the things that were said by the press and by others. JT’s insane claims and the nasty words from Dr. Phil are all part of the past and I really think no one remembers.
Perhaps one day we will hold people accountable for their actions.
i do think an apology is in order, but we’ll never see that kind of ethical behavior. it seems that whenever tragedy strikes in the world, there’s always going to be a special interest group to take advantage of it.
The Media SHOULD really apoligize to the gamers,they talk about games brainwashing people into murderers and …I’m really sorry for those who sufferd that day(family…….)In Belgium there was a racist shooting incident,2 people where killed,1 month later the weapon-law was changed drasticlly,why not here???
i don’t think we need more weapons laws in the U.S. The real problem is how they are enforced and monitored. This guy was able to legally purchase his firearms even though he had a long history of mental illness. I could really argue that the American medical industry has failed us.
I’m with you William. Our failed medical industry is really to blame for all of those deaths, not the gaming or entertainment industry. Cho’s mental illness was known about even by officals on campus! So why was he allowed to remain? was it fear of being sued? I don’t get it. So everyone, please back up off of the publishers and focus on the REAL problem. ***plink plink*** (the sound of my 2 cents)
yeah i think a lot of it has to do with our sue happy culture as well. say they had booted him from campus.. then all kinds of groups would have backed him up in a major law suit against the school.
It’s hard to say.
ZOMGosh! Oh Noes! We should banz the Sonics the hedgehogs games!
Lmao. I mean, yes, the VT incident was a tragedy, but whenever “video games” are involved, the media and the anti-video game groups alwas say “see what happens when you play too much violent games?!”.
No, I mean, just no. Whatever those groups EVER assume about video games is almost always wrong. The next thing they’re going to do is probably attempt to ban all video games in an effort of “all video games are bad, even the kooshey-cuddley ones like Sonic”.
man, ive always hated the violent video game crap. if people are getting the ideas from video games, where do the video games get the ideas from? maybe they should focus on the real reasons, like mental illness and bad parenting.
Oh, guess this means we should batten down the hatches and ban Sonic…you know…I’d have had more sympathy for their stupidity if it was at least Shadow the Hedgehog they were playing. Even then…geez.
I beleive that if they are going to look into his gaming history they should pay attention to what games he played, as he didn’t play violent videogames they should look into mental health records and not focus on blaming the game industry.
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