Nor do they need to be to everybody's taste.
It may indeed be in poor taste to use personal tragedy as raw material in a medium that is conceived of as entertainment yet according to Ledonne and other serious games advocates, the content of computer products need not always be fun and games.
Indeed, SCMRPG has provided evidence for those vocal in American politics who wish to ban games or classify them as pornography. It is with bleak irony a game based upon the poster child of the anti-games movement has been created. Until now, however, no one had dared recreate the tragedy as a videogame. The event has become a focal point for both sides of US campaigns dedicated to gun control, free speech and media violence, and has been the subject of many documentaries and dramas.
Evidence suggests the boys were maligned and bullied and, of particular interest to anti-games campaigners, played the first-person-shooter Doom.
