Many Flash games in the late 1990s and early 2000s received attention through the use of shock comedy or real-world events , like McDonald 's Videogame , a satire of McDonald 's ' business practices , or Darfur is Dying , about the War in Darfur , Sudan . Wired would write in 2017 , " Flash games lent themselves to the exaggerated and cartoonish , a style that eventually evolved into an affection-at least amongst its best creators-for beautiful grotesquire . Like much of the younger gaming internet , Flash games defined boundaries simply to cross them ; the best titles straddled a weird line between innocence and cruelty , full of gorgeous gore and enthralling body horror " . One of the most controversial was Super Columbine Massacre RPG ! , released on April 5 , 2005 , which reenacts the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in a Final Fantasy VI-like aesthetic . Betty Nguyen of CNN labeled the game as an example of a terrorist subculture , and the gunman in the 2006 Dawson College shooting admitted to playing the game on a website . Similarly , Tom Fulp created a game called Pico 's School based after the Columbine shootings where the player must take down a goth school shooter . There are a few other controversies involving browser games and real-world events , such as the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting reenactment V-Tech Rampage , and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre targeting the game Kindergarten Killers after the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings
Columbine High School shootings
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