The Harris levels are levels created by Eric Harris, one of the two teen gunmen in the Columbine High School massacre, for the interactive computer game Doom. An urban legend spread that these levels were designed to look like the halls of the high school, populated with representations of Harris's classmates and teachers, and that Harris "practiced" for Columbine by playing these levels over and over. In actuality, while Harris did design Doom levels (an activity not uncommon for fans of the game), there is no evidence that they were actually intended to be simulations of Columbine. However, the Harris level packs do have modifications that enhance the carnage of the original programming. Generous supplies of monsters, ammunition, and weapons are some of the other features of the levels created by Eric Harris. In computer and video games, a level (sometimes called a stage, course, episode, round, world, map, wave, board, phase, or landscape) is a separate area in a games virtual world, in modern games typically representing a specific location such as a building or a city. ... Yearbook photographs of the two perpetrators. ... Staff and students evacuate Columbine High School shortly after the shooting. ... Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. ... Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). ... This article or section should be merged with video game Level Packs is the name given to computerfile packets, containing levels for a certain computergame. ...
External links
Eric Harris's Doom WADs - downloads of all of Eric Harris's Doom and Quake files, screenshots of each level and mirrors of his websites.
Doomworld - The Top 10 Infamous WADs - the two-level set "UAC Labs" by Eric Harris can be downloaded here
An entire collection of levels made by Harris, hosted by the Doom Wad Station
Snopes article debunking Harris Levels myth
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The Harrislevels are levels created by Eric Harris, one of the two teen gunmen in the Columbine High School massacre, for the interactive computer gameDoom.
An urban legend spread that these levels were designed to look like the halls of the high school, populated with representations of Harris's classmates and teachers, and that Harris "practiced" for Columbine by playing these levels over and over.
In actuality, while Harris did design Doomlevels (an activity not uncommon for fans of the game), there is no evidence that they were actually intended to be simulations of Columbine.
Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennett Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999), both high school seniors, were the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre in Jefferson County, Colorado (near Denver and Littleton) on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, killing 12 classmates and one teacher.
Klebold and Harris were not popular at their high school, and were said to have been frequent targets of bullying.
Harris wanted to join the United States Marine Corps though his application was rejected shortly before the shootings because he was taking the drug Luvox® (Fluvoxamine maleate, an SSRI antidepressant) that he was required to take as part of anger management therapy.
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