I once surveyed a Discord server I frequent to see if people actually play this game. Only two people actually played it, despite what sponsors lead you to believe.

I then compared it to friends of mine who had seen the 1988 film Alice. Around 24 or so have seen the film.

A surreal 1988 Czechoslovak film is waaay more popular than an overpromoted microtransaction-laden game.

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On the 20th of April, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold massacred 12 students and one teacher in Columbine High School in Colorado, before turning their guns against themselves. The aftermath sparked a moral panic against not only United States gun culture, but also media deemed as violent, such as video games like Doom and movies like Natural Born Killers.

One of the lesser-known targets of moral panic was the website Newgrounds, then best known for the Club a Seal and Assassin games. Tom Fulp, after recieving several angry emails blaming Newgrounds and other websites for distributing offensive content, was inspired to make a game about a kid fighting against school shooters.

The game is a simple point-and-click adventure game with shooting sections. It is very reflective of the Columbine massacre, as the villains of the game are goths, a subculture falsely blamed (alongside Marilyn Manson, which the killers actually hated) for the massacre.

It was certainly a technologically impressive Flash game for 1999 (a full-fledged point-and-click adventure written before ActionScript) and made Newgrounds a force to be reckoned with on the Internet, but it has not aged well at all. The artstyle is pretty bad, the gameplay is simplistic and it tries too hard to be edgy at times. Overall, it's best seen as a historical curiosity in the history of Newgrounds, and I think I've played remakes of this game that have aged better.