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Thank you. of one of our exclusive episodes. So like with most video game movie

adaptations, this one hits about 8 to 10 years too late.

But the whole Doom movie conversation starts way back in the mid-90s after the one-two punch of Doom's one and two.

So according to an interview with Id Software CEO Todd Holland's head, there were a number of factors as to why a Doom movie didn't happen in the

90s. And he cites things like bad scripts, the inability to find Threat Producers, importantly,

Columbine, the Columbine massacre of 1999. Notably, one of the shooters was a big Doom fan. If you

live through this, you know video games are one of the things that were blamed on this shooting, but also 90% of teenage boys in 1999 were Doom fans.

And honestly, they should have moved on to Quake.

That's my one criticism of the shooters.

They were not playing Quake yet.

I mean, you know, Michael Moore made a whole movie about this, but yeah, those kids weren't a lot of stuff, including bowling.

Yeah.

But somehow, somehow the media latch on today. It is, oh, they had a video game where they shot people.

Clearly, this is why they shot people in real life. And, uh, I know many years later, not to drill this, but I know many years later, I read the book Columbine, which was written by a journalist about the entire thing. And if you read that book, you will get mad all over again

that anyone even talked about video games because these kids were like broadcasting, you know,

to the world that they had a lot of problems and no one listened to them until it was too late.

I feel like when this sort of thing happens today, there are still attempts to blame

video games for it, but I feel like it doesn't really

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