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This week, we discuss video game lawsuits with our special guest, Norman Caruso, the Gaming Historian. How did we get the Gaming Historian on this little dog and pony show? It\u2019s hard to say. It could be that he\u2019s a huge fan of obscure podcasts. \u2026 or it could be that he\u2019s Kristin\u2019s husband. What can we say? It\u2019s a gigantic mystery.

In this episode, Kristin starts us off with\xa0Devin Moore, a teenager who shot two police officers and a 911 dispatcher. When the police finally caught up with him, he said, \u201cLife is like a video game. Everybody\u2019s got to die sometime.\u201d That mindset left a lot of people asking whether violent video games were to blame for his murder spree.

Then Norman brings us our only non-violent crime of the day when he tells the fascinating story of Atari Games vs Nintendo. This lawsuit focused on the very first unlicensed games for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Brandi wraps things up with Daniel Petric, the 16-year-old boy who shot his parents after they took away his copy of Halo 3. His defense attorney said that Daniel\u2019s recent infection made him more susceptible to the game\u2019s violent themes\u2026. But we\u2019re a little skeptical.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cThe Rise and Fall of Video Gamings Most Vocal Enemy,\u201d Kotaku
\n\u201cCourt Rejects Appeal in Alabama Suit Blaming Game for Slayings,\u201d WSFA
\n\u201cGrand Theft Auto Player Gets Death Penalty,\u201d The Inquirer
\n\u201cCan a Video Game Lead to Murder?\u201d CBS News
\n\u201cDriven to Kill?\u201d People Magazine

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cGame Over For Teen Who Killed Mother Over Video Game\u201d by Edecio Martinez, CBS News
\n\u201c17-year-old Accused of Killing Mother Over Halo 3 Video Game May Get Verdict Soon\u201d by Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer
\n\u201cPetric Sentenced to 23 Years To Life: Father Says Son Regrets Shooting Mother Over Halo 3 Video Game\u201d by Jordan Cravens, The Morning Journal

In this episode, Norman pulled from:
\n\u201cGame Over\u201d by David Sheff
\nA History of AT Games (http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/at_games.html)
\nAtari Games Corp v Nintendo http://digital-law-online.info/cases/24PQ2D1015.htm