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Something I remember reading in the 90s (or maybe very early 2000s), it was in print form but illustrated with photos, so it might have been adapted from a movie.
It was about a boy playing a Virtual Reality videogame for escapism, and getting lost in it to the point that back in real life he'd believe he's still in the game.
The game could be customized to put photos of people on the head of NPCs and enemies; he put his abusive father's face on the game's Big Bad, which made his real-life relapse particularly bad: The kid ends up trying to kill his father with a sword.
The videogame's Big Bad was named Zoltan, but that was in French, so if this media came out in another language the name might have been changed.
Edit: I think I've found it: A 1996 French Made-for-TV Movie called Génération Vidéo (so as I suspected the text◊ was a novelization thereof).
Edit 2: I've even found a review in English! As you can see, the New Media Are Evil and You Can Panic Now are strong with this one.
Edited by Medinoc