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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 6204662" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>Actually...yes.</p><p></p><p>Not only was there a cartoon called...wait for it...wait for it....wait for it...</p><p></p><p>Dungeons and Dragons (gasp...yes, Gygax had a cartoon and it showed on mainstream TV under that Name...like Whoa...did I just blow your mind)....</p><p></p><p>But it was also found in movies. One of the biggest movies of the early 80s...something you may not have heard about as you may be too young to have heard about it at that time...was called....</p><p></p><p>wait for it...wait for it....wait for it...</p><p></p><p>ET...</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I know...you never heard of it...but that's okay. You probably haven't heard of all the other movies that had people actually playing D&D (not the stereotyped nerds like you see in Big Bang theory either)...but a whole slew of fantasy movies that were basically D&D inspired or based back at that time. Unlike today...where it's more based on other fantasy themes...over half of those fantasy movies (if not almost 100% of them) for a few years WERE basically someone's homebrewed D&D campaign.</p><p></p><p>I do understand with your young age how it's almost impossible for you to imagine a society where D&D wasn't just prevalent, but had widespread acceptance with it being sold in Department stores, Sears, Toy's R US, the degradable K-mart (Walmarts weren't really a thing back then), and actually played by the high school sports teams, toys found in all the major stores...etc....etc...etc.</p><p></p><p>For a short while (and I mean short) D&D WAS the thing. It was the fad of the moment, just as big as other fads (like, more to your time period...Pokémon was around a little more than a decade ago). It was everywhere and it wasn't stereotyped like it is today (well, at first, then it got stereotyped as the Devil's game...but that's a lot different type of stereotype than the nerd's game...as for some...just the fact that their mother's would burn the books to prevent their child from going to Hell was reason enough to play).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 6204662, member: 4348"] Actually...yes. Not only was there a cartoon called...wait for it...wait for it....wait for it... Dungeons and Dragons (gasp...yes, Gygax had a cartoon and it showed on mainstream TV under that Name...like Whoa...did I just blow your mind).... But it was also found in movies. One of the biggest movies of the early 80s...something you may not have heard about as you may be too young to have heard about it at that time...was called.... wait for it...wait for it....wait for it... ET... Yeah, I know...you never heard of it...but that's okay. You probably haven't heard of all the other movies that had people actually playing D&D (not the stereotyped nerds like you see in Big Bang theory either)...but a whole slew of fantasy movies that were basically D&D inspired or based back at that time. Unlike today...where it's more based on other fantasy themes...over half of those fantasy movies (if not almost 100% of them) for a few years WERE basically someone's homebrewed D&D campaign. I do understand with your young age how it's almost impossible for you to imagine a society where D&D wasn't just prevalent, but had widespread acceptance with it being sold in Department stores, Sears, Toy's R US, the degradable K-mart (Walmarts weren't really a thing back then), and actually played by the high school sports teams, toys found in all the major stores...etc....etc...etc. For a short while (and I mean short) D&D WAS the thing. It was the fad of the moment, just as big as other fads (like, more to your time period...Pokémon was around a little more than a decade ago). It was everywhere and it wasn't stereotyped like it is today (well, at first, then it got stereotyped as the Devil's game...but that's a lot different type of stereotype than the nerd's game...as for some...just the fact that their mother's would burn the books to prevent their child from going to Hell was reason enough to play). [/QUOTE]
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