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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7723373" data-attributes="member: 37579">Why? Sports are literally games. There is NO difference. In fact, as team activities with written rulebooks, there are far more similarities between sports than single-player videogames. Define "gaming industry". Because if you mean board games, then D&D was CRUSHED by games like Monopoly even then. Monopoly sells something like a couple million boards... every year. And that's just one of best selling board games, which include Clue; Mouse Trap; Hungry, Hungry Hippos; Operation; the Game of Life; Battleship; etc. That last one even ended up being made into a $200 million dollar movie.So, no, D&D never (repeat NEVER) was the big game in the gaming industry. It was always just the big fish in "hobby gaming". Do you have any evidence to support your claim that random people on the street knew of D&D?Do you think D&D is somehow less well known now and that the people who heard of D&D will have someone forgotten it?Plus... how does that equate with a golden age? People knowing about something doesn't mean what they know is true, that they're buying the books, or the hobby is doing well. Many fantasy movies between 1981 and 1984? Name them.Given the satanic panic of the time, it seems that while D&D was well known by name, what it actually was about was not very well known.  1979. I wanted the D&D Cartoon on TV when it first aired and knew older kids that played. I was very well aware of D&D, but had very little concept of what an "RPG" was until the '90s. I can look back at the knowledge of D&D when I was little. And in the '90s. And in the 2000s. And in the 2010s. And now. And D&D seems much more well known and recognised by geeky people than any time I can remember. While D&D is getting less mainstream buzz - which back then was more negative - it seems like more people now are actually playing the game. So instead of being that thing people are talking about in confused whispers of Satan, it's that game that is selling copies and enjoying.</blockquote>

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