Looking for Earliest Surviving RPG Recordings...

[Delta]

Somewhere I've got a partial game of Paranoia circa 1986 or so.

The schtick was that I gave props to all the players to represent the gear they had (the better to adjudicate thievery, breakage, penalties for stuff not returned to R&D). For the tri-corder I handed them a functioning video camera and one of the players recorded the game in-character.

 

[Mark Hope]

I have about 90 minutes of a 1e D&D game from 1986 (X2 Castle Amber), about a similar length of a 2e game from 1989 (I6 Ravenloft and I10 House on Gryphon Hill, specifically the end of one and the shift to the beginning of the other) and 10 hours (!) of the finale of a long-running 2e homebrew from 1995 (portions of which were edited down a 3 hours "best of" - a subjective label if ever there was one.) There are also assorted video fragments from the homebrew somewhere as well, probably less than an hour's worth.

Unfortunately, I have no idea which box they are currently stored in (out of a possible 30 or so) but if I ever run across them anytime soon, I'll be sure to let you know ...

 

[PaulofCthulhu]

Cheers!

If anyone finds anymore, please do post!

 

[theredrobedwizard]

I've got campaign notes from a game played in 1977, which I could probably read aloud into a digital format; potentially doing poor voice mimicry. Would that be right out or right on?

-TRRW

 

[ashockney]

We have a whole variety of games that we recorded from our high school/college campaigns. This would be in the time frame of around 1988 - 1994. We also recorded our "reunion" module several years later. Most of the early stuff is "cringe-worthy" the reunion module I still listen to for inspiration! This was all D&D (Forgotten Realms).

 

[PaulofCthulhu]

I've got campaign notes from a game played in 1977, which I could probably read aloud into a digital format; potentially doing poor voice mimicry. Would that be right out or right on?

-TRRW

Earliest audio or video live recordings is what we're after, but it's good to know people still keep their campaign notes from that period.

 

[Obryn]

When I was in 5th or 6th grade, my friends and I all loved Candid Camera. So we played "Candid Tape Recorder", cameras being somewhat inaccessible back then. We ran a quick D&D session where 10 seconds into it, a giant frog appeared out of nowhere and ate my friend Jer's character. To us - back then - it was completely hilarious.

It's not really a gaming recording, per se, I lost the tape probably 20 years ago... but this jogged that memory.

-O