Retro D&D Ad- Whoa

[Rhuvein]

Yeah, I've seen this, but still funny enough to have another look. The DM has a great shirt/sweater combo!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

The dude in the blue shirt with the glasses looks familiar ... wasn't he in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

 

[Prince of Happiness]

... Like the musician?

Oh, dammit.

It's Satanariffic. There.

 

[GeorgeFields]

I'm still trying to find the dragon in B2...

If you use your pencil, you can find one.

Sadly, I remember the commercial. I had been gaming for a few years already and thought, "Wow, a D&D commercial. It looks like a bunch of geeks playing."

Does this make me old?

 

[Ambrus]

It's interesting that only one of the players actually has a character sheet.

Well, back in the olden days of D&D most groups could only afford to have a single PC which the players all had to share. They also only had a single set of dice with each player having one die which they kept in trust for the group and rolled when called upon. You youguns don't know how good you got it nowadays...

 

[Baron Opal]

You know, I had mercifully forgotten it until you reminded me.

Although it is my own fault for going there and watching it. Even with the sound off (at work, you see) I cringed.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Sadly, I remember the commercial. I had been gaming for a few years already and thought, "Wow, a D&D commercial. It looks like a bunch of geeks playing."

The D&D people look like uber-cool jocks compared to the blond kid in the Nintendo commercial. I wonder why "Nerd-Rap" didn't catch on?

 

[TarionzCousin]

You Had Dice?!?

Well, back in the olden days of D&D most groups could only afford to have a single PC which the players all had to share. They also only had a single set of dice with each player having one die which they kept in trust for the group and rolled when called upon. You younguns don't know how good you got it nowadays...

You had dice?!? You were lucky! We each got one number. Mine was 3. Do you know how often 3 is a good number in D&D? Never! I killed our one PC hundreds of times before we even got out of the castle....

 

[Nomad4life]

The D&D people look like uber-cool jocks compared to the blond kid in the Nintendo commercial. I wonder why "Nerd-Rap" didn't catch on?

I think nerd-rap peaked when MC Chris released “Fette’s Vette”:
http://webjay.org/iteminfo/18546998/97dbb0ffb7f16ac22622b2a487f49d4c
(Offensive language warning, yadda, yadda, yadda… It’s a rap song.)

It’s kind of sad looking back- I always thought that the Nintendo dork from that ad deserved more recognition as the true father of the genre.

LEGALITY EDIT: The original song is available online for free from www.mcchris.com with the approval of the author, so it might be better to get it directly from there, although you have to look for it under the “media” section.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

I remember cringing when I saw that in the 80s.

Wonder what a similar commercial would look like these days? Surely they'd add a black guy and an asian girl playing, and some CGI instead of the cartoon animation.