12 Nutty D&D Media Mentions from the 1980s

[Deathdefy]

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/155782

Obviously, Hail Satan!

[Uska]

I was actually living in Omaha when the first one happened don't remember much about the fuss just one comment one of my nondnd buddies said about the game.

"dungeons and dragons is for people who can't handle reality or drugs" by some dude in the Air Force

[LordMond63]

I think I went to my first Con back in 1983 or 1984.

It was a small (like 1000 people) one here in Birmingham. I was pleasantly surprised to see one of the local television stations cover it with a camera crew. They interviewed me and the group I was a member of at one of the gaming tables and told us that footage would air on the 10 PM news that night. We all gathered around the tube to watch the broadcast and not only did they not air any of the interview, all they did was to call the segment "Geeks On Parade" while showing MY GROUP. Talk about a blow to the old self-esteem.....

One thing I found interesting in looking back on the coverage of D&D back then was how progressive, in the best sense of the word, the attitude of my high school was towards letting us play during and after school hours, either in study hall, the lunchroom or the library. We really didn't get any negative feedback from the faculty at all, which one might find surprising since we were down here in Alabama, the heart of the Bible Belt. It's obvious that there were parts of the country thought to be far more 'enlightened' than we Puritans were where gamers received far more discouragement than we ever did.