Looking Back At Dungeons & Dragons 189
An anonymous reader sends in a nostalgic piece about Dungeons & Dragons and the influence it's had on games and gamers for the past 36 years. Quoting:
"Maybe there was something in the air during the early '70s. Maybe it was historically inevitable. But it seems way more than convenient coincidence that Gygax and Arneson got their first packet of rules for D&D out the door in 1974, the same year Nolan Bushnell managed to cobble together a little arcade machine called Pong. We've never had fun quite the same way since. Looking back, these two events set today's world of gaming into motion — the Romulus and Remus of modern game civilization. For the rest of forever, we would sit around and argue whether games should let us do more or tell us better stories."
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... nobody wants to play D&D with me now that we have video games (THANKS FOR NOTHING, PONG). :( does /. want to play?
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Also, if you roll 1 you caused a memory leak.
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Although our assistant minister joined us for one game as a cleric of atheism.
I don't believe you. Or should that be "I disbelieve you" ?
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Just as the players themselves paled in comparison to their peers.
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And all of these are predated by the 0.27.452a Alpha version of D&D, commonly known as Chess.
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Well, the only friend I've ever lost for specific "belief" reasons was a Jehovah's Witness(we were kids). I'm pretty sure it was because I got this crappy little D&D handheld video game. About the same time I got one of those "Jack Chick" D&D pamplets, he stopped hanging out with me.