[rednesss]

Oh the hysteria towards D&D, does anyone remember the made for TV movie that they did where the kid went all psycho and thought he was inside a D&D game in real life and needed to be re-programmed. Can’t remember the name of it though.

[Shadow44]

I wish our society was so healthy that Dungeons and Dragons was enough to cause a moral panic.

[Teflonic]

That was Mazes and Monsters (1982), I was forced to read the book as a kid by my religious family that were taken in by the propaganda.

[RedMonqey]

does anyone remember the made for TV movie that they did where the kid went all psycho and thought he was inside a D&D game in real life

Yeah i rememberthat movie. Mazes and Monsters It starred an early Tom Hanks IIRC.

I was already involved with D&D and thought anyone who knew anything about D&D thought the movie character was nuts.

As well as anyone who believed D&D drove them nuts was, well, nuts themselves.

[MightyMama]

There was Mazes and Monsters, but I don’t know if it was made for TV or not. But the running joke in our house is that my mother thought it was a documentary; she was totally and completely panicked by D&D. Which is a pity, because it would’ve made adolescence much easier on me.