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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8688752" data-attributes="member: 6701124"><p>Went looking for panic articles and got sidetracked. Apologies for the tangent, but...1975 seems to have been a big year as far as early media presence for board/wargaming/D&D.</p><p></p><p>The oldest newspaper I found mentioning Dungeons and Dragons was about Origins I. Appearing in a variety of papers starting on 28 July 1975 under various titles* and edits, this particular copy is from The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis TN on 28 July 1975:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253268[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>*Arizona Daily Star (Tuscon): "To Play, You 'Must Be Crazy" super-titled "'War-Gamers' Gather"</p><p>Daily Press (Newport News): "Lovers of War Games Let Nothing Bar Play"</p><p>Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa): "Board battles create furor"</p><p>Arizona Republic (Phoenix): "Games played on boards attract fanatical breed of strategy minded people"</p><p>Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH): "Strategy Game Players Relive Wars, Disasters"</p><p></p><p>In Baltimore itself there was an Editorial on 2 Aug 1975 in the Evening Sun that was a bit amusing.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253269[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>For those wanting more, the Baltimore Sun had one with a lot more quotes on D&D on 10 Aug 1975 with lots of pictures and quotes about gaming in general.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253274[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p>For more on the state of the war game hobby at the time, the Washington Post had an article about it that was picked up elsewhere (like the Anderson Herald in Indiana), also on 10 Aug 1975 and well into September elsewhere.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]253275[/ATTACH]</p><p>and</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253271[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a big one on Gen Con VIII on 31 Aug 1975 (including some random quotes from a games):</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253270[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8688752, member: 6701124"] Went looking for panic articles and got sidetracked. Apologies for the tangent, but...1975 seems to have been a big year as far as early media presence for board/wargaming/D&D. The oldest newspaper I found mentioning Dungeons and Dragons was about Origins I. Appearing in a variety of papers starting on 28 July 1975 under various titles* and edits, this particular copy is from The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis TN on 28 July 1975: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657557314528.png"]253268[/ATTACH] *Arizona Daily Star (Tuscon): "To Play, You 'Must Be Crazy" super-titled "'War-Gamers' Gather" Daily Press (Newport News): "Lovers of War Games Let Nothing Bar Play" Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa): "Board battles create furor" Arizona Republic (Phoenix): "Games played on boards attract fanatical breed of strategy minded people" Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH): "Strategy Game Players Relive Wars, Disasters" In Baltimore itself there was an Editorial on 2 Aug 1975 in the Evening Sun that was a bit amusing. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657557956022.png"]253269[/ATTACH] For those wanting more, the Baltimore Sun had one with a lot more quotes on D&D on 10 Aug 1975 with lots of pictures and quotes about gaming in general. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657558797184.png"]253274[/ATTACH] For more on the state of the war game hobby at the time, the Washington Post had an article about it that was picked up elsewhere (like the Anderson Herald in Indiana), also on 10 Aug 1975 and well into September elsewhere. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657559016629.png"]253275[/ATTACH] and [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657558409301.png"]253271[/ATTACH] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a big one on Gen Con VIII on 31 Aug 1975 (including some random quotes from a games): [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657558337299.png"]253270[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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