The excellent 1982 BBC documentary series Fields of Play explores the meaning of play both in childhood and adult life. What do the games we play tell us about the society we live in and our relationship to the world around us? This clip focuses on the boom in board games, tabletop fantasy role-playing games and strategy games.
Interviewees include: John M. Roberts, an anthropologist at Pittsburgh University; board game designer and avid collector Syd Sackson; Gary Gygax, the inventor of Dungeons and Dragons; anthropologist and computer programmer Lee Sailer; David Pritchard, editor of The Gamer; Don Turnbull of T.S.R. Hobbies; and some of the hundreds of gaming enthusiasts attending the Games Workshop Game Day convention.
Originally broadcast 20 April, 1982.
00:00 Strategy game history
01:49 Sid Sackson house of games
04:25 David Pritchard, editor of The Gamer
05:20 Dungeons and Dragons
05:50 Gary Gygax, the inventor of Dungeons and Dragons
07:41 Anthropologist and computer programmer Lee Sailer
09:11 Few girls playing
09:51 David Pritchard, editor of The Gamer
10:22 Don Turnbull of T.S.R. Hobbies
10:37 Gary Gygax, the inventor of Dungeons and Dragons
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