That was the full authority of the US government.īruce Sterling wrote about the raid as part of his book "The Hacker Crackdown". That's not just moms and journalists freaking out. So yeah, the SJG "Cyberpunk" raid was probably the peak of the anti-D&D frenzy. This event was one of the things that led to the founding of EFF. No charges were ever filed, as SJG didn't do anything even remotely illegal or dangerous. Someone found out about their upcoming game "Cyberpunk", declared it a "manual for computer terrorism", and the Secret Service flipped out. Cut to Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games - an incredibly animated person - having an absolute freakout while explaining how the Secret Service raided his business and seized all his inventory, computers, everything. My favorite moment in the rough cut starts with Frank Chadwick of GDW talking about how the anti-RPG frenzy didn't affect them (at the time, GDW mostly made a science fiction RPG called Traveller). And it may not have convinced me to start a bonfire with my sourcebooks-those things are expensive-but as far as Dark Dungeons: The Movie? I’m definitely a convert.A friend of mine has an as-yet-unfinished documentary about the early history of RPGs, based on interview footage he shot in early 2000s (including interviews with Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson). In staying true to the spirit of the original, Ralls, Gonda, and company have captured its bizarre, campy charm. In fact, the resulting movie is entertaining precisely because it’s not a parody. You can’t satirize something so far out of touch with reality. If Ralls had set out to parody Dark Dungeons, he almost certainly would have failed, because it is made by people who believe that Cthulhu is real and coming for your soul. The movie, like the tract, ends with a book burning (“Luckily, because of our relationships with some gaming companies, we were able to get the rights to burn certain gaming books,” says Dobyns).
Gaming is a seedy, bacchanalian underworld one step short of an orgy, where players learn to cast spells alongside their characters. Save for a few gamer-friendly easter eggs for gamers and cameos by ZOE regulars, the movie is carefully faithful to Chick’s world. The filmmakers set out to present an on-the-nose interpretation of Chick’s perspective on gaming, and that’s exactly what they did.
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