David Farrier

Yeah, that was like a big thing in Christian circles in the 80s.

They were convinced that these like either evil toys or evil games were literally possessed by either Satan or demons.

And if you owned any of those things, you had to burn them.

And then the rumor going around, which is something that was in like my childhood as well, like this was a thing.

If you burn your Star Wars figurines, Darth Vader was particularly evil at the time, then you would hear screams coming out of the fire.

This was written about as facts.

Yeah, big time.

Yeah, that was a thing.

And remember, this was before social media and Facebook.

So this stuff was spreading through, I think it'll be Christian radio, it'll be magazines, newsletters, church groups, all that kind of thing.

And I think there were a few things going on.

So the satanic panic was happening.

Dungeons and Dragons had been released a number of years before that kicked off.

So it was like out in the world.

Yeah, yeah.

And then there was this news story where one particular kid had a psychotic break.

That made the news...

Some newspaper linked it with the fact that he was an avid D&D player.

So there's this idea that because he was playing D&D, he was in this fantasy world all day.

That's what caused the breakdown.