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Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game

From the author’s private collection.
From the author’s private collection. Photo: John Biggs

You’re at your grandmother’s. You stay up late reading the D&D Players Handbook and understand nothing. You got a Dungeons & Dragons LCD game for your birthday and it’s nothing like the RPG. You try to grasp the concepts, fondling the dice like talismans of some adult religion. You roll a new thief. It’s hours before the house is awake and you can try to play with your grandmother and little sister. You have no friends here to play with and, in the end, you will never play. The kids in high school to spend evenings drinking Mountain Dew and cursing won’t invite you into their game.

The little LCD game is too loud to play right now. You open the Goonies magazine you bought at Convenient Food Mart. It features old maps, treasure boats, Sloth. Andy.

Andy.

Stef.

The light is on in the bathroom. It goes off. The house settles. Someone stirs in another room.

Andy.

Andy.

Andy.

Stef.

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