Month: January 2018

Philip Reed January 18, 2018

Yesterday's D&D newspaper ad is just one example of the game's success and popularity in the early eighties. As I...

Philip Reed January 18, 2018

September 27, 1984. This Los Angeles Times newspaper advertisement promises exactly what many of us dreamed of in 1984: A...

Philip Reed January 17, 2018

Just how popular was the Dungeons & Dragons* roleplaying game in the early eighties? This 1981 newspaper ad from the...

Philip Reed January 17, 2018

July 16, 1986. Hey, a BattleTech game advertisement in a newspaper from 1986! A store called "The Treasure Chest" lists...

Philip Reed January 17, 2018

September 7, 1984. This St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper ad comes from about a month after I first encountered the...

Philip Reed January 16, 2018

This Boscov's newspaper advertisement from the September 8, 1986, issue of The Sentinel exists to remind us that there was...

Philip Reed January 16, 2018

As I mentioned yesterday, once my new book of Star Wars newspaper advertisements is shipped (see the Kickstarter project), it...

Philip Reed January 15, 2018

My newest book project is now funding on Kickstarter, and in the first day, the book has managed to reach...

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