britain's got talent electronic board game

Video transcript: clip from Games Britannia, Episode 3, first broadcast on BBC Four on So when the home computing revolution began, a few clever Brits were well placed to take these ideas and digitise them… giving birth to Britain’s first interactive video games.Įlite – Revolutionary 3D space adventure sets new standards This was the beginning of interactive gaming. Many of the techniques found in these game books became commonplace in future computer games. Turn to page 90, draw your sword and fight them!Ĭollecting items and risking your character’s health in battle all added to the excitement. Steve Jackson and I wrote a series of game books, these were not just a passive experience for the reader – these were books in which YOU were the hero who chose your own way through the books. Thousands of people gathered in halls to play D&D.Īnd it wasn’t just board games that were totally re-imagined. Steve and I put on a huge Games Day conventions. At every turn of the story, they’d roll dice to determine their outcome.ĭungeons & Dragons enjoyed phenomenal popularity based on little more than word of mouth recommendations. Friends got together and used their imaginations to play out their characters’ lives with tabletop figures. One player – the Dungeon Master – dreamt up their own elaborate story set in a fantasy land. It had no board, no fixed rules and no end!

Steve Jackson and I set up Games Workshop in 1975 – a company that would bring a brandĭungeons & Dragons was unlike any other game. It also provided an unexpected catalyst for the digital phenomenon. Games Workshop – Bringing fantasy worlds to British tabletopsįorty years ago, I helped to create a company that changed the way British people play games.

Britain's got talent electronic board game