I was 9 then DnD was "released", and me and my friends were already playing "dungeon" for years. We looked at the advertisements, one of the guys got the game k

I was 9 then DnD was "released", and me and my friends were already playing "dungeon" for years. We looked at the advertisements, one of the guys got the game kit, and we hated it. Dungeon (our game) was pure imagination, where the DnD was RULES and looking crap up and arguments. And spending money. We argued for a day about it, and never played the official DnD again. I continued playing the pure imagination, no maps, everything vocal and conveyed live, like impromptu jazz, through the 80's, until my career ate my life.