Tom Hanks first ever acting role on TV was in a movie called Mazes and Monsters. It was all about the evils of D&D and it was about a highschool kid who got so tied up in his D&D game that he lost touch with reality and killed a man. it was part of the huge scare that lasted to when i was a kid where parents were sure D&D brainwashed kids and human sacrifice was part of the game. it was complete BS but that didn't stop the scar from lasting more then a decade and this stupid movie was one of the big thing that spread it. When i was a kid children were still forbidden to talk to any kid who owned a D&D book and kids were kicked out of school for wearing D&D shirts, that is how bad it was.
I laugh now because I think alot of those people are fine with shootings in schools as long as no one is playing an RPG.
I remember the fear of all things RPG was still great enough that I had to sneak my first Final Fantasy game home when i was a kid and all the kids in my town knew better then to let their parents catch them with an RPG video game. These things were seen as a bigger danger then drugs.