Watching you place those stickers took me right back to Christmas morning, unwrapping my very own Dark Tower! Those brigands (gangs who ambush and rob unwary travelers) didn't stand a chance against you today. You showed them who's boss!
The game made it across the pond to Britain, and I remember a school friend having one, but as far as I can remember it escaped having a satanic panic about it (although we had plenty of satanic panics about other things, e.g. a series called Robin of Sherwood which was thought to have too many witches and warlocks in it).
@@RandiRainI was surprised by the plugs too. I repair arcade games and lots of other stuff, so I immediately recognized that AMP IDC plug. I’ve always been a tinkerer and did the same as you, taking my toys apart to try fixing them or just to see how they worked.. then forgot where parts and screws went. We didn’t have cellphone cameras back then, so I learned to make drawings and even insert the screws through the drawing (usually on paper or cardboard) and place the parts on top to remind me where everything goes. I’m about the same age as you. I remember the game but never played it. The commercial was intriguing but didn’t explain how to play it.
I remember watching "Mazes and Monsters" when it came out! I liked it. My best friend had a Dark Tower that we played a few times. I never had one until this year. Box is missing a side panel, but otherwise all there and working,
oh wow! I have this game, I got it in the early 90s at a garage sell for 2 bux complete. But the tower never worked, so I've never actually played it. Now that I've seen how you take it apart and what the inner workings are I think maybe I'll try repairing it. I do know that the batteries were left in it when I first got it and leaked. So since I've been a long time follower of yours I know how to fix that kind of damage. Thanks for the great videos!
I still have mine! We never really play it because it's not a very good game in 2024, but it is a great piece of History to own. And I still play it every once in a blue moon just to experience the Nostalgia of my childhood and to be reminded of how good a game the new version is (Return to Dark Tower)
My understanding is the TMS1400 is an upgraded version (more RAM or ROM?) of the TMS1000 series found in the Speak and Spell. Amazing what they could do with a 4-bit microcontroller back in the day.
Reminds me of the stuff I took apart as a kid. The first years I would have a dozen screws left after a reassembly... over time I started to get less and less spare screws until I could take things apart without having extra screws at the end. But it certainly took a few years.
@@thirtythreeeyes8624 Those are options now but digital photography was not an option when I was a kid. I had a device, a screwdriver and maybe a pair of pliers, that's where it ended.
When I was 5 yrs old I got a True Smoke Diesel dump truck for Christmas. It quit working so I took it apart and found a wire broken. Fixed it and even discovered that a small heater in the exhaust pipe(where you dropped a little oil) made the smoke. Been fixing things ever since. I only had one screw left over!!
Oh, the satanic panic was sooooooo duuuuuummmmmmmbbbbbbbb. I remember this but nobody I knew had it. I remember thinking it looked pretty neat. I was pretty lucky and had friends who would have totally been into this if any of us had it.
Me and my mom caught the Dungeons & Dragons satanic panic in 1983. She was devout Catholic, but quite eccentric, so news reports about shocked parents had us running to Kmart to grab the game. She was disappointed to only find role playing rulebooks, and not something like Satan's Dungeon Monopoly.
I never had this, but my cousin did, so whenever we had a family gathering, this is what we did. There is a new, updated version of this called Return to Dark Tower that is not only worth checking out, but is also a better game overall. I would still love to have a working copy of this version, though.
My parents bought for me the arcade game Satan's Hollow (cocktail cabinet version) for my birthday from an estate sale. That was the end of my friendship with Andy. Andy's parents were lame! He wasn't allowed to eat devil's food cake.
A friend of mine had this game back in the day. The key is to make sure you have fresh d batteries as you can only play about two games before they are drained.
Yeah, growing up anything that made that much noise bore the Mark of the Beast in my parents eyes. Of course they played D&D and used Ouija Boards when they were younger so they were just grumpier after they had me.
Ouija boards weren't Satanic, just occult. It was fucked up that parents let their kids be exposed to that shit. Like how today they're exposed to drag queens and overtly sexual material in school.
One of my favorite games! I also got it for Xmas the year it came out. I always got attacked by brigands... ended up disassembling it as well, even the magnets from the speakers and the motor core. It's healthy, I ended up studying electronics and design. I wish I still had it, but fire cleanses all. It was a fun life. Okay, time to listen to Judas Priest and sacrifice goats in the woods.
Children's toys and games eventually get thrown out, sold, or given away as we get older, and for the most part we don't think about them anymore. But Dark Tower is one that I regret selling, even though it's been over 20 years since I sold it. I did buy the Return to Dark Tower game, but the fact that you have to use an app on your smart phone to control the tower, instead of just pushing buttons on the tower itself, cheapens the experience. I mean if all I wanted was to play on my cell phone I'd go sit on the toilet for a half hour or something.
Hi Randi. Thanks for showing this. I have 2 of them in excellent condition. I do need to repair one of the boxes with a partially ripped corner. I didn't know about this game until the mid 2000's when my then girlfriend told me about it. There was an app of this game, but I'm not sure if it is still available. There is an app to use with the Return of the Dark Tower game.
I'm 50 years old and actually liked the satanic panic as a kid. I loved fantasy toys and games, loved horror movies and I listened to Iron Maiden, AC/DC and all bands deemed "satanic". It was quite exiting really, without me being a satanist of course. I have never seen this game before, many toys made for the US market never made it to Europe. You American kids were lucky!
I liked games that had three dimensional buildings such as Dark Tower, Life, and others. I loved this game. I don't recall the Satanic backlash but maybe I was just clueless.
Amazed how some people's tastes could comport so exactly to god's wishes. I mean what are the odds? The really dark part of that time was it gave cover to the clergy to commit unspeakable acts for decades. Imagine if they had played this game.
Loved this game when I was a kid. I wasn't labeled a Satanist for it, though. I WAS labeled a Satanist for my constant recitals of "Look At Me Damien! It's All For You!" and "Hail Rosemary! Hail Year One!"
It's consumer electronics meets Satan with naive child users.............so It's basically EvilSpeak, the classic 80s horror film... But instead of making you fly, giving you dominion over your peers, gives you insights and powers beyond imagination, this is likely to sit on a shelf as a cool looking ornament, until it ends up in a yard sale minus the actual board and game pieces! I do love that they used the same exact font used on MOTU figure packs for the character display pictures. In fact I'm surprised this wasn't repurposed as a MOTU item or game when that became popular. I could definitely see this reused as something to do with the Sorceress, maybe moulded in white, or an extension piece to Castle Grayskull or Snake Mountain, moulded in colour to match those.
Well then, you need to sleep with a rock under your pillow for one month, smile at everyone you meet for at least a week, and send me $200 right away. That's the only way you can get the devil out of you.
Actually there's not much to it. Electronics don't use much power, so it's just a motor with almost practically no load on it and 3 light bulbs which only 1 lights up at a time. I have 2 of these and the batteries last a long long time.
Another "thang" I've never heard of... I'm going to have to start asking around and see if I was possibly in a COMA on odd or even decades. "Satanic Panic? I'll have to dig out my 8 Ball and ask it, him? her? them? those! All very perplexing but quite interesting infoTainment!
that was amazing... anytime you want to play, let me know! (i never got this and im also your age lol.. playing alone was always better than never playing
I remember this game, it was alright but nothing to get worked up about, but apparently sword & sorcery fantasy was very upsetting to a lot of normies in the 70s and 80s, if it wasn't Winnie the Pooh or The Peanuts tears would be flowing!
I didn't have that one, don't think it interested me. But I did have the Mattel Dungeons & Dragons which I liked because it was 1 player. Also had the small handheld. Wish I still had those 2.
Thats because there is nothing Satanic about it. Only in America with some Bible bashing hysterics could this have happened. Its a medieval fantasy of knights and dragons and no worse than Lord of the Rings or any Dungeons and Dragons game. Satan is never mentioned, or worshiped or fought or even on the box art or instructions.
I am very glad I never had this as a child. It basically screams at me just by watching your video: KILL THE CAT. Lucky for my cat that I never had such an evil toy. I did have a Simon Says and Merlin though... any info on hidden messages these toys converged? Did I become a phrase parrot just because of Simon? Is there an option to sue HASBRO for the damage done? But my absolute favourite toy was the orginal Captian Future Professor Simon Wright!!!
Be truthful, did you just take it apart to prove to your 12 year old self that you could put it back together? lol. I was the same way as a kid, took all my toys apart, and never could get them back together.
Can anyone remember the VHS board game called atmosphere. I still have that in its box with video tape and add on game set . I never play it anymore it’s just bagged up and stored away. No body wants it because no one uses VHS anymore.
I'm about your age, and I had wanted that game badly. Now, looking at the game pieces really triggers my memory as if I had seen them first hand previously, but I do not recall playing it anywhere or any of my friends owning one. Maybe I got one and something happened to it right away, so I never experienced it much . . . although I feel as though I owned one, it doesn't sit well with me. I guess just old age, crossed circuitry, the incomprehensible ways of memory, and perhaps just a little dab of Satanism thrown in. However, I never recalled Dark Tower being tied to Satanism. Various metal music, yes. Dungeons & Dragons, yes, but not Dark Tower. If you were my classmate during that time, and I knew you had the game, and nobody played it with you, I definitely would be over at some point to play that game, so I hope you inform us in the video (only 58 seconds into your video when I began to write this comment) how the game was. Likely, not as good playing alone as with other people, but still hope you state whether or not you could imagine the game to be quite enjoyable with other people, and during that time period. Regardless, I remember what one of Jerry King's show with my mother, ahem . . . I meant to say Geraldo Rivera's shows on Satanism during that whole Satanic Panic Manic Mania, and it was such a ridiculous farce. He had so called experts on to talk about the dangers of Satanism, and how to tell if your children might be getting drawn in by the temptation of the dark side! Of course, like is often the case, the experts had no qualifications stated as to what made them experts. One guest, if I recall correctly, had written a book on the subject, but that hardly makes anyone an expert. They did list some tips or signs to look out for that might indicate your child is involved in Satanism. You know, typical teenage behavior, you know, developing a somewhat rebellious nature, wanting to distance themselves from their parents, making new friends, you know, typical behavior for teenagers who are trying to discover who they are. Some of the other things they mentioned were skulls, which could be replicas of skulls, or jewelry with skulls, skull candles, or any images of skulls on t-shirts, or album covers, posters, whatever. Images of the Grim Reaper was another one, along with images of cemeteries, hearses, just anything that was over the top stereotypical nonsense. In fact, my mother turned to me at one point, smiled and said in a jokingly manner, "Hey, I bought most of that stuff for you." Here's one thing that was so unbelievable that the fact that they were claiming it to be true, pretty much told me they did not know Jack $h1t about Satanism, and that they were likely some government shill trying to induce more fear and panic in the general populace, or maybe, as for the one guest, was basically an opportunistic BS artist, who decided to cash in on the Manic Craze, and defecate some POS book on the subject matter. Anyway, now get this, they claimed the reason why you found so much graffiti under bridges, and in tunnels, was because . . . . do you know why? . . . have any educated guesses? . . . because they were underground, and therefore, it was closer to Satan!!! Man, I think I laughed a day and a half from that one, and it was delivered with such an air of superiority from delivering such authentic knowledge. As if, for it would have absolutely nothing to do with being typical places where kids will hang out for they could be out of sight of others . . . and that is exactly why one would generally find a lot of graffiti in those areas, because you were less likely to be caught there, out of sight, than on some street somewhere or even in some alley! Yet, when the general populace is so easy to program, and especially when it comes to programming such a perspective that is already viewed as being negative, and you wish to make that view even more extreme by painting false pictures of the most wicked evilest things that exist and tie them directly to Satanism, people will eat that $h1t up all day long, and subscribe to that falsehood, and they will be likely to believe almost any negative claim one makes about Satanism. Yes, it is far easier to fool a group of people than it is to convince even one of them that they had been fooled. They still use the same tactics today, only on a much more sophisticated level, and combined with several other tactics of pumping great amounts of fear into the populace, rendering them easier to control, and manipulate!
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OMG I loved this game. We got this for Christmas and it was such a huge deal. TY for showing this.
Watching you place those stickers took me right back to Christmas morning, unwrapping my very own Dark Tower!
Those brigands (gangs who ambush and rob unwary travelers) didn't stand a chance against you today. You showed them who's boss!
The game made it across the pond to Britain, and I remember a school friend having one, but as far as I can remember it escaped having a satanic panic about it (although we had plenty of satanic panics about other things, e.g. a series called Robin of Sherwood which was thought to have too many witches and warlocks in it).
That is pretty cool for 1981.
Made way better than a lot of toys too. I was surprised with the plugs.
@@RandiRainI was surprised by the plugs too. I repair arcade games and lots of other stuff, so I immediately recognized that AMP IDC plug.
I’ve always been a tinkerer and did the same as you, taking my toys apart to try fixing them or just to see how they worked.. then forgot where parts and screws went. We didn’t have cellphone cameras back then, so I learned to make drawings and even insert the screws through the drawing (usually on paper or cardboard) and place the parts on top to remind me where everything goes. I’m about the same age as you. I remember the game but never played it. The commercial was intriguing but didn’t explain how to play it.
I remember watching "Mazes and Monsters" when it came out! I liked it. My best friend had a Dark Tower that we played a few times. I never had one until this year. Box is missing a side panel, but otherwise all there and working,
oh wow! I have this game, I got it in the early 90s at a garage sell for 2 bux complete. But the tower never worked, so I've never actually played it. Now that I've seen how you take it apart and what the inner workings are I think maybe I'll try repairing it. I do know that the batteries were left in it when I first got it and leaked. So since I've been a long time follower of yours I know how to fix that kind of damage. Thanks for the great videos!
I would almost be willing to bet that if you fixed the battery connections that it can get working again. Good find.
I still have mine! We never really play it because it's not a very good game in 2024, but it is a great piece of History to own. And I still play it every once in a blue moon just to experience the Nostalgia of my childhood and to be reminded of how good a game the new version is (Return to Dark Tower)
My understanding is the TMS1400 is an upgraded version (more RAM or ROM?) of the TMS1000 series found in the Speak and Spell. Amazing what they could do with a 4-bit microcontroller back in the day.
Reminds me of the stuff I took apart as a kid. The first years I would have a dozen screws left after a reassembly... over time I started to get less and less spare screws until I could take things apart without having extra screws at the end. But it certainly took a few years.
Me too... I need to know how things work. I don't have a choice.
Take pictures and or get a screw mat for teardowns.
@@thirtythreeeyes8624 Those are options now but digital photography was not an option when I was a kid. I had a device, a screwdriver and maybe a pair of pliers, that's where it ended.
9:35 my worst nightmare when working on vehicles, ha.
When I was 5 yrs old I got a True Smoke Diesel dump truck for Christmas. It quit working so I took it apart and found a wire broken. Fixed it and even discovered that a small heater in the exhaust pipe(where you dropped a little oil) made the smoke. Been fixing things ever since. I only had one screw left over!!
I used to love this game as a kid, really cool to see it here.
I loved this game so much when I was a kid, best board game ever
Oh, the satanic panic was sooooooo duuuuuummmmmmmbbbbbbbb. I remember this but nobody I knew had it. I remember thinking it looked pretty neat. I was pretty lucky and had friends who would have totally been into this if any of us had it.
Friend of mine had one. We agreed that Risk was more fun so we usually played that instead. Makes no sense but you know, we were also 10.
Me and my mom caught the Dungeons & Dragons satanic panic in 1983. She was devout Catholic, but quite eccentric, so news reports about shocked parents had us running to Kmart to grab the game. She was disappointed to only find role playing rulebooks, and not something like Satan's Dungeon Monopoly.
I can remember people bringing rock albums to the church and playing them backwards, with their finger, and making all kinds of claims.
I never had this, but my cousin did, so whenever we had a family gathering, this is what we did. There is a new, updated version of this called Return to Dark Tower that is not only worth checking out, but is also a better game overall. I would still love to have a working copy of this version, though.
My parents bought for me the arcade game Satan's Hollow (cocktail cabinet version) for my birthday from an estate sale. That was the end of my friendship with Andy. Andy's parents were lame! He wasn't allowed to eat devil's food cake.
You're singing my song. I know exactly where you're coming from. My Andy was named Scott.
A friend of mine had this game back in the day. The key is to make sure you have fresh d batteries as you can only play about two games before they are drained.
Now you can use lithium ion batteries or nickel metal hydride batteries that can be charged.
Not sure it is Relevant too this, BUT Dark Towers is a 1981 educational production by the BBC in the Look and Read series.
Yeah, growing up anything that made that much noise bore the Mark of the Beast in my parents eyes. Of course they played D&D and used Ouija Boards when they were younger so they were just grumpier after they had me.
Ouija boards weren't Satanic, just occult.
It was fucked up that parents let their kids be exposed to that shit. Like how today they're exposed to drag queens and overtly sexual material in school.
One of my favorite games! I also got it for Xmas the year it came out. I always got attacked by brigands... ended up disassembling it as well, even the magnets from the speakers and the motor core. It's healthy, I ended up studying electronics and design. I wish I still had it, but fire cleanses all. It was a fun life. Okay, time to listen to Judas Priest and sacrifice goats in the woods.
I have vague memories of this game... (and thankfully we never had a Satanic Panic in my country)
Love early 80's fantasy stuff!
They made a remake of this game, they put it out within the past few years. pretty cool
I remember seeing the commercial on TV for this game. My brother, sister and I were always confused about what the heck it was.
Children's toys and games eventually get thrown out, sold, or given away as we get older, and for the most part we don't think about them anymore. But Dark Tower is one that I regret selling, even though it's been over 20 years since I sold it. I did buy the Return to Dark Tower game, but the fact that you have to use an app on your smart phone to control the tower, instead of just pushing buttons on the tower itself, cheapens the experience. I mean if all I wanted was to play on my cell phone I'd go sit on the toilet for a half hour or something.
100% agree. The app made it lame and ruined the whole appeal.
Blast from the past! I want to play!
I would never have guessed this was from 1981. Mid 90's perhaps 😃 Looks pretty darn cool 😊
Played the game mostly by myself so I didn't use the board. Just held the tower in my lap and played over and over and over.❣
Truthfully, that's how I did it as well.
we played it a lot, my cousins got it and we played quite a few times, some times we had to watch because it was only 4 player
Hi Randi. Thanks for showing this. I have 2 of them in excellent condition. I do need to repair one of the boxes with a partially ripped corner. I didn't know about this game until the mid 2000's when my then girlfriend told me about it. There was an app of this game, but I'm not sure if it is still available. There is an app to use with the Return of the Dark Tower game.
Update. There is an IOS version. The iPad version features on screen score cards.
I had one of these! I only got my brother to play it once😢 I thought it was really neat myself.
I'm 50 years old and actually liked the satanic panic as a kid. I loved fantasy toys and games, loved horror movies and I listened to Iron Maiden, AC/DC and all bands deemed "satanic". It was quite exiting really, without me being a satanist of course.
I have never seen this game before, many toys made for the US market never made it to Europe. You American kids were lucky!
It scared me, because everything that I liked was all "satanic".
We all live in the Dark Tower now.
You're giving me a heart attack! Do you know how much that would have been worth if you didn't open it!!?
But still way cool!
Right now, in this market... Not as much as you would think. It's not for sale though.
Memory unlocked…
I have this game! I loved paying it!
I liked games that had three dimensional buildings such as Dark Tower, Life, and others. I loved this game. I don't recall the Satanic backlash but maybe I was just clueless.
I'm guessing you did grow up in the southern US? It was a big thing around here.
@@RandiRain In central Louisiana, so yeah, the south. I loved that game. The game sounds brought back many fond memories.
Humans, they disappoint me. BTW, I love those old analog 'electronic' games.
They're the worst.
Amazed how some people's tastes could comport so exactly to god's wishes. I mean what are the odds?
The really dark part of that time was it gave cover to the clergy to commit unspeakable acts for decades. Imagine if they had played this game.
Loved this game when I was a kid. I wasn't labeled a Satanist for it, though. I WAS labeled a Satanist for my constant recitals of "Look At Me Damien! It's All For You!" and "Hail Rosemary! Hail Year One!"
Good movies.
I wish they would re release old games like this. They were so cool.
They did rerelease this game, and it had an app. It stunk.
They did!
There was a Windows version back in 2001 or so. Shockwave Flash .
It's consumer electronics meets Satan with naive child users.............so
It's basically EvilSpeak, the classic 80s horror film...
But instead of making you fly, giving you dominion over your peers, gives you insights and powers beyond imagination, this is likely to sit on a shelf as a cool looking ornament, until it ends up in a yard sale minus the actual board and game pieces! I do love that they used the same exact font used on MOTU figure packs for the character display pictures. In fact I'm surprised this wasn't repurposed as a MOTU item or game when that became popular. I could definitely see this reused as something to do with the Sorceress, maybe moulded in white, or an extension piece to Castle Grayskull or Snake Mountain, moulded in colour to match those.
I watched this once and got possessed by the devil a lot and never got better.
Well then, you need to sleep with a rock under your pillow for one month, smile at everyone you meet for at least a week, and send me $200 right away. That's the only way you can get the devil out of you.
theres some pretty heavy duty electrics and electronics in there, I bet it absolutely ate through batteries!
Actually there's not much to it. Electronics don't use much power, so it's just a motor with almost practically no load on it and 3 light bulbs which only 1 lights up at a time. I have 2 of these and the batteries last a long long time.
Another "thang" I've never heard of... I'm going to have to start asking around and see if I was possibly in a COMA on odd or even decades. "Satanic Panic? I'll have to dig out my 8 Ball and ask it, him? her? them? those! All very perplexing but quite interesting infoTainment!
that was amazing... anytime you want to play, let me know! (i never got this and im also your age lol.. playing alone was always better than never playing
I remember this game, it was alright but nothing to get worked up about, but apparently sword & sorcery fantasy was very upsetting to a lot of normies in the 70s and 80s, if it wasn't Winnie the Pooh or The Peanuts tears would be flowing!
I didn't have that one, don't think it interested me. But I did have the Mattel Dungeons & Dragons which I liked because it was 1 player. Also had the small handheld. Wish I still had those 2.
oh god, i'm going to hell now, aren't i
Oooohhhh
So Satan is basically just a circuit board. Interesting….
Exactly.
16:34 🤣
The Radio Shack TRS-80 computer was more "satanic" than this! 😂
I never saw anything Satanic about this at all.
Thats because there is nothing Satanic about it. Only in America with some Bible bashing hysterics could this have happened. Its a medieval fantasy of knights and dragons and no worse than Lord of the Rings or any Dungeons and Dragons game. Satan is never mentioned, or worshiped or fought or even on the box art or instructions.
Dang this is a super high end unboxing!!! should bring $500usd if you ever need quick cash :P
Excellent video! I never found Satan to be a very good player- he cheats too much -
Plays a pretty mean fiddle.
LOL I remember the Satanic panic. So much BS. This game is so awesome.
In your face 12 year old Randi! 🤣
I know!
I am very glad I never had this as a child. It basically screams at me just by watching your video: KILL THE CAT. Lucky for my cat that I never had such an evil toy. I did have a Simon Says and Merlin though... any info on hidden messages these toys converged? Did I become a phrase parrot just because of Simon? Is there an option to sue HASBRO for the damage done? But my absolute favourite toy was the orginal Captian Future Professor Simon Wright!!!
Be truthful, did you just take it apart to prove to your 12 year old self that you could put it back together? lol. I was the same way as a kid, took all my toys apart, and never could get them back together.
lol “ and the reason… Satan.”If it’s so satanic why are you itching to play it again?
I refuse to live in fear.
@ I do as well.
Red Scare and Satanic Panic were both right
Can anyone remember the VHS board game called atmosphere. I still have that in its box with video tape and add on game set . I never play it anymore it’s just bagged up and stored away. No body wants it because no one uses VHS anymore.
I remember the Clue VHS game. It stunk.
I'm about your age, and I had wanted that game badly. Now, looking at the game pieces really triggers my memory as if I had seen them first hand previously, but I do not recall playing it anywhere or any of my friends owning one. Maybe I got one and something happened to it right away, so I never experienced it much . . . although I feel as though I owned one, it doesn't sit well with me. I guess just old age, crossed circuitry, the incomprehensible ways of memory, and perhaps just a little dab of Satanism thrown in. However, I never recalled Dark Tower being tied to Satanism. Various metal music, yes. Dungeons & Dragons, yes, but not Dark Tower. If you were my classmate during that time, and I knew you had the game, and nobody played it with you, I definitely would be over at some point to play that game, so I hope you inform us in the video (only 58 seconds into your video when I began to write this comment) how the game was. Likely, not as good playing alone as with other people, but still hope you state whether or not you could imagine the game to be quite enjoyable with other people, and during that time period.
Regardless, I remember what one of Jerry King's show with my mother, ahem . . . I meant to say Geraldo Rivera's shows on Satanism during that whole Satanic Panic Manic Mania, and it was such a ridiculous farce. He had so called experts on to talk about the dangers of Satanism, and how to tell if your children might be getting drawn in by the temptation of the dark side! Of course, like is often the case, the experts had no qualifications stated as to what made them experts. One guest, if I recall correctly, had written a book on the subject, but that hardly makes anyone an expert. They did list some tips or signs to look out for that might indicate your child is involved in Satanism. You know, typical teenage behavior, you know, developing a somewhat rebellious nature, wanting to distance themselves from their parents, making new friends, you know, typical behavior for teenagers who are trying to discover who they are. Some of the other things they mentioned were skulls, which could be replicas of skulls, or jewelry with skulls, skull candles, or any images of skulls on t-shirts, or album covers, posters, whatever. Images of the Grim Reaper was another one, along with images of cemeteries, hearses, just anything that was over the top stereotypical nonsense. In fact, my mother turned to me at one point, smiled and said in a jokingly manner, "Hey, I bought most of that stuff for you."
Here's one thing that was so unbelievable that the fact that they were claiming it to be true, pretty much told me they did not know Jack $h1t about Satanism, and that they were likely some government shill trying to induce more fear and panic in the general populace, or maybe, as for the one guest, was basically an opportunistic BS artist, who decided to cash in on the Manic Craze, and defecate some POS book on the subject matter. Anyway, now get this, they claimed the reason why you found so much graffiti under bridges, and in tunnels, was because . . . . do you know why? . . . have any educated guesses? . . . because they were underground, and therefore, it was closer to Satan!!! Man, I think I laughed a day and a half from that one, and it was delivered with such an air of superiority from delivering such authentic knowledge. As if, for it would have absolutely nothing to do with being typical places where kids will hang out for they could be out of sight of others . . . and that is exactly why one would generally find a lot of graffiti in those areas, because you were less likely to be caught there, out of sight, than on some street somewhere or even in some alley! Yet, when the general populace is so easy to program, and especially when it comes to programming such a perspective that is already viewed as being negative, and you wish to make that view even more extreme by painting false pictures of the most wicked evilest things that exist and tie them directly to Satanism, people will eat that $h1t up all day long, and subscribe to that falsehood, and they will be likely to believe almost any negative claim one makes about Satanism. Yes, it is far easier to fool a group of people than it is to convince even one of them that they had been fooled. They still use the same tactics today, only on a much more sophisticated level, and combined with several other tactics of pumping great amounts of fear into the populace, rendering them easier to control, and manipulate!