The book also listed contact information for BADD and Pat Pulling . Printed sometime in the early 1980s. This was an attempt to draw a clearer link between the crime and the game, in the typical sensationalist fashion. The ten-minute segment pokes a lot of fun at gamers, but leaves out any references to Satanism, witchcraft, or the occult. The TV adaptation was aired on CBS on December 28th, 1982.
Gaming is depicted as an obsessive hobby, played, for the most part, by social outcasts.
One of the most humorous scenes of the film happens when Jay Jay's character jumps into a pit to collect what he thinks is treasure, only to find it filled with sharp spikes. Both videos, for obvious reasons, have Hanks' face plastered on the cover. Pulling committed suicide with his mother's revolver not long after returning home from school on June 9th, 1982. None of the other players present at the game remember such a curse. Weeks before his death, nineteen rabbits that he had been raising and a house cat were found disemboweled.