Thanks, good to know I'm not alone. One wonders at times. ;-)

D&D according to the article was the birth of the RPG. But I'm skeptical. I'm pretty certain you could find RPG games prior to that. It was probably just the first one registered for copyright and sold to people on mass market. Made huge sums of money apparently. There's quite a market in games, but like everything else can be frustrating. (But you probably already know that from attempting to write computer games.)