J.C. Herz, in her personal journey through the history of video games, Joystick Nation, pinpoints the close connection between video gaming and Dungeons & Dragons:

"A high percentage of computer programmers were and are, not surprisingly, Dungeons & Dragons aficionados. There's an affinity between computer programming and games that require reams of graph paper and 20-sided dice. Both are artificial universes governed by quantifiable rules, probability, and obsessive mapping… A combination of computers and dragon-slashing games was begging to happen."