Play – Festival del Gioco 2024 in Modena: shortly before receiving the Giampaolo Dossena Prize for Game Culture 2024, Dario De Toffoli talks about how game culture has changed over the years.
March 2024: The future of board games
A challenging but very stimulating interview, carried out by Andrea Storchi as part of his research on the ‘future’, as part of a Master’s in Social Forecasting at the University of Trento. Storchi asked Dario De Toffoli a series of original and completely unexpected questions, which generated a series of interesting reflections.
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Paroliamo 1988 – Dario De Toffoli participated as a competitor
Paroliamo e contiamo was a TV Quiz Show that strted in France with Armand Jammot and was called “Des chiffres et des lettres”. Players had a series of matches of Paroliamo (see) and Countdown (see) to play, and for each match they got about 45 seconds time.
The game was a great success in France, where it started in 1965, but also in many other countries. It reached Italy, landing first on the TV Channel Telemontecarlo (in 1977) with Lea Pericoli, and then on the TV Channel Raidue, with Marco Danè. In the 80’s even some boxes of the game have been produced. Today in Italy is almost forgotten, it basically survives just in some magazines and in the events organized by the “Paroliamo e Contiamo” association of Florence.
In 1988 Dario De Toffoli took part as a player on the Raidue TV show, winning some episodes. In the video above the match against Roberto Morassi, from Florence.