Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Fighting Fantasy series resurrected for 30th anniversary

Author
Message
Nickydude
Retired Moderator
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Nov 2006
Location: Look outside...
Posted: 28th Aug 2012 13:44
Link
Fighting Fantasy series resurrected for 30th anniversary

I remember playing these when I was younger and it was these that got me into D&D. I'm now trying to collect the reprinted series, I have 17 of them, still a long way to go!

Anyone else remember these?

I reject your reality and substitute my own...
Back to top
Profile PM
Dazzag
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: Cyprus
Posted: 28th Aug 2012 15:41
Link
Excellent! Hang on, 30 years? Seriously? Man I'm feeling old... Would you believe that I was about 27 or 28 when I first joined these forums (forum joined dates are for the "new" forum when it was created)? Now I'm 40 next year! Yikes...

But yeah, love those books! Now I'm fully moved into my old place and got all my old stuff delivered I've got all my old gamebooks. I think I have about 30 or so gamebooks, although not all of them are FF. Quick look round (am working in office) and what do I see first... Ah yes, Deathtrap Dungeon. Nice

Best FF though is the 4 book "Sorcery!" series. Good stuff those books. I've even got the linked 2 book 2 player FF books. It's a bit ropey when it comes to "Multiplayer" and didn't do it as good as the Combat Hero books (looks like Dungeon Master but through a complicated system you can actually play multiplayer with 2 books). But still, advanced stuff!

Awww, this brings loads of memories back (all the Lone Wolf stuff, my personal favourite as novels, is all online for free legally). Must dig some out sometime. Reminds me of about a decade ago half making a program to parse and create gamebooks. Those were the days. Cry

Cheers

Current fave quote : Cause you like musicians and I like people with boobs.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Libervurto
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Jun 2006
Location: On Toast
Posted: 28th Aug 2012 16:00
Link
I have a couple of adventure books, the most interesting one is called Space Assassin. It had some really clever stuff, I can't really remember it clearly but there was a section where you moved on a theoretical grid and it was dynamic (err can't remember how that worked), and there were some nice puzzles too.

Shh... you're pretty.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
CoffeeGrunt
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 5th Oct 2007
Location: England
Posted: 28th Aug 2012 16:27
Link
The important question is; resurrected or exhumed?
Back to top
Profile PM Email
bruce3371
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Aug 2010
Location: Englishland
Posted: 28th Aug 2012 19:01
Link
Quote: "Awww, this brings loads of memories back (all the Lone Wolf stuff, my personal favourite as novels, is all online for free legally)."


I've been a huge fan of the Lone Wolf series for many years as well. ALL HAIL PROJECT AON!!

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Dazzag
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: Cyprus
Posted: 28th Aug 2012 19:35
Link
Quote: "ALL HAIL PROJECT AON!!"
Yeah that is brilliant. I've only got about 4 or 5 of the early books so it's good to delve into basically the whole lot online. My early pocket PC parser for project Aon got backburnered once I realise you wern't allowed to just make a parser for it without permission.

Best actual gamebook for novel qualities though. Probably about the same level as Grailquest for me, although I personally enjoyed the Sorcery! series the most out of all the gamebooks. And the last book in the four was massive (for a gamebook).

Cheers

Current fave quote : Cause you like musicians and I like people with boobs.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
greenlig
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Aug 2003
Location: Melbourne
Posted: 29th Aug 2012 07:39
Link
Has anyone played the Gamebook Adventures by Tin Man Games? They seem to have really struck a chord with GA and FF fans. Worth checking out.

Greenlig

[href=http://zacduff.com/]ZacDuff.com[/html]
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Libervurto
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 30th Jun 2006
Location: On Toast
Posted: 29th Aug 2012 12:55
Link
Quote: "The important question is; resurrected or exhumed?"

I'm sure they'll be really popular; even people who wouldn't have been interested before will enjoy them. The internet has a strange effect of making "nerdy" things less repulsive to the average Joe, I suppose it's because they can discover these things on their own without worrying about social stigma, then they find they actually like it too! We are all nerds, whether we're in the closet about it or not.

Shh... you're pretty.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Dazzag
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: Cyprus
Posted: 29th Aug 2012 13:40
Link
Quote: "We are all nerds, whether we're in the closet about it or not"
A glowing blue closet obviously. With touch controls. And 4G. And 3D screen. And voice recognition. And a picture of the tardis inside.

On a T-shirt.

Cheers

Ps. Plus in-closet purchasing system from the land of Narnia.

Current fave quote : Cause you like musicians and I like people with boobs.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
bruce3371
14
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Aug 2010
Location: Englishland
Posted: 29th Aug 2012 19:15
Link
Quote: "Yeah that is brilliant. I've only got about 4 or 5 of the early books so it's good to delve into basically the whole lot online."


What I like most about it, is that it has the full support of Gary Chalk and Jo Dever, who were good enough to allow their work to be published for free this way

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2025-05-18 18:45:00
Your offset time is: 2025-05-18 18:45:00