Fighting Fantasy Books

[fathomfive]

I was sorting through some stuff I found in the loft at my parents last night and came across a couple of old Fighting Fantasy books. Did anyone else get addicted to these back in the late 80's?

http://www.fightingfantasycollector.co.uk/book_cov...

[SplatSpeed]

good way of getting kids to actually read!

[cat@10]

They were the only kind of books I would read! That link brings back memories. I'd completely forgotten about them. You could read the same book over and over and it would always be different

Edited by cat@10 on Thursday 13th November 07:48

[Heskey]

cat@10 said:

They were the only kind of books I would read! That link brings back memories. I'd completely forgotten about them. You could read the same book over and over and it would always be different

Edited by cat@10 on Thursday 13th November 07:48

One of them books you choose which page you go to next? :P

"If you go down the road, turn to page 8"
"If you take a st, turn to page 75"

??

[MrV]

They still do them, a slightly different version I did the other night with small child was a Dr Who one

[qube_TA]

They were ace, was never really into story-books but these were fascinating. I collected nearly all of them, favourite was 'The Trial Of Champions'

[mr brightside]

that takes me back, I had loads of those when I growing up!
Talisman of Death was my favourite, read that hundreds of times.

Edited by mr brightside on Thursday 13th November 08:34

[Hereward]

Superb! I loved those.

First one I bought was House of Hell. Off to Google and reminisce now

[john_p]

I used to cheat at them

[smutbag]

God yeah!

I had loads of these, but I could never help myself,I always cheated. I seemed to figure out very quickly how to get the highest score and most exciting ending.

[Sixpackpert]

Wow! Forgot all about them, I had Citadel of Chaos and Freeway Fighter.

Happy days.

[rich1231]

Warlock of firetop mountain...

The shamutani hills set with the extra magic book.

[fathomfive]

mr brightside said:

that takes me back, I had loads of those when I growing up!
Talisman of Death was my favourite, read that hundreds of times.

Edited by mr brightside on Thursday 13th November 08:34

+1

Also Sword of the Samurai and Phantoms of Fear.

[Dupont666]

Hmmm strange, I have a sci fi version of one of those books and its not on the list???

Maybe a different author copying the style?

Any ideas?

[off_again]

Absolutely brilliant they were - short, but brilliant!

John Richardson on Radio 6 I think, did an excellent take on this. Using TV sports presenters and a bizarre storyline, he recreated the whole thing. They would get to a decision and make the wrong one - so of course, they had their finger at the earlier page so that they could jump back and make the right decision....

Brilliant.

[rich1231]

and the lone wolf series

[dekw]

Dupont666 said:

Hmmm strange, I have a sci fi version of one of those books and its not on the list???

Maybe a different author copying the style?

Any ideas?

One of these perhaps http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/series/choose-yo...
There were a few similar series of books by other publishers - never as well written as the FF books though as I recall.
I seem to remember one of Jackson/Livingstone started a new series of books with slightly more complex skills/combat/etc

I had pretty much all of the first 24 or so of those books - House of Hell and Creature of Havoc were two of my favourites

[andy400]

I recently bought the box set from Amazon, on a nostalgia trip! Currently doing 'City of Thieves'.

Lone Wolf books were also very good, and another series I can't remember the name of, the hero I think was called 'Kit'?

ETA Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h__1_9?url=s...

Edited by andy400 on Thursday 13th November 09:08

[Boozy]

That link has just brought loads of memories flooding back!!! Trial of the champions was ace, I had so many of those, always kept my finger in the page before just in case though.....

Just thought, the best ones were the ninja series, I can't remember what they were called though? think there was only six in the series?

http://www.the-underdogs.info/showbook.php?id=16

there you go, found them - you can download them for free! happy days

Edited by Boozy on Thursday 13th November 09:17

Edited by Boozy on Thursday 13th November 09:24

[8Ace]

God - forgoten about these for ages. Love them.

I remember I finished one on the first go and felt thoroughly disappointed. Trial of Champions kept me going for ages though.