Ben
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Post by Ben on Jan 21, 2007 22:35:41 GMT
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jan 21, 2007 22:41:01 GMT
I much preferred Fighting Fantasy books to Choose Your Own Adventure. Same principle, but much less girly and American. On a recent trip home to my mum's I found that she was chucking all my old books out to Oxfam, but I had to rescue the Fighting Fantasy ones for pure nostalgia value. I'll probably never look at The Wizard of Firetop Mountain or Appointment with F.E.A.R ever again, but I like just having them.
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Ben
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Post by Ben on Jan 21, 2007 22:54:49 GMT
If you want to follow the bank robber with a gun, turn to page 37....
Oh shit - you're dead.
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Post by coxy1979 on Feb 2, 2007 9:54:40 GMT
Fighting Fantasy books were amazing.
You had to take about 4 dice and a pencil with you as well. I always came to a horrible death though, or I ran out of food.
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Post by LoveMusic on Feb 4, 2007 16:30:21 GMT
Oooh i loved these. I used to hold both pages, read each outcome then decide!
I loved the Goosebumps version too
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Post by Steven on Feb 7, 2007 17:28:04 GMT
Oooh i loved these. I used to hold both pages, read each outcome then decide! Heee, me too. I always used to cheat at the Fighting Fantasy books when you had to do an actual battle. "If you win, go to 47." I just went straight to 47, fuck figuring out if I won or not. |
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Post by Muinimula on Feb 7, 2007 23:29:56 GMT
Looking down that list, I think I've read two of those books. 'The Horror At High Ridge', where ghosts of Native Americans and cowboys tried to kill you, which was pretty grisly. And 'Mountain Survival', where you had to survive on a mountain, but usually seemed to die of frostbite or something.
No idea where I got the books from...probably school. Not very cheerful, though.
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Post by Dr Onion on Mar 15, 2007 13:11:42 GMT
Those books were great! All hail Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston!
Only ones I remember the names of are Deathtrap Dungeon and the "Sorcery" series of fighting fantasy gamebooks!
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Post by Dr Onion on Mar 16, 2007 18:01:08 GMT
Update!
Just bought all 4 of the Sorcery books from Amazon for less than the trainfare to Glasgow!
I bet they are crap now!
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SheSaysThat
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Post by SheSaysThat on Jun 22, 2007 12:42:50 GMT
I read the horror of high ridge too! if i remember rightly, i always got thrown off the tower by a ghost. Good times.
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Post by Becky on May 25, 2008 14:03:07 GMT
I've just purchased an adult (by adult I don't mean porn related, just not a childrens book) version of these books. It's called Pretty Little Mistakes, and its ok, but not really as exciting as the ones I used to read. Its just about making decisions as you go through life really (starting at the end of high school). I've died very young in every route I've taken so far though. I think I prefer hunting for treasure and not being caught by smugglers, Famous Five style.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2008 15:13:15 GMT
I LOVED those books, actually LOVED them. They were my obsession for a while, until those detective clue books took over. Short stories with a picture of a crime scene and you had to work out who did it. They were awesome.
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