[Lunatique]

http://www.fightingfantasy.com/index2.htm

My little brother just emailed me this link.

Who else grew up on these?

[Impaler]

Nostalgia is like, corn on the cob with butter on top. You see, your life is composed of all these tiny kernels, each sweet in its own right, but still an individual. The butter is the bridge, the saucy glaze that makes the whole thing seem complete, and more delicious.

[RoadMaster]

Impaler, I think you forgot to compare Luni's story with corn on the cob with butter... where the girl is like the sweet, fragile kernels of corn, and her blood is the butter... wait... that made even less sense than what you were saying...

[Lunatique]

They need to implement the corn on a cob as a new weapon in the FF books now.

"As you round the corner, you see a GIANT SLIME BLOB inching its way into the narrow hallway. To get out of the cellar, you would have to fight your way past the giant slime blob.

Your choices:

To run screaming like a little girl back into the cellar and lock the door, turn to page 118.

To whip out your corn on a cob and stuff it up its slimmy ass, turn to page 69."

[Basse_Ex]

We had The Warlock of Firetop mountain and the Forest of Doom in Norwegian, and played them over and over again.

The problem with Forest of Doom was that I could never remember which paths in the beginning that lead to the forest, and always choose the one where you simply walked past it and met up with some really angry dwarves at Stonebridge. Bah... if they can't keep track of their hammers they shouldn't be allowed to play with them!

[Tiger Eaten]

Hey, strangely enough I just have a stack of them ol' books right here after giving away a bookcase to a friend. A few titles:

"Deathtrap Dungon"
"Crypt of the Sorcerer"
"Freeway Fighter"
"Sword of the Samurai"
"Scorpion Swamp"

Didn't realize they were still around.

193

"The acid burns through your stomach wall, eating its way into your vital organs. You collaps unconcious, never to recover. Your adventure ends here."


Since we are on the topic. Anyone here familiar with the "Combat Heroes" series by Joe Dever? Black Baron / White Warlord? I think I bought it in England on a trip back in '81 or so. Its a paperback book of roughly 285 pages with no text. Instead its all pictures of hallways, rendered in the first person. A first person choose your own adventure. You can play it single player or if you have the companion book you can play PvP. Looking at it, I can just feel the authors screaming out for a chance to play DOOM before its time.

[Lunatique]

Tiger Eaten- hey, never heard of that. Total pre-Doom visionaries! Wow.

I started with the Choose Your Own Adventure books, went on to play one of the AD&D books, all of the LoneWolf series, most of the Fighting Fantasy books, and that other series by Jackson--can't remember the name.

My favorite:

House of Hell(House of Hades in the U.S.--guess the AMericans can't handle the wrod "hell")
City of Thieves
Death Trap Dungeon

Ian McCaig(that's right, the Star Wars artist)did the illustrations for City of Thieves and Death trap Dungeon, and they were absolutely phenomenal.

[Basse_Ex]

I've only played Deathtrap Dungeon as a computer game, but it's actually the game that brought me back to computers games after many years of absence since the Amiga 500 got outdated.

[Coaster]

Ahhh those are fun.
I used to read them in grade 3 or something from the school's library.

I wonder if I'm still in permenent stasis on neptune..

I'm surprised they aren't as popular today, even with the internet and all...