Fighting Fantasy books - Crap / Not Crap

[The Boy]

I loved the Fighting Fantasy books, thought they were brilliant. They were ACE.

Can you still get them?

Looks like you can:-

http://www.fightingfantasy.com/

 

[oddworld]

I used to read these , I never did the fights properly though by rolling a dice - I just always won

 

[Santino]

Does anyone remember Sword of the Samurai?

It was set in an 'oriental' part of the FIghting Fantasy World, you could choose which samurai skills to have, if you did stupid things you would lose 'honour' points and have to commit suicide when honour reached 0. And at the end you went to this place in space with floating doors, each door went to a different plane of existence, where you had to get these different creatures to come and fight on your side, in the stadium, against various nasty monsters.

It rocked.

Yeah, that was cool. I always chose to have archery skills. I liked the bit at the end where you recruited magical monsters to help you fight the bad guy's monsters.

 

[elevendayempire]

Meh, like I said on the poll, Robot Commando pissed over the others from a great height. Look, it had robots fighting dinosaurs. What more do you want?

SG

 

[bluestreak]

They were the fucking don when i was at primary school. I think I ended up with about 30 of them. The first one was called the Warlock of Firetop mountain.

Top Notch if you ask me

i had loads of them. i suspect it was part of the reason other kids pointed and laughed. i've still got a few, they're happy rubbish. i sold loads on ebay over the years to sad fantasy geeks.

my favourite was creature of havoc, that was well tough. the only one i couldn't complete was the one where you're an elf in a diseased forest that skips between the dream world and the real world.

 

[brahaminda]

Meh, like I said on the poll, Robot Commando pissed over the others from a great height. Look, it had robots fighting dinosaurs. What more do you want?

SG

Bollocks to your Robot Commando Pish

You have
An Appointment with F.E.A.R

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I used to love them, I think I've still got a load somewhere...




Mind you, I still play AD&D and go to LARP events

 

[fractionMan]

Those way of the tiger books were ace.

There was a special skill that let you flick poison needles at people with your toungue. That's about the coolest thing in the world to a 12 year old boy.

 

[fractionMan]

There was a non-FF series about ancient Greece that I loved too where you played Theseus' younger brother and had to go and fight the Minotaur. There was only three of them but I loved them to bits. Used to play through them about once a year. The Cretan Chronicles. Class.

I remember those they were wicked. Orange stripes.

There was also the 'socery' ones with red stripes, which imvho were the pinicle of choose your own adventure style books.

 

[kakuma]

Those way of the tiger books were ace.

There was a special skill that let you flick poison needles at people with your toungue. That's about the coolest thing in the world to a 12 year old boy.

it also had a 2000 word essay full of lies about ninja

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

They've reprinted lots of the original Steve Jackson Fighting Fantasy books, and my son has just caught the bug, hes doing the Warlock of Firetop Mountain one at the mo, mapping it out and everything, its good to see something that isn't computer/PS-based can still demand his attention. Top stuff indeed

 

[pk]

it had robots fighting dinosaurs. What more do you want?

Yeah, that is pretty sweet it must be said...

 

[dirtysanta]

They've reprinted lots of the original Steve Jackson Fighting Fantasy books, and my son has just caught the bug, hes doing the Warlock of Firetop Mountain one at the mo, mapping it out and everything, its good to see something that isn't computer/PS-based can still demand his attention. Top stuff indeed

amen to that. It probably cos these types of book involve the one thing PS2s cant. A childs imagination

 

[i_hate_beckham]

This one was fucking impossible even with cheating.

 

[brahaminda]

This one was fucking impossible even with cheating.

Oh christ, that one made me cry

 

[twister]

omg, I loved these... had loads of them... remember cheating on alot of them though. (did anyone actually EVER go back to the start if you made a wrong decision?? )

 

[brahaminda]

Does anyone remember one set of books, and i think they were called "Lone Wolf", wher you were an adept of this elite warrior monk clan that got wiped out(its strange how these elite warrior monk casts are always getting wiped out) and you had to take revenge yadda yadda......

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Does anyone remember one set of books, and i think they were called "Lone Wolf", wher you were an adept of this elite warrior monk clan that got wiped out(its strange how these elite warrior monk casts are always getting wiped out) and you had to take revenge yadda yadda......

Someone earlier in thread remembered them.

 

[kakuma]

does anyone remember the mad max ones where you were some american dude battling punks in the desert?

 

[i_hate_beckham]

does anyone remember the mad max ones where you were some american dude battling punks in the desert?

Oh.... yeah....... hang on........... i think..............


No.

 

[kakuma]

Oh.... yeah....... hang on........... i think..............


No.

nah i just made that up

 

[brahaminda]

Someone earlier in thread remembered them.

bollocks

 

[FridgeMagnet]

There was a Mad Max one actually. You had to go and fetch a fuel tanker for your town. There was all sorts of stuff like making sure you had enough petrol, and collecting missiles for your car. Can't remember the name.

 

[Dask]

Interestingly enough Ian Livingston is now chairman of Eidos.

 

[kakuma]

There was a Mad Max one actually. You had to go and fetch a fuel tanker for your town. There was all sorts of stuff like making sure you had enough petrol, and collecting missiles for your car. Can't remember the name.

i think it was called 'highway warrior'

i had no1.....

 

[Jorum]

This one was fucking impossible even with cheating.

Insanely difficult that one was.
"you beam down to planet....planet is completely water....you drown"
WTF!? These guys have a starship and teleporter but apparently no telescopes or radar.

I have an attic full of those. I'm sorely tempted to go and get them all and photo them so we can all get teary-eyed nostalgic.
Then again i'm also lazy....

 

[FridgeMagnet]

i think it was called 'highway warrior'

i had no1.....

I remembered, it was Freeway Fighter.

 

[kakuma]

I remembered, it was Freeway Fighter.

i wanted that one but my mum wouldnt buy me it

 

[The Boy]

I have an attic full of those. I'm sorely tempted to go and get them all and photo them so we can all get teary-eyed nostalgic.
Then again i'm also lazy....

http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/gamebooks.htm

 

[41132n]

Having moved house recently , I came across "The Forest of Doom" unpacking one of my boxes.
HAD to play it.
That book got me in contact with the D 'n D players at school....

That &%$* Jackson made me a geek !