Fighting Fantasy books in the 80s?

Anyone else remember them? Was addicted to them. And now I hate sci fi and fantasy. Had the first 10 or 15 of these books...

  On 6/24/2010 at 3:06 PM, Conor74 said:

 

LOL - I had shit loads of them. That one included, I'd just go by charity shops and pick them up for about 10p each. It was great seeing other peoples scrawls in there. Actually.. I preferred seeing what previous readers had written in the book to the actual book itself. I've always loved preowned books for that reason. One time I got a book and somebody had pressed a daisy in between the pages. A little dry papery daisy was just stuck in there, it was kinda nice.

This is pretty neat...

http://homepage.mac.com/arekkusu/FF/i/FFmo.jpg

Hahaha, some of the titles are classic. APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR

My school library had some of these, you had to use dice and other stuff to keep record like an RPG board-game, I liked the artwork on them a lot back then.

oh yeah, these were a big deal for me

also the lone wolf series

I think I still have a load of these somewhere.

  On 6/24/2010 at 4:41 PM, kaini said:

oh yeah, these were a big deal for me

also the lone wolf series

Was it the Lone Wolf series that had drawings of half nekkid women?

  On 6/24/2010 at 4:11 PM, Obel said:

  On 6/24/2010 at 3:06 PM, Conor74 said:

 

 

I've always loved preowned books for that reason. One time I got a book and somebody had pressed a daisy in between the pages. A little dry papery daisy was just stuck in there, it was kinda nice.

AND THE GAYDAR GOES PING!

  On 6/24/2010 at 5:25 PM, keltoi said:

  On 6/24/2010 at 4:11 PM, Obel said:

  On 6/24/2010 at 3:06 PM, Conor74 said:

 

 

I've always loved preowned books for that reason. One time I got a book and somebody had pressed a daisy in between the pages. A little dry papery daisy was just stuck in there, it was kinda nice.

 

AND THE GAYDAR GOES PING!

Yeah, I've been a raving homo since I was 5. Good spot!

hah yeah had loads of these. Were fun. Think ive still got some in my parents attic somewhere....

Lone Wolf - sorta remember those.

  On 6/24/2010 at 5:17 PM, Conor74 said:

  On 6/24/2010 at 4:41 PM, kaini said:

oh yeah, these were a big deal for me

also the lone wolf series

 

Was it the Lone Wolf series that had drawings of half nekkid women?

no, he was a karate monk kinda chap. joe dever and gary chalk wrote 'em.

i think i read city of thieves... these are the books that you used dice to fight and shit right?

yeah, but just the regular six-sided fellas.

I rememeber the warlock of firetop mountain by steve jackson. It came free with the ZX spectrum game of the same name. The game was abysmal.

If you remember this turn to page 79

If you don't remember this turn to page 273

Had loads of these back in the day, used to love the atmosphere they'd invoke (at the time). I got bored of the fighting really quickly though and just ended up awarding myself a bye every time.

  On 6/24/2010 at 4:17 PM, Conor74 said:

This is pretty neat...

 

http://homepage.mac.com/arekkusu/FF/i/FFmo.jpg

Steve Jackson's 'Sorcery!' I fucking loved that series.

Advanced Fighting Fantasy - thats when it all started getting a little too geeky

I was reading the TARGET line of Doctor Who books back then (80's)

  On 6/25/2010 at 10:42 PM, Joyrex said:

I was reading the TARGET line of Doctor Who books back then (80's)

I think I started reading those in the late 70s, still a boxful of them in the loft at my Mum & Dad's house.

You've probably already seen this Joyrex, but some of these covers made me feel very sad and nostalgic (and old). The links have the original illustrations from those books that had them as well.