Saw this advertised as coming soon on Play.Com and ordered a copy for the nostalgia value.

http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/3361073/The-Warlock-of-Firetop-Mountain/Product.html

Used to love these books as a kid. Was anyone else an avid reader? Making me feel very old that this book will be the 25th Anniversary Edition!

Deathtrap Dungeon was always my favourite.

I had (/have) loads of them. Probably spent far too many hours rolling dice and rubbing out tiny little numbers to progress through a story.

I owned the first 51 of the original set - then sold them like a fool!

I bought the box set of the first 9 a couple of years back (the reprinted volumes) and the Sorcery 4 parter too. Marvellous stuff. Plan to collect the rest of the series.

In addition I have dug out my Grail Quest series and Lone Wolf series. Still fun to play through today.

All those who remember the gamebooks check out http://www.the-underdogs.info/gamebook.php

I remember them and spent many happy hours cheating my way through them

I remember them and spent many happy hours cheating my way through them

Am so pleased that it was not just me who did this :rolleyes:

Am so pleased that it was not just me who did this :rolleyes:

:o

That's like cheating at Patience!

But yes, I can remember many a happy hour wasted away on 'Fighting Fantasy' books.... ah. nostalgia....

StarSparkle

Wow, it's the same cover too! I had that one and the Citadel of Chaos (thank you Wikipedia for reminding me of the title). I seem to recall a Minotaur that would kill me every time I stumbled upon it :suspect: .

Wow, it's the same cover too! I had that one and the Citadel of Chaos (thank you Wikipedia for reminding me of the title). I seem to recall a Minotaur that would kill me every time I stumbled upon it :suspect: .

'Citadel of Chaos' - that rings a loud bell!

StarSparkle

'Citadel of Chaos' - that rings a loud bell!

StarSparkle

Yeah, that was really good, always struggled with 'Freeway Fighter' :(

Still Got Some Kicking Around Upstairs. Think "The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain" Was The First One. They Even Made A Game Of It For The ZX Spectrum...Like A Lot Of The Games For The Spectrum Though.....It Was Completely Awful.:gag:

Still got the first three in a box set. Even got the Dungeoneer Advanced FF books with turns the rules into a proper RPG game with DM and players.

Oooh, I'd completely forgotten about Fighting Fantasy books!
From looking at the list on Wikipedia, I seem to remember having got most of the first 21, not sure why I stopped getting them after that.

Deathtrap Dungeon and House of Hell were particular favourites, if my aged memory serves correctly.

Deathtrap Dungeon was turned into a quite good pc game.
Still got in somewhere!!

Was it my imagination or were some of them actually impossible to complete?

I loved them as a kid. Had numbers 1-20, and loved them all, with the exception of Starship Traveller.

Faves were Forest of Doom (3), and Deathtrap Dungeon (6)

Also had the Sorcery Series, as well as Lone Wolf and the lesser known GreyStar the Wizard ones (same publisher as LW).

What was the one that had a guide to the monsters that was called something like out of the pit or something? Bit vague I know, but I never got right into them.

Huh I don't get it what did you have to do?

Huh I don't get it what did you have to do?

The orcs have you surrounded!!!!

If you will fight, you must roll a 5.
You must get a 2 or a 3 to run away.

You get a 2 or 3 - you have escaped, turn to page 34.
You get a 5 or over - You have defeated the ********, turn to page 23.
Anything else - you lose 4 health points. Turn to page 56.

Ahhhhhh I remember seeing something like this but not in so much of a larger scale!

Also remembered The Legnds of Skyfall books, that used a coin to flip instead of die-rolls. Plus the Way of the Tiger books which were amazing!

Both of those serieses are archived at the Underdogs link I posted earlier.

What was the one that had a guide to the monsters that was called something like out of the pit or something? Bit vague I know, but I never got right into them.

Yup, "Out of the Pit" was a compendium of monsters for the rules supplements that let you play the Fighting Fantasy rules as a Dungeons & Dragons style roleplaying game.

There was the basic rules in a book simply titled "Fighting Fantasy", more adventures in one called "The Riddling Reaver" and then there were the "advanced" books "Blacksand", "Dungeoneer" and "Allansia" as well as one called "Titan" that was a sourcebook for the games setting.

Still have them all sitting on a shelf and I'm still hunting for volumes 1 and 3 of Sorcery with the orange spine.

I loved "Deathtrap Dungeon" as well, so much so that I just finished adapting it to Dungeons & Dragons rules so that I can run my gaming group through it and watch them come acropper of the Taskmasters!

Just realised how old I am. I loved these books when I was a kid, but I always cheated my way through them. Could never complete them any other way!

I used to have these as a kid. I remember I had real problems with the first one but revisited it a few years later and drew a map to help me through the maze.....how sad is that?

I must have passed many an hour engrossed in this series before the mighty ZX Spectrum came into my life!!

I remember two of the books being rock hard, Trial Of Champions being one - you had to collect rings or coins or something and I could never get the full amount of coins that would really "win". The other was Creature of Havoc, which was a masterpiece of engineering, but made insanely difficult because half the book was random, and the rest fiendish.

I also remember something called car wars, of which I had one book, but re-played it.

Ahh them were the days, when life was simple ;)

Glad this has struck a chord with so many people. Anyone else going to get the 25th Anniversary Edition then so you too can feel like an old git??