Fighting Fantasy

The Way of the Tiger books....loved them and all thing ninja as a kid.

I borrowed a couple of these from the library and then one day was at a book sale to raise money for the scouts and managed to pickup 4 of the books in the series for about 20p a go....fantastic.

There was also a computer game which I had on the Amstrad and it was hard as nails.

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I still have a few of them about, was my 1st foray into rpg, me and a mate at school even had a go at making our own, got to about 60 pages before we gave up, though i think our premise was wrong and should have started with a complete story and then split it up :D
 
Forest of Doom was brilliant as was the C64 game. I was also a huge Lone Wolf and Way of the Tiger fan
 
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Way of the tiger books- I remember the start of the book detailing all the deadly Ninja martial arts techniques you could do. Not sure if was in all books but you also had throwing stars(Shuriken) and also some fighting technique where you could spit deadly poison needles at people.
 
Armitage Shanks said:
Way of the tiger books- I remember the start of the book detailing all the deadly Ninja martial arts techniques you could do. Not sure if was in all books but you also had throwing stars(Shuriken) and also some fighting technique where you could spit deadly poison needles at people.
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Yep that was all in there....
 
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Came across this last night and just had to order at that price!

Did anyone else read/play these when they were younger? Such a great number of hours I put into these -- brilliant illustrations, and lovingly gruesome demises!
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Yeah i did ;)

Had a few from the series.

There is a few of them released on the iPhone , but obviously not as good as the book as you cant cheat.

Legend of Zagor , Firetop Mountain , Road Warrior ... ah the names of the titles are coming back to me.
 
Man, I used to love FF books when I was younger, so this thread has got me wallowing in choose-your-own-nostalgia :)

Pleased to see that Dever and Chalk's Lone Wolf series is getting mentions, though if I were pushed to a favourite series it would have to be Steve Jackson's Sorcery! series.

They had some nice innovations, like a spellcasting system - complete with tricks to stop you cheating - and continuity between books. I seem to remember there was at least one book that, if completed in a certain way, affected how you played the next book. For example, you could interact with characters in the next book in a way that was never explicitly presented as an option by subtracting 50 from the paragraph number. And you'd only know this if you'd completed the previous book in a certain way. Exciting stuff for the time/medium.

Another series worth a mention is the Falcon series [another Smith/Thompson creation] - where you played a Sci-Fi time traveller cop type person, frequently thrown back to historical events, chasing time-travelling villains without altering the course of history. Stealth education, dammit! :D
 
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Had 2 Sonic ones and also some uber old pictures ones (Cant remember the name, but it was a similar thin but with puzzles on each page - favourite one was a jungle trek to find a pyramid or something)

- GP
 
Still got 'Warlock of firetop Mountain' and 'Citadel of Chaos' sitting in my bookcase right now, I keep meaning to have another look but can't be bothered with the random dice rolling.
 
Loved these books when I was younger. Unfortunately threw them all away many years ago although I did pick up a signed copy of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain a few years ago out of nostalgia. Thanks for sharing this project; I've pledged what I can.
 
You rolled a 3 or less

The ground for no reason whatsoever opens up beneath your feet and you fall into the pits of hell where you spend the rest of eternity having your kneecaps drilled off by Satan and all his little pixies.

The end.
 
Another shameless bump for this project, it is the last few hours to get involved.

If it gets up to £23,000 all copies will be hardback editions!
 
My favourite was Steve Jackson's Crown of Kings - though the combat system for most of the FF books is dated imo.

I hear Destiny Quest by Michael J Ward is supposed to be excellent (basically the nearest thing to a computer game in a book).
 
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Lonewolf series was fantastic. I made the 'mistake' of my first book being one of the later in the magnakai series... it was like book 12 or something. This meant I had pretty poor equipment and I got destroyed by one of the final 'bosses' because I didn't have the Dagger of Vashna or Sommerswerd (the latter being a particularly epic weapon you could only acquire in book 2 of the series).

Anyway I had a friend with most of the earlier books so I then played them in order and had a much better time of it. In particular one 'exploit' I used was that I kept hold of all the keys from previous adventures because often "gold key", "black key" or whatever would appear in multiple books allowing me to answer truthfully when it asked if I possessed such an item, even if I hadn't found it in the current book :)
 
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