I have just discovered a treasure trove of boxed up 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style books whilst preparing my mom's loft for insulation.

Among them is Steve Jackson's Tasks Of Tantalon, a departure from the FF books, it is an illustrated hard back full of puzzles that the reader needs to solve to complete the quest.

I failed miserably and never figured out the solution despite trying off and on during my childhood, but i'm wondering if there are any GOGers out there who read the book as kids and solved it.

I do remember the ting ring had no stones. That was probably the only quest i solved.

I might have read it. Those kinds of books are the best.

I briefly had a look at that many years ago.

Never actually tried to go through it properly though.

I used to like the Steve Jackson ones though, and Ian Livingstone. Can't remember which I actually read though... will have to have a little search.

"House of Hell" was definitely one... and from Wiki I see this: http://www.houseofhellmovie.com

"Island of the Lizard King" definitely rings a bell... as does "The Forest of Doom"...

ah... nostalgia.

Yes. I love these. In fact I did pick up a House of Hell a couple of months ago.

Few that I remembered were

Appointment with F.E.A.R. - Superhero themed book

Deathtrap Dungeon - vaguely recall that this was adapted into a game

Seas of Blood

These fighting fantasy series and the Lone Wolf series are the ones that stood out

I don't know how old you are, but there boomtime was the early to mid eighties. I have just spent part of the morning sifting through them and found Steve Jackson's four book saga Sorcery! It came complete with a spellbook that the reader was susposed to memorise! I still remember the illustration of the butler from House Of Hell, gave me the creeps.

Starship Traveller was my first, i think i bought it at a book day at junior school, and City Of Thieves was a favourite. Yeah i have the Lone Wolf series and the spin off series, plus The Magmamund Companion which i scrawled all over for some reason. I recall i had a number of Ninja adventure books too that were decent, but i seem to have lost those.

Gonna have to check the prices on ebay for some of this stuff.

I'm 18, but public libraries are timeless.

Someone put up links to web-version Lone Wolf books, I grabbed them ALL and they rock. You don't need to flip pages anymore, just click on the next path you want to take.

Now if I can just find it.....

AH! Here it is http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/WhatsNew

There all the Lone Wolf books are... Sorry whoever it was that posted it on another thread, you deserve all the rep I get if I get any for this.

:L

I found a stash of these myself, recently, up in the loft. I've gone and hooked my 10 year old brother in law on them now.

Also found my complete set of Dungeoneer books, if anyone remembers those, written by Marc Gascoigne and Pete Tamlyn. They were marketed as Advanced Fighting Fantasy, a kind of D&D lite game in which the adventure was organised like the script of a film. A fun read.

It's really nice that Joe Dever has given them permission to do this, as well as all the artists involved. This was a great series.

If you own Neverwinter Nights there is a fan made quest based on Flight From The Dark. Holy memory flash! I had some of these to. I am missing so much fecking stuff.

I want my childhood back dammit!

Know exactly what you mean! I want mine back too!

I used to have 50-odd of those FF books...Some I loved, some I hated. Most were very decent, all the same.
and CYOA were more aimed at 6year-olds, different series altogether.

The Ninja books were "Way of the Tiger" by....Marc Smith and James...something? 6 books.

ProjectAon.org was a site I linked to and someone else in another thread, also Mongoose Publishing are re-issuing new editions (part re-written by Dever) of the Lone Wolf books, too.
There's a utility called "Seventh Sense" that makes reading the html versions a lot easier, and track your character sheet much easier too.

Greystar the Wizard was the LW spin off series. 4 books in that.
Post-Apocalyptic series of 4 books he did also were pretty good reads - Freeway Warrior.

I quite liked the Demonspawn and Skyfall series of books too.

Lost almost all of them when I moved around 10 years ago. Damn things are out of print, mostly, or very expensive on e-bay :(

EDIT : If you're American, and looking for the Lone Wolf books, buy and import the British versions. Seriously. Americans butchered them, and as a gamebook, losing 25% of the sections left your story unable to be completed a lot of the time. Not only butchered, but stopped half-way through the series....

Man...Fighting Fantasy books...god i loved those things. I remember going to a local bookstore when I was a kid and checking for a new one every now and again. It stinks that in the US I think they stopped around 20ish? books or so? I have a bookcase near where I'm sitting at this moment with a bunch of stuff on it where I play my PC games and there they are all stacked up.

It wasn't until years and years and years later that I even thought of looking stuff up on the internet about Fighting Fantasy, and seeing there were other books that I never could get...made me sad!