Cross-posted from the fighting-fantasy-gamebooks list, because there are people on this list who aren't on that one, and also because it's BLOODY DEAD around...
Hi - is anyone intersted in these? Steve Jackson's Battle cards. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44111&item=5906743339 Sorry for the...
(Scene. A television studio. A smiling figure walks around while lots of cameramen, engineers etc studiously ignore him.) DAVE HOLT Hi! I'm Dave Holt. You may...
Gavin Mitchell wrote on Jul 4: " It's good to be back. Show me how it's done, eh? You sure have some fine whacky baccy wherever it is you're living (Clapham?) ...
Paul Mason
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Jul 4, 2004 2:00 am
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Show me how it's done, eh? You sure have some fine whacky baccy wherever it is you're living (Clapham?) I think we can all brace ourselves for the outraged...
Gavin Mitchell wrote on Jul 5: " As it happens, it's not Clapham, but Walsall near Birmingham still. That will hopefully change, but I remember us discussing...
Paul Mason
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Jul 5, 2004 12:27 am
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Paul, you have out surrealed me. 0 to me and 1 to you. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi: Thanks to everyone for the great past advice in gamebooks! I am looking for several obscure books for some stuff I am doing at school next year. Anyone...
anything about that book I told you about on EBAY. I don't remember the name of it, but it was a CYOA book we both never heard about. Did you find it? Is it...
... Hmmmm... Unfortunately, my memory is failing me. If I did find it, it's probably on my list by now or in some folder full of things to look into. Hmmmmm....
<reposted from the fighting_fantasy_gamebooks Yahoo! group> "fightingfantasygamebooks.com is currently returning an error 400: Bad Request, although AFF.com is...
My reply crossposted from the other group : I hope it's down because they're doing a major update, because that site suffers from a bad case of petrificus...
Hi all, capitalist running dog here again...and apologies for the cross-posting. Dragon Warriors 5: Power of Darkness ...
Rob Mammone
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Jul 12, 2004 12:51 pm
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... wrote: Keith Martin could do a ... Stealer of ... with so ... You're not the only one to think so. Stealer of Souls is my favourite FF and while I don't...
The fourth Sagard the Barbarian book also has you travelling around with an army ... idea for an ... manoeuvring, and ... together, though ... enough by ... ...
Hello guys, After a long hiatus, here am I again in this mean old town. Sorry if I have not been as responsive as I would like to be in the past few months -...
... Sadly, despite still picking up gamebooks I haven't got every time I see them in charity shops/car boot sales/whatever (doesn't happen often these days), I...
... There are also gamebook adaptations of the Game Boy Color Zelda games... but I haven't read them yet. Still too busy building gamebooks.org v2.0 to...
I suppose these fall within the orbit of gamebooks. Just wondering what you all think about a)the overall series b) the quality of the books towards the end...
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Jul 14, 2004 11:46 pm
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... Yeah? I don't think they ever made it across the pond. Probably just as well after past efforts - they wouldn't exactly arrive with a sparkling reputation....
... Well, overall, I don't like them very much... they're very bland for the most part (though there are a few notable exceptions). Of course, the blandness...
I wish they'd continue the Choose Your Own Adventure book series. There's no reason they should've canceled it because I don't believe the books weren't...
I really enjoyed some of the earlier and middle books in the series- Cave of Time, By Balloon to the Sahara, Outlaws of Sherwood, etc etc. Many of later ones...
... In general I agree, but some of the books manage to create a great sense of atmosphere - I particularly like "Hyperspace" and "The Third Planet from...
Well, so it is. It seems I was wrong, they weren't down for major updates. The site looks the same. However, they did finally add my Advelh software. That's...