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Post by stevendoig on Jul 14, 2022 9:31:46 GMT
Appointment with fear (from Woolies!)
First game book - choose your own adventure - forest of Fear.
Probs reada couple other choose your own adventures from pals
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Post by hallucination on Jul 21, 2022 18:20:10 GMT
First FF owned is Star Strider. I remember choosing this at a secondhand book shop as a child. Hmmm - if memory serves, I was at the shop with my grandmother, who said I could select one book, so I eyed-up the FFs there and probably selected this one largely based on the cover. So yeah, despite its downsides, Star Strider remains a nostalgic pick for me.
Almost certainly it wasn't my first FF consumed, but can't remember what was.
At the time, I had already encountered pick-a-path-type books including CYOA, and if the give-yourself-goosebumps series wasn't out yet, it soon would be (a childhood fav). Of course these don't have a game/battle system beyond picking a path. After a couple years I dropped all these in favour of FF.
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Post by paperexplorer on Jul 30, 2022 2:40:01 GMT
My first FF was Rebel Planet. I guess I liked that cover the most at the store.
I went home, drew up my own adventure sheet on a blank paper (I've never written in any of my books) and went from there. I think I turned to a wrong page and finished it after about 30 references and didn't finish it again until many years later. It doesn't hold any special place for me, but it did enough to whet my appetite for more
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Post by linflas on Jul 30, 2022 15:54:13 GMT
Starship Traveller (yeah I know). But I never completed it at that time, there were many translation errors... My second book, City of Thieves, really made me love FF.
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Post by King Gillibran on Nov 12, 2022 9:21:33 GMT
Deathtrap Dungeon then city of theives Island of the Lizard King Forest of Doom Starship Travellar Warlock of Firetop Mountain Scorpian Swamp
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Post by lt on Nov 12, 2022 22:29:49 GMT
Star Strider, not the best in the series. Somehow it didn't deter me from the FF series 🤷
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Post by scouserob on Nov 13, 2022 0:38:31 GMT
First played was Deathtrap Dungeon borrowed from the library. First bought (by my Nan) was The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.
Not a bad couple to start with. 😀
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Post by Gabe Fandango on Nov 13, 2022 4:46:33 GMT
The first FF I read was Citadel of Chaos. It was during a book-exchange reading program in school, so I didn't own it.
I loved it, and it remains one of my favourites, but it did actually made me disappointed in the next few FF books I read, because i was so in love with the magic system in CoC, only to find out that it's unique to that book and doesn't feature in any other!
The first FF book I owned was Seas of Blood, although I don't have particular love for that one. It was the first I got mainly because it was the first one I found at an affordable (for a kid) price at a second-hand bookshop. I'd read a few other FF books that I liked better before that.
My first contact with gamebooks in general was a He-Man gamebook. It was part of the Masters of the Universe series of graphic novels, but the only gamebook out of the lot (it's called "He-Man and the Memory Stone", I think).
Between that and my first FF, I'd also read 2-3 of the CYOA series, one single Plot-Your-Own Horror Stories book, Nightmare Store, and 2 (Chinese-translated) Storytrails adventures by Allen Sharp.
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Post by Wizard Slayer on Nov 15, 2022 16:03:02 GMT
The first I read was Forest of Doom. I was a little kid at school, it was the last day of winter term and we could bring toys and games in but I didn't know and didn't have anything. My teacher took this book out and let me read it. When I realised I needed dice he tore up some bits of paper with the numbers 1-6 on them for me to use.
I don't remember much about it and was definitely confused by the rules, but I was also intrigued. Not long after I bought Talisman of Death (so that's my first really) which had just come out and I was hooked from then on!
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Post by Pete Byrdie on Nov 15, 2022 21:54:22 GMT
The first gamebook I played was Forest of Doom, which I played with a friend who owned it. The first I owned and played by myself was Temple of Doom, which I bought from the Puffin Book Club at school. I wonder how many people's first FF books came from that promotion.
My school really pushed FF. At one point they did a thing where they put references up on a window and you could make a choice, and then you'd have wait until they put the responses to your choices up to see what happens. I got eaten by a giant lizard. I was already playing FF by that point so it wasn't compelling. A group of kids also did a comedy FF play. Even though we clearly had interests in common, I didn't really know those kids. I should have made more effort to get on with them. But even then, I'd figured out people are just the worst.
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Post by pessimeister on Jan 26, 2023 6:31:21 GMT
My best friend and I found two copies of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain on a bookshelf in our primary school classroom in 1989. The cover art had us spellbound and intrigued. We each took a copy home to try it out, then arrived at school the following day wide eyed as if we'd discovered a portal to a new dimension. After talking feverishly about our incredible experiences, we kept reading until we completed it and so established a Fighting Fantasy friendship. I'd read his books and he'd read mine. I still have my original copy of that first book to this day, earnestly nicked from the bookshelf. Its pages are well worn, falling out everywhere no doubt due to my intrepid failed attempts to map the Maze of Zagor.
After this in the same year for my 11th Birthday, I bought Citadel of Chaos, Deathtrap Dungeon and Masks of Mayhem.
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