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Falcon
Dec 29, 2020 15:26:23 GMT
Post by Ed on Dec 29, 2020 15:26:23 GMT
Has anyone here played the FALCON gamebook series ?
The prices on ebay are sky - high !
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Falcon
Dec 29, 2020 16:36:37 GMT
Post by a moderator on Dec 29, 2020 16:36:37 GMT
I've owned the lot since the 1980s, and played them all several times. Once each on my blog, though some attempts got much further than others.
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Falcon
Dec 29, 2020 17:27:20 GMT
Post by dragonwarrior8 on Dec 29, 2020 17:27:20 GMT
I picked up books 1-4 on ebay about 2 years ago and they werent too bad, around 50 GBP - $70 USD or so for the lot. Unfortunately the prices on these things only seem to ever go up. That being said, Book 1 - The Renegade Lord, was reprinted in 2015 and I believe is available on Amazon. I think it was the only one that was reprinted but at least you can try it to see if youd want to continue with the series.
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kieran
Baron
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Falcon
Dec 29, 2020 17:34:11 GMT
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Post by kieran on Dec 29, 2020 17:34:11 GMT
I bought the series a few years ago and only book 6 was a bit dear but even then nothing like the price it's going for these days! Not sure why it's suddenly surged.
The series is a great concept but for some reason I can never really get into it.
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Falcon
Dec 30, 2020 0:09:26 GMT
Post by vastariner on Dec 30, 2020 0:09:26 GMT
Really good gamebooks, they tend to be fairly logical as well in that there are not that many grotesquely unfair insta-deaths, yet are also fiendishly difficult.
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Falcon
Dec 30, 2020 15:49:21 GMT
Post by Ed on Dec 30, 2020 15:49:21 GMT
I do remember seeing the covers in WARLOCK magazine back in the 80's.
Maybe there are less copies available now on the market - hence the surge in price.
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Post by CharlesX on Oct 14, 2022 21:12:24 GMT
I bought the series a few years ago and only book 6 was a bit dear but even then nothing like the price it's going for these days! Not sure why it's suddenly surged. The series is a great concept but for some reason I can never really get into it. I felt similar (I read one or two, but never cover-to-cover). I wanted to like Falcon, and it probably is worthy of liking, but never got into it. The writing is high standard, the concept original and interesting, and the difficulty about where it should be. Something about sci-fi gamebooks doesn't seem to work well when dice are used extensively. If you want the proper ending for any Falcon gamebook they are as linear as Livingstone as his worst, only without the fantasy monsters and spells - and sci-fi isn't exactly the same, with apologies to Arthur C. Clarke for claiming "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". IIRC they had some tough puzzles as well which were around the same level as FF's Tower Of Destruction or Deathmoor.
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roidhun
Wanderer
Ironic, self-deprecating nerd and geek extraordinnaire.
Posts: 78
Favourite Gamebook Series: The Legends of Skyfall (Yes, really!)
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Falcon
Aug 16, 2023 18:38:40 GMT
Post by roidhun on Aug 16, 2023 18:38:40 GMT
Always thought Falcon was great. The illustrations by Geoff Senior probably contributed to that.
Never got why the humanoid alien Siriuns all had Pseudo-Russian/Pseudo-Slavic names, though.
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Post by a moderator on Aug 16, 2023 23:47:16 GMT
If you want the proper ending for any Falcon gamebook they are as linear as Livingstone as his worst, only without the fantasy monsters and spells That's a massive exaggeration, and a sweeping statement you should have known better than to make, given that I read one or two, but never cover-to-cover There are sequences where you have to stick very closely to the 'true path', but most if not all of the books offer significantly more wiggle-room than Ian Livingstone did from Trial to Return.
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