I used to love adventure gamebooks so it's a real treat to find this collectors lovingly maintained site which lists just about every one I ever had. The ones I remember best are the Choose Your Own Adventure books, TSRs Endless Quest series, Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy books (of course), and my personal favourites Be An Interplanatary Spy, of which I owned all but the last 2.
The Fighting Fantasy list has relatively few for some reason but the unofficial fightingfantasy.com has ridiculous amounts of information. No cover scans though for some reason.
Gamebooks are sort of a spiritual counterpart to interactive fiction so it's cool to see there was even a Zork series!
What strikes me as odd though is that they're all such obvious contenders for being given a new lease of life online, yet one of the few things I can find that comes close is Jerk Your Own Adventure.
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Or at least one. Cavern of Doom, number 3 in the Zork series, is available here.
Posted by Anonymous on 23 Mar 2002 at 05:32 PM
I loved these books, too. I used to try to write my own and it's harder than you would think.
Posted by Cat on 31 Mar 2002 at 02:04 AM