December 2006 Archive

Lone Wolf

Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstones Fighting Fantasy series started a publishing phenomenon. They weren’t the first ‘adventure gamebooks’ on the market - the Choose Your Own Adventure takes that dubious honour. But they did both raise the game and sell absolutely shedloads, creating demand for similar products. For those too young to remember the 80’s - it was perhaps similar to Nintendos Pokemon leading to to Bandai’s Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh - but with paperback books rather than playing cards and console games. …[more]

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