Many, many moons ago these arcane items known as "gamebooks" were popular with the young. They were a means by which you could enjoy roleplaying on the go without the need for human intercession long before thinking box mechanisms became capable of doing the same. Now a resurgence of old stalwarts is arising. Fighting Fantasy has new editions out along with new books. Lone Wolf has revised "Flight From the Dark" to suck less compared to its more illustrious descendants and new books continue the saga of the "Grand Master" who has become Lone Wolf's go-fer now that he's a Supreme Master and way too old for this shit. More importantly multimedia projects are bringing these IP into the new millenium. Fighting Fantasy got quite a bum deal in that respect; Talisman of Death was released as a video game that is basically the original book digitized into a format intelligible to things that have wires.
Lone Wolf on the other hand....
PS: For those who cannot wait that long and want a fix now... http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books
Monday, September 12, 2011
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Initially I thought they made a movie out of lone wolf... The video is pretty cool! Suspense without the all too typical flood of blood, gore and violence.
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