Fighting fantasy.... Books
Picked up my first one on a family outing to Bath. The Dead of Night. Scared my eight year old self silly in the car on the way home in the dark. Thank you Mr Jackson and Mr Livingstone.

Not exactly technology I know, but they've started to release them on the iPhone. Just won't be the same I'm afraid.
(Deskbound You insignificant speck of dust, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 18:52, 12 replies)

Can you still cheat on the iphone?
Just that I used to throw the dice until I got an agreeable outcome as I didn't want to have to start again.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 19:03, closed)

I never genuinely completed
Warlock of firetop mountain
(Littlesirjohn sprung up his head and so amazed them all., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 21:16, closed)

I loved those books!
I used to ignore the dice element completely because I didn't want the element of chance to get in the way of a cracking good read. Which was the more 'adult' one where you woke up as a beast and had to decipher a code to understand what humans were saying to you (and thus complete the book)?
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 19:06, closed)

#24
Creature of Havoc.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 2:37, closed)

'Creature of Havoc'
That was it. Definitely one of the tougher ones.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 14:58, closed)

Will the electronic ones
allow you to keep your finger in the old page so you can turn back to it quickly if you made a duff choice?
(lolwhites, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 19:42, closed)

Ha ha ha
I did both this and Galactic Yeti's cheat... Made them much more fun imho.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 20:37, closed)

You can't
Cheat on the iPhone versions (first four books so far)

They're done well and include all the old art work. But can't beat a dice, pencil and a big tablet rubber from Smiths!
(Deskbound You insignificant speck of dust, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 8:46, closed)

Ohhhh Deathtrap Dungeon...
Im 13 again and life is so simple. WH Smiths was brown and orange and Opal Fruits were still Opal Fruits. :D

Though I always prefered Ian Livingston to Steve Jackson.
(Beaverman Opulence, I has it., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 22:23, closed)

Somewhere in my library I have a signed copy of Trial of Champions.
Puffin Books ran a competition when ToC was published. First prize was a signed set of all (at the time) 21 books, with a few runners-up prizes of just Trial of Champions.

I got one of the runners-up prizes.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 2:38, closed)

Oh man
I used to love these.

Scorpion swamp, City of thieves, House of hell and Deathtrap dungeon. Loved 'em.

If you want to 'like this' then turn to page 259
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 22:29, closed)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fighting_Fantasy_gamebooks
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:03, closed)