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In the United States in the early '80s some bookstores did indeed carry a few of the early FF gamebooks. I remember the very day in '83 when I was permitted to buy a single FF book (Forest of Doom).
I was enthralled by the gaming concepts contained therein (SKILL, STAMINA, LUCK, dice rolls, etc.), the strange, arresting, dramatic b/w artwork. The eerie, unsettling atmosphere of the story was also unlike anything I had encountered to that date. I assume that FF did not sell all too well because the latter books in the series were unknown to me until I began collecting them 4-5 years ago. We never got to see the full span of releases like the "green spines".
I grew up with Choose Your Own Adventure (my very first of these was Space and Beyond, acquired at a school "book fair" in 1980) -- the US's most successful line of gamebooks -- and even had one of the more obscure Endless Quest books published by TSR (Mountain of Mirrors). None of those lines had the mechanics of FF. Only in the early 2000's did I discover the wonderful Lone Wolf books (virtually unknown in the States, very sadly) which alone rival the thrill of Fighting Fantasy.
AFF was also unseen here. I bought all of the hardcopies just a year ago, and am now gathering up the PDFs.
Statistics: Posted by LordArioch — Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:12 pm
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