Saturday was great -- we got a new DVD player, I bought some ridiculously priced (yet delicious) steaks and other dinner stuff from Whole Foods for dinner Saturday night, Julie gave me some great gifts, and it was very stress-free.
Oh, and I finally finished Lucifer's Hammer.
HELL
I'd bought myself a Discworld novel, then sat down to read it only to find it was the last one I'd read.
I forgot to save my work in Animal Crossing, causing me to miss a day on the Lighthouse Mission, as well as enduring a visit from Mr. Resetti.
I also have items to deliver to people who no longer live in my town, as well as a present in my inventory that I can't click on to open or get rid of.
I made a point to get the post office before work --- wah WAH! It's parsidents' day. posted by dwinn at 4:08 PM
Sunday, February 08, 2004
Fighting Fantasy
When I was I a lonely and hermit-like kid, I went through books very quickly. At that time, cheapo paperbacks only cost two bucks or so a piece, so I'd usually have enough allowence to get one a week or so.
My favorites were the Fighting Fantasy books. They were the closest I could get to any kind of gaming by myself -- they combined the format of Choose-Your-Own Adventure with actual attributes, skills and the like. Often they were based in a swords-and-sorcery universe, but there were books in space, superhero worlds, after-the-apocalypse, and the like. The guys who put it all together were Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson (*not* the Gurps/Munchkin guy, although in a stroke of genius they got him to write one of the books too) who together had founded Games Workshop.
Puffin Books (children's line of Penguin) produced them -- they made about two dozen that sold here in the US and 59 total (based out of England) before that division killed the series.
Having moved out of my folks' place, I was dismayed to only be able to find maybe eight or so of my collection (all of the US-produced books) -- I have no idea where the rest went, whether I'd loaned them out, or they were thrown out, or if they're hiding in the old house somewhere.
When we went to England back in 1999, we stopped in a bookstore where I was able to find two beat-up old paperbacks of the first two books in the series (that I already had, but these were the UK printings). Since then, my collection has an honoured spot on my bookself.
I found out today that Wizard Books / Icon Books in the UK has relaunched the series, but only with UK printings -- if I get my druthers I'll make a large order from Amazon UK -- but I'm happy overall not so much from a "I must recreate my collection" perspective but just happy that they've been resurrected.
