{"id":5575,"date":"2021-08-07T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T02:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2022-06-04T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T19:40:15","slug":"fighting-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5575","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fighting_Fantasy\" target=\"_blank\">Fighting Fantasy<\/a> book created in 1982 by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. I still have a good collection of them, but my first and favorite had to be Deathtrap Dungeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-13gvM3A3iE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PLqI5hx_Pli_XitxDd_lCxLUHmjYDgc_RW\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/iclorox\/featured\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/iclorox\/featured\" target=\"_blank\">ChrisC has a nice Youtube channel<\/a> with a few good playthroughs of some of my favorite adventure books.   He does a good job on his walkthroughs and is a nice, calming listen. Honestly, I don&#8217;t know why more Twitch streamers don&#8217;t read old adventure books like this and let people vote on the next choice. Perhaps there&#8217;s an idea there&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51nt1HuUNqL.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Deathtrap Dungeon: Livingstone, Ian: 9780440917175: Amazon.com: Books\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the topic. My first introduction to the books was as a middle schooler and I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I checked out this white-cover Dell version of Deathtrap Dungeon. I soon found the City of Thieves, Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and many others. Before the internet, one had to visit many libraries to find more of them. There is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fightingfantasy.fandom.com\/wiki\/Fighting_Fantasy_Wiki_-_Titannica\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fightingfantasy.fandom.com\/wiki\/Fighting_Fantasy_Wiki_-_Titannica\" target=\"_blank\">even a great fan site<\/a> that has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fightingfantasy.fandom.com\/wiki\/Deathtrap_Dungeon_(book)\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fightingfantasy.fandom.com\/wiki\/Deathtrap_Dungeon_(book)\" target=\"_blank\">lots of details about each book<\/a> &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fightingfantasy.fandom.com\/wiki\/Deathtrap_Dungeon_(book)#Errors\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fightingfantasy.fandom.com\/wiki\/Deathtrap_Dungeon_(book)#Errors\" target=\"_blank\">including interesting errors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They did a reprint series a few years back, but that has ended as well. The books can still be had on ebay, or if you&#8217;re interested in a more professional production, Eddie Marston was hired to do an interactive video series that&#8217;s had much higher production values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SoqPbnm58k4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of the Fighting Fantasy book created in 1982 by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. I still have a good collection of them, but my first and favorite had to be Deathtrap Dungeon. ChrisC has a nice Youtube channel with a few good playthroughs of some of my favorite adventure books. He does a good job on his walkthroughs and is a nice, calming listen. Honestly, I don&#8217;t know why more Twitch streamers don&#8217;t read old adventure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5575\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookreviews","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1rV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6671,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions\/6671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}