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- noun Plural form of
gamebook .
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Examples
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Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson were in the mix as well.
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I tried comics, gamebooks, board games, and later poems and plays.
Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, discusses his life and his books 2010
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For more interesting connections between wargaming and RPGs, Demian Katz has a fantastic and comprehensive article "Gamebook History" on gamebooks "choose your own adventure" etc. - it has a section on how gamebooks were used from 1976 on as an early way of implementing solo play for RPG systems.
War Games Through the Ages Torill 2006
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I'm a sucker for old "Fighting Fantasy" gamebooks, and was more than a little surprised to find them considering they're pretty hard to find.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2004
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Good thing I did, cause it was Lone Wolf gamebooks I read, and I went on to collect nearly the entire set minus one.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2002
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In 1982 he co-wrote The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with Steve Jackson, the first in the Fighting Fantasy series of interactive gamebooks with sales in excess of 16 million copies in 25 languages.
Site Home Stu4rt 2011
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"Packard was more of the writer," Demian Katz, the archivist behind a massive online gamebooks catalog, says.
Slate Magazine Grady Hendrix 2011
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- Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson, prolific co-writers of a number of RPG gamebooks, recently spoke to Bit-Tech about one of their most ambitious and, ultimately, unsuccessful projects: An MMORPG commissioned by Eidos in the late 90s.
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- Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson, prolific co-writers of a number of RPG gamebooks, recently spoke to Bit-Tech about one of their most ambitious and, ultimately, unsuccessful projects: An MMORPG commissioned by Eidos in the late 90s.
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I've even discovered the world of paperback gamebooks (including stuff like Lone Wolf, Fighting Fantasy, and Sagard), which are basically one player role playing games that act a lot like CYOA style books except you use dice and make decisions based on what weapons and spells your character has amassed.
Branded in the 80s! 2010
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