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All fighting fantasy books6/29/2023 ![]() Once hugely popular, the Fighting Fantasy books – billed as “a thrilling fantasy adventure in which YOU are the hero” – launched in 1982 with Livingstone and Jackson’s The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. ![]() You can’t call it cheating – it’s taking a sneak peek.” “You used to see it on public transport everywhere,” says Livingstone, who with Steve Jackson dreamed up Fighting Fantasy back in the early 80s. ![]() ![]() You’d insert a finger into various sections of your Fighting Fantasy adventure game book in order to be able to return if, say, your choice to drink the “sparkling red liquid” and turn to section 98 turned out to be a bad one, or if attacking the Mirror Demon “from another dimensional plane” proved fatal. Ian Livingstone calls it the “five-fingered bookmark”: that grip known to children of the 80s and 90s. ![]()
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