Fighting Fantasy

 

I remember as a kid being introduced to a new style of book by my Big brother who came home from boarding school one weekend with "The Citadel of Chaos" by Steve Jackson I was already into Dungeons and Dragons so he knew I would love it. I quickly bought "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain" and the "Forest of Doom" from "Forever People" . The non linear approach of the books mirrored way the computer programs moved to different subroutines and in those day we were taking our first programing steps in "basic".

Other successful games Steve Jackson produced were "Car Wars" and "The Illuminati" card game.

In 1990 following a raid by the American Secret Service on the offices of Steve Jackson Games The raid led to the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A law suit was filed, with Steve Jackson Games ultimately winning in Court.

Years later when I started this blog and began linking one post to another I was reminded of the way the fighting fantasy books linked together.