CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

It probably predates archive.org, unfortunately.

I remember one about going on an 18-30 holiday, by the comedy double act that the "double-take brothers" were a take-off of on Harry Enfield. (they used to do kids "What to do in the holidays" shows, where they'd walk around going "oh there's nothing to do" and walk into a sports centre where everyone would be playing Badminton sort of thing.) Them.

The ones I actually remember reading were Rings of Kether (some horrible loops in that one), House of Hell, Citadel of Chaos, and one of the Sorcery books which i remember being massive and I could barely get through the first section climbing a cliff, or something.

Bizarro coincidence time... I was just thinking about Grailquest 2 days ago and googled JH Brennan to see if he'd done anything else since then. I loved those books!

My fave CYOA was The Mystery Of Chimney Rock with the creepy cat curse.

I had a later Fighting Fantasy book called Creature Of Havoc which seemed to be impossible to solve, like they'd made a mistake when they printed it or something. I'm sure it wasn't but I got completely fed up with it, after going through the whole maze cheating constantly I still couldn't find a way out to the rest of the book.

I probably have the first 20 FF books, but could never really be bothered to play any of them properly; I just loved the pictures, and the beasties, and the worlds - so obviously I bought "Out of the Pit", the bestiary, and "Titan", the book on the whole FF world.

House of Hell was a good one

that was bloody vicious. IIRC there was some deal with a cupboard/ante-room under the stairs, and you could either be in the real one or one that looked like the real one. very sinister, too; wasn't it set in the present day, unlike any of the rest?

there was a futuristic one where you were driving down a road; number 13 in the series, i think, but i'm not going to check right now. it was bloody brilliant. you could do the whole thing, then die right at the end from a rat scratch you sustained ages before.

You're welcome! I'm happy I wasn't the only kid obsessed with these. (It seems that there were even other kids in the SAME TOWN - shocker!)

I felt like kind of an idiot yesterday when, about an hour after starting the thread, I looked at one of the bookshelves of kid's books in my house and spotted two CYOA books. I don't think my son has looked at them yet, though.