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.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― John Justen, surrounded by frail, wispy people. (John Justen), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link