FIGHTING FOR FANTASY

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The Fighting Fantasy Revival

The Goal

The benefits associated with the once hugely popular Fighting Fantasy Game Book series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, are numerous and profound. For many children (and no few adults)the books inspired, and continue to inspire, heroism, imagination, and intelligent thinking. They took the reader to places were his decisions were so crucial, that he often risked death if a bad choice was made. They also gave the reader chances to display great benevolence wherever possible, whilst giving death to those to whom death was timely. The series gave the reader a chance to experience himself as someone larger than life, and as a consequence these imaginings reflected positively on his ordinary life, making his own character stonger in the mundane world. For these and many other reasons not listed, it is my intention to promote a revival of the Fighting Fantasy books, for those like myself who were sadly dissapointed by the abrupt end of the series, to give today's youth a chance to experience what was, and to give a poke in the eye to those that ended an era of great imagination, because it ceased to make them as rich as it once did. And of course to finish off my own collection...and to continue the work which was so rudely interupted.

Trial of Champions

And this is how I shall go about it. I, Cam De Medici, with the assistance of my Computer In Chief Wrattman, and any other die hard FF fans whom I happen to come across, will design a computer programme version of my favourite FF game book, Trial of Champions.The purpose for this is to make the the text available (with many added extras)and friendlyto today's computer geeks. The ultimate goal would be to make the entire series (1-59) available on computer format, and make so much money that I can afford to buy publishing rights to the series, and produce the books themselves for anyone who prefers books to computers, or would just like to own both.