“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 can’t call it cheating – it’s taking a sneak peek.”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. Photograph: Ian LivingstoneHe is here today because the major children’s publisher Scholastic believes the time has come for Fighting Fantasy to have its day again. But he found he “couldn’t just use the old tricks” to write his Fighting Fantasy title. Photograph: David Hartley/RexBy 1995, “the world had had enough of Fighting Fantasy”.

Source: The Guardian April 04, 2018 11:15 UTC