Turn to 400 ... (blog)

Posted by Billiam Babble on Nov 03, 2010; 8:23pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Turn-to-400-blog-tp5703117.html

I'm on a bit of a Fighting Fantasy kick at the moment.

Turn to 400   http://turnto400.blogspot.com/   deserves a special mention.




There's currently only a handful of entries (don't forget to click "older posts")- devoted to early Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, but they've had me giggling all over the place.  Wonderfully inciteful and at times rather puerile , it definitely talks to the younger gamer in all of us.

Here's a couple of snippets...


Commentary on Forest of Doom

When the dying dwarf, Bigleg, hands over the Map of Darkwood Forest, Turn to 400 blog author, Murray, says what we're all thinking:




On Orcs in Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Firetop Mountain is kind of a weird environment. The area near the entrance is populated with ORCS and GOBLINS who are all either asleep or getting drunk. This is fairly typical of the media's negative stereotyping of such creatures. The orcs/goblins live in unadorned rooms that usually contain a straw pallet, a small box with mysterious contents, and nothing else (well, maybe a table in some cases). Passing through, you do not get the sense that they have many amenities, they have been poorly provided for and have little to do. Many are fairly clearly depressed (at least up until the moment that you murder them).

For reasons clearly explained, Murray is also obsessed with the number of skeletons there are in the Fighting Fantasy books, and insists on counting them.  Each book review is followed by a "Skeleton Report".  Why no-one else does this, I have no idea.  

The author of the Turn to 400 blog is clearly god amongst men, or is perhaps just a little unwell.
Either way blog-voyeurism here is compulsory.  

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