Fantastic Fights

American game designer Steve Jackson, cursed from birth with the same name as English Fighting Fantasy creator Steve Jackson, wrote Scorpion Swamp, the first entry in the series not to be written by either of the creators of Fighting Fantasy. Will a fresh approach provide a welcome change of pace or will messing with the formula lead to chaos? Listen along to find out.

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A full playthrough of the Doctor Who: Decide Your Own Destiny book featuring the tenth doctor and Martha.

HJDoom invites you to join him in a truly epic playthrough of Ian Livingstone's Island of the Lizard King the 1984 advnture gamebook from the Fighting Fantasy series.

It's bonus episode time again as I reveal my first and significantly less successful playthrough of Deathtrap Dungeon. Enjoy me sucking very hard at this most challenging of gamebooks.

HJDoom is back with another classic Fighting Fantasy playthrough. This time he takes on the terrifying labyrinth of horror and sudden death that is the infamous Deathtrap Dungeon by Ian Livingstone. Will he succeed where thousands have failed? Find out by listening.

We’re taking an urban turn this episode as we embark on the quest to defeat an evil creature with a very silly name. Along the way we’ll get our pockets picked, nick a selection of broaches, tangle with pirates, and have one of the all time classic fantasy roleplaying encounters as we battle giant rats in the sewers beneath Port Blacksand. Is this the greatest setting in all of Fighting Fantasy? Possibly. Will I record the first ever legitimate win? It’s very unlikely but never say never.

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In which our less than intrepid hero boldly goes where he went once before in the late 1980s and plays through Steve Jackson's Starship Traveller.

As lockdown eases here in the UK I’ve been making sure I get plenty of vitamin D by taking a lengthy stroll through the Forest of Doom, the very first Fighting Fantasy book I ever played as a child. Along the way we’ll behave impolitely towards an APE-MAN, rescue an ungrateful BARBARIAN and make the usual number of stupid or very stupid decisions as we try and find a magical dwarven warhammer in the mysterious and spooky forest. Will we make it through the trials and tribulations of the first Fighting Fantasy book set in the great outdoors? There’s only one way to find out.