Seminal ‘make your own entertainment’-reinventing ‘single-player roleplaying gamebook’ by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, attracting the attention of a million bandwagon-conscious schoolboys, and the ire of a million minor politicians and BBC Local News reporters. With the aid of just dice, a pencil and some pages that a pencil could never write on properly, you too could dodge Orcs, Dragons and The Maze Of Zagor in the hope of discovering the titular Wizard and his not-at-all-ZX-Spectrum-version-of-The-Hobbit-inspired multi-lock secured treasure chest. All good clean fun despite the tabloid rumours.
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David Bowie – Five Years
Saturday, 21.20, BBC2Been a shitty week for deaths, one of the saddest being Trevor Bolder of the Spiders of Mars, which adds extra poignancy to this big new documentary. In it they’re going to take five turning points in the career of Dave Bowie of The Dave Bowie Band, and though we don’t think he’s interviewed for it, seemingly everyone who’s ever worked with him is and there are loads of rare clips.
I’ve still got this book, along with The Citadel of Chaos and several others. Occasionally I’ll get one out and have a go – I have never succeeded in getting to the end. I tend to cheat in the fights. My two sons think I’m completely sad and have never shared my enthusiasm (I guess it just doesn’t have the same allure as the X-box). We put a lot of books in a car boot sale recently and my husband couldn’t understand why I insisted on saving all my Steve Jackson books. Aw… what does he know?? He had a deprived childhood…..
I still have mostly first editions of the inital 25 or so books. One even signed by Jackson and Livingstone.