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Rob Beschizza
Aug 18, 2025
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Last year I wrote about Joe Dever's Combat Heroes, the wild apogee of the 1980s gamebook boom. Whereas Choose Your Own Adventure offered branching paths and Fighting Fantasy introduced role-playing elements, Combat Heroes implemented grid-based free-movement dungeon crawlers. In books! For two players! A full-page illustration for every possible orienta…

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