Post by stuh505 on Apr 21, 2005 23:11:46 GMT
when I was a kid, my parents would always drag me around to garage sales to buy stuff, because we didn't have a lot of money and maybe they thought they could appease my childish hunger for new toys that way
well, I always hated garage sales because they made my feel cheap...but there was one thing I got which I may have never found otherwise, which was a beat up old book of Lone Wolf, Flight from the Dark, missing the cover, filled with scribbles, and some very dirty stains on it that I think was poop.
I was 11 years old then and I played that book and loved it. when I discovered there were more of them, I started saving up my allowance to buy them...and I would regularly call my local bookstore to see if they had them in stock and try to order them
as the new books came out I bought them up, but I never managed to get them all...I was missing a few which bothered me because I wanted to get the true experience by playing them all in order from first to last.
Back then the internet was still pretty new and I couldn't go search around for things across the world that way. If I could have, there's no doubt I would have the whole series already.
I've just discovered that there's another 10 books in the series (putting the total up to about 30) which I never even knew of. Apparently, they weren't even published in the US.
Well, now I want to get them...fill in all the holes in the series...and play the whole damn thing from start to finish like I always wanted to!
I've been calling around and managed to get some pretty good deals on some of the missing books.
My collection as it stands:
1. Flight from the Dark
2. Fire on the Water
3. The Caverns of Kalte
4. The Chasm of Doom
5. Shadow on the Sand
6. The Kingdom's of Terror (in the mail)
7. Castle Death
8. The Jungle of Horrors
9. The Cauldron of Fear
10. The Dungeons of Torgar
11. The Prisoners of Time
12. The Masters of Darkness
13. The Plague Lords of Ruel
14. The Captives of Kaag (in the mail)
15. The Darke Crusade
16. The Legacy of Vashna
17. The Deathlord of Ixia
18. Dawn of the Dragons
19. Wolf's Bane (trade in progress)
20. The Curse of Naar (in the mail)
21. Voyage of the Moonstone (don't have)
22. The Buccaneers of Shadaki (trade in progress)
23. Midnight's Hero (don't have)
24. Rune War (don't have)
25. Trail of the Wolf (don't have)
26. The Fall of Blood Mountain (don't have)
27. Vampirium (don't have)
28. The Hunger of Sejanoz (don't have)
The ones in the mail are books I have never played...I hope that I can hold out on playing them until I have completed the series.
I'm almost ashamed to be spending this money on such small things, but...it makes me so happy to have things like this to hold on to
Someday, I have plans to make a commerical video game faithfully representing the entire series. We'll see
well, I always hated garage sales because they made my feel cheap...but there was one thing I got which I may have never found otherwise, which was a beat up old book of Lone Wolf, Flight from the Dark, missing the cover, filled with scribbles, and some very dirty stains on it that I think was poop.
I was 11 years old then and I played that book and loved it. when I discovered there were more of them, I started saving up my allowance to buy them...and I would regularly call my local bookstore to see if they had them in stock and try to order them
as the new books came out I bought them up, but I never managed to get them all...I was missing a few which bothered me because I wanted to get the true experience by playing them all in order from first to last.
Back then the internet was still pretty new and I couldn't go search around for things across the world that way. If I could have, there's no doubt I would have the whole series already.
I've just discovered that there's another 10 books in the series (putting the total up to about 30) which I never even knew of. Apparently, they weren't even published in the US.
Well, now I want to get them...fill in all the holes in the series...and play the whole damn thing from start to finish like I always wanted to!
I've been calling around and managed to get some pretty good deals on some of the missing books.
My collection as it stands:
1. Flight from the Dark
2. Fire on the Water
3. The Caverns of Kalte
4. The Chasm of Doom
5. Shadow on the Sand
6. The Kingdom's of Terror (in the mail)
7. Castle Death
8. The Jungle of Horrors
9. The Cauldron of Fear
10. The Dungeons of Torgar
11. The Prisoners of Time
12. The Masters of Darkness
13. The Plague Lords of Ruel
14. The Captives of Kaag (in the mail)
15. The Darke Crusade
16. The Legacy of Vashna
17. The Deathlord of Ixia
18. Dawn of the Dragons
19. Wolf's Bane (trade in progress)
20. The Curse of Naar (in the mail)
21. Voyage of the Moonstone (don't have)
22. The Buccaneers of Shadaki (trade in progress)
23. Midnight's Hero (don't have)
24. Rune War (don't have)
25. Trail of the Wolf (don't have)
26. The Fall of Blood Mountain (don't have)
27. Vampirium (don't have)
28. The Hunger of Sejanoz (don't have)
The ones in the mail are books I have never played...I hope that I can hold out on playing them until I have completed the series.
I'm almost ashamed to be spending this money on such small things, but...it makes me so happy to have things like this to hold on to
Someday, I have plans to make a commerical video game faithfully representing the entire series. We'll see