Saturday 29 May 2021

Just Ask For South By South East And You Shall Receive

Over three years ago, I first wrote about the long-missing 1991 CITV Diamond Brothers series, and its total obscurity to the point I voiced a theory I had held for many years before starting this blog: the series never actually existed and was actually some sort of elaborate hoax.

Since then, I've managed to establish its existence with pages from the Radio Times, a thorough second-hand account from someone who watched it, a promotional poster, and the sleeve for a Spanish VHS release. But even the briefest of actual footage from the production has escaped us.

Until now.

Sunday 2 May 2021

Broken Gamebooks #19: Return to Firetop Mountain


The 50th book in the Fighting Fantasy series, the centerpiece of the range's 10th anniversary celebrations, a sequel to the very first book in the series -- and originally intended to be the last book of all in the series, but the special attention given to the range for these various milestones caused sales to spike and it carried on in its original form for another three years.

But that is not all Return to Firetop Mountain is known for.