Choose Your Own Adveneture

Discussion in 'Fantasy Books' started by Trickster, Jan 18, 2006.

  1. Trickster

    Trickster Misfit

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    Anyone have these? How awesome were they. Make one decision and you get that ending and adventure, take the other choice and another adventure. As a kid that was so much fun although, it was a bitch remembering which ending i had read and not. This ended in a lot of dog eared pages.
     
  2. SithInHeels

    SithInHeels Banned

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    I used to have a ton of these when I was a kid. I think they truely helped form me into the roleplaying nerd that I am today. :p
     
  3. rg paddler

    rg paddler Senior Member

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    Yeah I used to read em in the bath and it was my rule not get out until I'd finished the adventure.
     
  4. Soulless||Chaos

    Soulless||Chaos SelfInducedExistence

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    Haha I loved those books when I was little. :D
     
  5. GreenBird

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    Yeh, I read them when I was younger. I particulary remember the Mountain Survival one- I always used to die lonely on the mountain in that one! haha.
     
  6. Rael

    Rael The Ruiner

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    I always used to get eaten by the monster in those
     
  7. Trickster

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    Just realised i spelled adventure with too many e's. How embarrassing :&

    On the bright side, i just found my old books with those dog earred pages. They have my name written on them in red crayon, god i feel old :)
     
  8. Xanxtuary

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    My brother had some of these kinds of novels. I always remember the "dungeons and dragons" kind of thing where I would be trapped in a dark cave with a huge beastie or spider and only a clove of mouldy garlic to fight with!!! With those ones, we had to write down what weapons or other items we found, how many nasties we had fought off, what our health score was, etc, to remember for the next session. All good fun!
     
  9. EMMAh

    EMMAh Senior Member

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    I've read a couple of those. They're a really good idea :)
     
  10. CrucifiedDreams

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    I'd forgotten all about those. Fun times! But I would always go back if I didn't like where my adventue was going. hehe.
     
  11. Xanxtuary

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    Another memory ... my brother used to have a similar role-playing book based on Back to the Future. The reader had to play the part of Marty and make the right choices to link everything up properly without messing up the past. Each page carried the story further on and at the bottom of the page would be several choices. These choices would take you to another section or page of the book, where you would find out the results of your choices. No dice throwing, no objects to collect, but for fans of the BTTF adventures, it was good fun.
     
  12. Chorlton

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    Those choose your own adventure books were fantastic... :)
    I'd pretty much forgotten them until i saw this thread.....so thankx..

    There was 2 authors in particular that scribed them...I can only remember Ian Livingstone I think his name was...any one remember the other? It's driving me mad now...lol
     
  13. UnspokenThings

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    the funny things with those, and it says alot about how dumb kids are. is that they go to the best winning paragraph first, and systematically work backwards so they dont die or what ever. by doing so they might as well just read a straight novel.
     

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