Did anyone else read the "Choose Your Own Adventure" book series back in the early 80s? I used to love these books; I believe I had every book published in the series. At various points in the story, you had to decide which direction you wanted the characters to take... one would lead to a happy ending and the other would lead to tragedy! These books captured my imagination as a child and made me want to be a writer! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Wow... the Eighties!!! (http://www.swiftsite.com/80sdude)

<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1">[ July 02, 2001 12:19 PM: Message edited by: MDC ]</font>

I had a few of those....they were great!! Always a new story each time ya read it with the different avenues you could take <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> Think I might have one or two of 'em somewhere in the attic...<img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Oh I loved those books!!! I had a Jem Choose your own adventure book. I'm mad because i sold it at a yard sale a few years back....grrrrrr <img src="mad.gif" border="0">..... -Sarah &gt;^._.^&lt;

I loved those books! I couldn't get enough of them!

When I was a young budding young nerd these were about the greatest discovery of all time. It made me want to be a writer too (to write those kinds of books because aesthetically I felt I could do far far better with all the R-rated Sci_Fi movie classics and 80s media which always sets the standard), but my lackluster skill in writing could never keep up with my imagination <img src="frown.gif" border="0">
The next great discovery for me was the Lone Wolf choose your own adventures. These got me interested in Dungeons and Dragons, which got me interest in other RPGs (especially the TMNT one which I ALMOST got to play successfully with my respected older cousin). Damn I am still unsatisfied! No one would play these games with me :crying: Either the people my age were too stupid or the people old enough to appreciate and become excited by RPGs wouldn't risk my presence in their campaignes.
I learned recently that there were single player Dungeons and Dragons (the pen and paper game) Choose Your Own Adventure books, like 80 of them! Oh man, I could have enjoyed both mediums and benefited from the abyss of loneliness all genius must endure. Genius I say!

Oh Yes!
I loved those books!! I couldn't WAIT until a new one came out. I haven't thought about them in years! Those books were the first step into "role-playing" for me, which led naturally to D&D in time.

Good Topic!

Cool. I still have four of five of these left. My fave was about a vampire. Think I'll break them out and read them again.

I got into choose-your-own adventure books in third or fourth grade... (83-84) the kiddie versions, mostly. I wish I remember what they were about.

I played AD&D a little bit in high school, but I was never that serious about it. I took fencing lessons with a few of my friends, (an excellent way to meet swashbuckling men) and they played AD&D at our coach's house. I was intrigued, but could never memorize all of the rules. So I just heckled from the sidelines.

Right now my stress weapons of choice are freeform, play-by-email RPGs. They're a lot like playing make-believe as a kid, except without running around the yard pretending you're a horse.

*stands up* My name is Mary, and I'm a geek... *sits down* LOL

Mary C, what are play-by-email RPGs? That sounds like something I could get into.

I used to love those choose-your-own-adventure books too. Can't remember which ones I read.

I liked these books,too.But i hated some of the creatures in them.They were grotesque.


Imagine if the had choose your own adventure sex books. Hee Hee

Originally posted by djnage:
<STRONG>Mary C, what are play-by-email RPGs? That sounds like something I could get into.
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Oh Dear! I'm sorry, DJ, I didn't notice this reply before now! <img src="redface.gif" border="0">

Basically, they're free-form games where you control your own character and interact with others in story posts. Game play generally takes place on a mailing list. Yahoo! Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) seems to have the biggest directory of games, but you have to do a little hunting.

The games are sometimes based on established "worlds," like AD&D, X-Men, Sailor Moon, or books, and sometimes made up wholesale. If I weren't so busy with my two Pern games, I'd start an original fantasy/historical fiction game. Maybe someday, when my dragon fetish has worn off... oh, probably not, I've had a dragon fetish since I was 10 <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Thanks Mary, I'll check them out as soon as I can.

Chris

Originally posted by djnage:
<STRONG>Thanks Mary, I'll check them out as soon as I can.</STRONG>

Have fun! Beware of getting sucked in... they're awful time sinks, but quite relaxing as long as you're not running one. <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

I used to love these! My favourite was the Way of the Tiger Ninga series. I don't have them any more, but they were great! It really annoyed me though when in the final book of the series "Inferno" your character is actually killed off in the final showdown. (The same character you've carried throughout the entire series)

There were about 6 books in the series if I remember rightly.

Ohhhh yes. Very big in grade school in the mid-80s. Teachers didn't like them too much because they don't exactly lend themselves to book reports, but that's what we wanted to do them on. There was also Pick-a-Path by TSR as well as a number of other series whose titles I forget using the same premise. I wanted to invent "Choose Your Own Adventure TV" where one would flip between channels to make each choice, which had its own mini-movie until the next choice or end of the story.

In a box in the family basement I still have the first 20+ books of the Fighting Fantasy series put out by Puffin (that would take the series up to about 1987 or so, there were way more after that but my allowance just couldn't keep up).

I loved them, they were so much fun.

I have R.A. Montgomery's The Race Forever (which I bought in '83)--a book with 32 possible endings.

I loved these books and I had several, what they were about, I couldn't tell you. It was always thrilling to see where you were going to end up. These books were a more than a one-time read. Excellent type of stories. :thumb:

I still have four of them in the other room on a book case. Dusty, but they are there!

I had Choose Your Own Adventure books! I used to work my way through them carefully so that I would get to read all of the endings! I loved those books! My mom ended up selling most of them at one of our garage sales, but I still have a few of my favorites that I read all the time!
Abbie

I read a few and loved them. I even ended up making a flash game out of it! :D

Remember 'em!? I still have some of 'em. LOL!