Choose Your Own Adventure Books!!!!

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THESE WERE SO AWESOME!!!

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I always cheated.

― kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, I used to try to write my own CYOA books when I was a kid. Needless to say they were literary monstrosities of the lowest form.

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oh yeah cheating!! I ran out of fingers to try to jam in the different paths/pages. I started using paper clips in the end :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Fighting Fantasy > CYAB

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to hand in a story for a fiction workshop in a week, and I was actually thinking about doing a choose your own adventure thing for it, just because my classmates would hate it and the professor would probably love it. Should I do it?

― kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Search:

Inside UFO 54-40
Hyperspace
Space Patrol
Supercomputer
You Are a Shark
Terror in Australia

I hope I find a box of these at a yard sale someday and get them all!

I wrote my own too! I thought this was the most innovative literature ever when I was like 8. So much fun. They beat a lot of the adventure computer games from the time in that you could read them on the bus!

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gamebooks.org/cyoa_sw.htm

^ WOW. This website is GREAT

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Secret of the Ninja!!

Ha, I remember You are a Shark (aka the Young Person's Guide to Buddhism?) too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i have space patrol in my room right now! I have a few knock-off crappy ones too though. "Pick-a-path" ones and whatever.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.spaceshipnofuture.org/pix/fhblog/yads_small.jpg

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

OMFG BEST IMAGE EVER

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 11 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

These ar always on Ebay, usually in big lots!

My faves were By Balloon to the Sahara, Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey, The Mystery of Chimney Rock, The Race Forever, and UFO 54-50

fave author: Edward Packard

― Aaron A., Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

you're hardcore!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah I wrote CYOA's in Logo on my Apple IIc (xp)

― Aaron A., Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

fortunate hazel - you just made my day. (still laughing...!!!)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Celesteville's "R.A. Montgomery" is the greatest song ever written in honor of a CYOA author.

― ...in bed. (Chris Piuma), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a couple of of these that I am going to sell this spring/summer.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

You should auction them on ILX, obv.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I think I will!!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I really need to find Hyperspace again. EASILY the trippiest one ever. It had a big effect on me.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah cheating!! I ran out of fingers to try to jam in the different paths/pages. I started using paper clips in the end :)

I never understood why going back is considered "cheating", are you supposed to just throw the book out once you die?

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

best books ever. i wrote edward packer a letter telling him how brilliant i thought he was, but received no reply. heartbreaking.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

excellent. there aren't many opportunities for me to get laughs from that picture.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The trick is to read it at a Fall show.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.spiketv.com/shows/series/star_trek_tng/leadPhoto_380x200.jpg

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus Christ, the scary thing is I was thinking about that episode earlier today (I'm guessing because of the surprisingly Trek-obsessed acquiantance at the Sparks show last night).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

We're such dorks :(

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked the one about flying a space ship into a black hole. That was super duper hotness. Also, anything involving NINJAS.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 April 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

SPACE VAMPIRE.

Well, I actually remember checking that one out of the library and thinking it was pretty bad. But still, SPACE VAMPIRE.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 April 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oh we have space vampire!!

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 12 April 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 12 April 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

You speak in riddles, sahib.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 April 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

check out www.chooseyourownny.com

― Sengai, Monday, 12 April 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my dear God!

While nobody was looking, an out-of-control Karen O has made a pass at the terminally ill child and is offering him beer- and a lapdance!

If you intervene to save Sammy, click here

If you decide to stay out of it, click here

While engaged in a heated debate with the Strokes on the merits of styling wax versus gel for hard-to-manage hair, you look over and...

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to read them straight through from front to back, because I couldn't be bothered flipping to find the right place.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I never knew what Choose Your Own Adventure was, I guess I was too old .. But I had an autographed picture of Gary Coleman, and on the back it had his favorite color (black) food (pizza) astrological sign (Sagittarius - the best!) and favorite book (Choose Your Own Adventure, Model Railroader Magazine.)

Love and Respect,
-Gary Coleman
xoxoxo

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 12 April 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked Fighting Fantasy for a while, which is a bit like CYOA but with more dragons and not really as good. I had some that were signed by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 12 April 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i ONLY read FF books - nothing else seemed to come half as close. did i use the dice? did i fuck

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 April 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone else read the ADVENTURES OF LONE WOLF series? You were this crazy magical warrior dude who kicked all sorts of ass. Also a spin off series, GREY STAR THE WIZARD.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i had "Wizards, Warriors & You"

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a couple of Indiana Jones CYOA-stylee books, they were pretty awesome. Lots of Yetis.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I had the indiana jones one as well. It was a dracula themed one. I really enjoyed it, but was obsessed by getting 2 this page, which it turned was impossible 2 get 2.

that annoyed me.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

what was the D&D version of this? Endless Quest or something?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I read ADVENTURES OF LONE WOLF Ian Johnson!!!!! Oh man, I had that shit at sleepaway camp. YEAAA

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to hand in a story for a fiction workshop in a week, and I was actually thinking about doing a choose your own adventure thing for it

it's called hypertext, see Shelly Jackson's "Patchwork Girl," it's all very Brown MFA circa 1994 and kind of played out these days. But maybe no-one remembers! Do it anyway. If it has dragons and shit in it it will be more fun.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

In grade three, we always had to write stories and I wrote a lot of CYOAs. I must have had very large handwriting, because I remember they spanned many pages.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Bring on the DVDs

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Even though you were born in the seventies, do you

FONDLY REMEMBER THOSE CYOA BOOKS FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE GOING BACK TO WORK

GO AHEAD AND BUY THE DVD ANYWAY.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

haha

This is pretty sweet though.
I love all the cashing-in on us born-in-the-70s popculture kids as we begin (or continue, or imagine?) having our own kids and all the cool things we'll get for them and won't it be neat how we'll bond over stuff. And yes, that'll happen some of the time, but then they're just going to love other, probably crappy, things anyway that we totally don't understand. CIRCLE OF LIFE ETC

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mania/images/book/nab3p.jpg

I read this!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 14 June 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://jezebel.com/5342799/why-choosing-your-own-adventure-can-really-pay-off

― just sayin, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

I've spent the last three days reading a batch of them. They hold up! Best: The Mystery of Echo Lodge, Treasure Diver, Space Vampire and The Mystery of the Highland Crest.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:42 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

Does anyone remember a knockoff series of these that had a silver human alien looking creature on the cover?

― calstars, Saturday, 14 November 2015 23:56 (ten years ago)

obligatory http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1qbk5BBNd1qz9uw2o1_500.jpg

― brimstead, Sunday, 15 November 2015 00:30 (ten years ago)

eight years pass...

https://i.imgur.com/mYCXPLl.png

― calstars, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 21:19 (two years ago)

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