Still have a ton of these in my home library. Even as an old guy… I LOVE THEM!
Hell yea, I also kept a shorter series called Amazing Stories. Those were dark.
I remember reading these with like 3 fingers trying to hold my last few choices just in case they turned out badly.
I was really surprised that this didn’t become a huge thing for touchscreen phones. It seems like the format would fit well.
There are some things – Choice of Games does multiple-choice games. Often open-source Twine-based games are out there, but I feel like the primary target of Twine is really the desktop. There are some individual games. Lone Wolf, a series of gamebooks, was ported and made free. Some other stuff out there. Just thought that it’d be a game genre that would map well to the touchscreen, but I didn’t really see it taking off.
lol i had this exact book when i was in 1st grade. i must have had dozens of choose your own adventure
we had assigned reading times for homework and none of the teachers would allow these because they’re not “real books” (or some bullshit). i’ll bet any teacher today would bust a nut if as many of their students even cracked one of these open, let alone read it
My first intro to save scumming. I’d have my fingers on 4 different pages trying to get a good ending by changing my choices.
God i loved those books.
