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Wow, Choose Your Own Adventure books are violent.

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I read this one as a kid. Fed my earthquake awareness. :)

Death all around.

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Only one time did I make the right decisions to get to the good ending. I used to just go through piles of them and whenever I died, I just grabbed a new one.
 
I wish the Edward Packard ones got reprinted too, but I don't think any of his did. I also wish the artwork was the original art, but it's not. Still, good memories. :)
 
I used write these for fun.

Not that they compare to the real deal, but my nieces liked them

Probablt still have a few around, I should read them and laugh at myself.

I used to read some that had something to do with Lonewolf or wolf something. Fun stuff
 
I loved the Third planet from Altair. It had that super secret ending that had no branches that led to it.
 
shagg_187 said:
Oh wow! I used to have LOADS of these!

My fav was this one:

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Fucking amazing artwork/story :D Sometimes I cheated and read it backwards :lol
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OMG, this was the one I came in to post about!

I loved ALL the endings in this one! :D
 
shagg_187 said:
Oh wow! I used to have LOADS of these!

My fav was this one:

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Fucking amazing artwork/story :D Sometimes I cheated and read it backwards :lol
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How the hell can this vampire be still alive? The sun right behind him! :\
 
So I discovered the skeleton of the missing link. But then a snake bit me and I died, and some other guy found my skeleton years later.

I got bribed by some guys with diamonds, to throw the race. Then they followed me, killed me with a gun, and took the diamonds back.

I dedicated my life to helping skinny refugee people and never finished the race.

I found gold, quit the race, and retired rich and then started my own race series.

So not all the endings are totally bleak.
 
Wow, this brought back some memories. Specifically of one book, I think it was the only one of these we had.

But I can't remember the name!

All I can remember is that I think the title had something about 'caverns' in it. Anyone know what I'm thinking of?
 
Found it :o

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I didn't know they used the term 'role playing game' with these.. funny thing is, I tend not to like RPG videogames at all. But all I can remember is loving this book..I don't think I finished it, but I just loved the novelty of it, and the setting and everything. Wish I could find it again..
 
I remember owning a CYOA book where you won a trip to an amusement park that was just about to open. The deaths in that book were horrific. Even the first choice in the book could result in your death. You were given the option of going out or staying in your hotel room. If you stayed in, you eventually set up a video game system in the bathroom and took a bath while playing. You then pull the system in and electrocute yourself.

I was killed by collapsing rides, a murderer in the haunted house, and lost in the Sahara exhibit and died of dehydration. I never survived.
 
bjork said:
So I discovered the skeleton of the missing link. But then a snake bit me and I died, and some other guy found my skeleton years later.

I got bribed by some guys with diamonds, to throw the race. Then they followed me, killed me with a gun, and took the diamonds back.

I dedicated my life to helping skinny refugee people and never finished the race.

I found gold, quit the race, and retired rich and then started my own race series.

So not all the endings are totally bleak.
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:lol

Oh Bjork:|
 
DTJAAAAM said:
Loved the CYOA series, as well as this book:

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Hell yeah! I loved the CYOA series but really loved the D&D Endless Quest series. They had those great covers. Also the Time Machine series. I remember the one where you went back in time to the medieval days and one particular scenario had you cleaning your hands during dinner on the dogs fur underneath the table. For some reason that image never left me.

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BocoDragon said:
Yeah I remember some of them having very strange and bleak sci fi endings.
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oh god, yeah. just nonsense sci fi endings ending in your death or you being imprisoned forever by aliens using mind control or some shit. those were the best.
 
I had the Baba Yaga D&D book. Awesome read and loved how they worked in character creation into it.

As far as violence in these, as a kid I liked being scared, unnerved, tested by movies, comics, and books. There was hardly anything in these that I'd even flinched at. If anything the text didn't hold any meaning beyond an inch deep .
 
I used to read Goosebumps as a kid. I remember they had one of these. I *think* it was where you were following a brother and sister in their attempt to escape an amusement park which had all kinds of shit like cybernetic werewolves and such. In the end, you find out that you are both ROBOTS!!!!!!!
 
I love these things. Even though someone finally ended up posting one of the books, I have to go ahead and reiterate the awesomeness that is

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If you're looking for gruesome, horrible deaths, some of the worst imaginable are in Lone Wolf book 7, Castle Death, including having your brain eaten by a sentient psychic hand and starving to death over the period of weeks in the heart of a maze while an evil wizard watches and probably gets his jollies.

Also worth mentioning that all Lone Wolf books are playable free over at projectaon.org, including a program that will keep track of your stats and a random number generator that's a lot more fair than that random number table at the back of books. Because come on. You know you cheated.
 
I remember a spin-off series by the creator of CYOA called Escape from Tenopia that was more like a dungeon crawler--rather than choose a different action every page, you chose a direction to move, N/S/E/W, meeting people and solving puzzles to get the good ending. There was a map of the whole area you could find at some point. The one I remember was is this undersea kingdom where you were given gills at the start.
 
Damn it people, I thought bjork is back :'(

4th of July is still far away... he's also thinking of taking another bet as soon as he return, but this time, the price is a perma' ban.

Bjork if you're reading this, DON'T DO IT MAN!
 
octopusman said:
Can the fantastic four against one person really be considered "one on one"?
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If there is one piece of advice I can give a junior, it's don't bump a bjork thread. You get everyones hopes up that the ban is over, and then the reality crashes in.
 
adamsappel said:
If there is one piece of advice I can give a junior, it's don't bump a bjork thread. You get everyones hopes up that the ban is over, and then the reality crashes in.
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Free bjork! No justice, no peace.
 
Chris Interactive said:
God i loved those books when i was a kid. The only one i remember was a space adventure one. Although i'm sure that does not narrow it down any.
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The Third Planet from Altair is the space one I remember it fucked me up big time.
 
I had a dozen or so of these. The only one I can vaguely recall is the you are a shark one because I seem to think you start out as a person in that adventure. Lots of death.

I had the first couple give yourself goosebumps as well, in fact I might still have them somewhere.
 
These books were so great. I was obsessed with getting every ending, bookmarking the page every time I had to choose. :shudder: good times.
 
mrkapawutzis said:
Also the Time Machine series. I remember the one where you went back in time to the medieval days and one particular scenario had you cleaning your hands during dinner on the dogs fur underneath the table. For some reason that image never left me.
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:lol

I talked about Time Machine books earlier in this topic, I had that one and remember that passage as well. Learning that medieval people used dogs as napkins forever changed my perception of the animal :lol
 
Dammit, I thought Bjork got unbanned!

But yea, the Goosebump choose your own adventure books were amazing back in the day. One required me to keep an inventory. :lol :lol
 
I went to France as a kid, and I bought a French one that was about a spaceship. It had me roll dice and everything for the thing's shields, and lasers, and engineer, and all kinds of different things. You had a certain number of staff and you had to pick who went with you to the planets and so forth. My doctor was always dying.
 
Rlan said:
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I actually still have Brain Drain, the last book in that series, but the cover is completely missing, and I can't find it anywhere online to compare. I remember loving that, and one called Double Trouble or something like that.
 
I read one about the Titanic when I was younger, ended up taking a gamble at stealing some gold and ended up drowning. But the way they described it and had it all drawn out...I somehow managed to read to the very last word of that ending, then freak out, and never touch the book again. Now I've never read another choose your own adventure book since.
 
One of my favorite ones was this:

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The atmosphere was really creepy. It was even scary sometimes.

And I loved the Lonewolf books. I didn't go past the first series but I loved getting the "Sommerswerd" in the second book. That sword was, for a long time, THE Master Sword. :lol

Sometimes I would love to see these books reissued as ebooks or something "more" web-intuitive that would not let you cheat for example, because we all did, ain't we? :D
 
shagg_187 said:
Oh wow! I used to have LOADS of these!

My fav was this one:

cyoa071.jpg


Fucking amazing artwork/story :D Sometimes I cheated and read it backwards :lol
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I came in to post this, too. It was the first "big kid" CYOA book I read, and lord did it fuck me up. :lol

Before that, I'd been reading all of the junior ones (I was, what, 2nd grade? 3rd? I dunno), where you don't have death as a consequence. Then, suddenly, my new bff and I are getting fucking drained dry by a goddamn space vampire.
 
One of my favorites was a book in the CYOA style that had a guy in purple in the center, involved a submarine, kraken-like thing, and space. You had to enter the ISBN number to start reading. Awesome stuff.


I think it was called Space Pirates or something. Anyone have a list of all the knockoffs of CYOA?
 
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