"Choose your own Adventure" book series

[waltsoph3]

You know one of my favorite book series i enjoyed growing up was the Choose your own Adventure series. I dont even rember how many there were but it was quite a a bunch. Sure theres books out there for just reading but how many do you know from back in the day where could you change the course and ending. I had a great laugh with some of them and full of fun.

If you've read some of these whitch is your favorite? Or if you can't rember that far..whats your favorite scenes from some of them? :)

[Shiroiyuki]

Not truly a 'book' per se, but Desslock turned me onto Interactive Fiction that is quite similiar to what you are talking about -- choosing your own adventure/outcome/etc.

:)

[tenshi_a]

I used to really love this kind of book, and I have loads of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, but they weren't my favourites; I liked a series called "Grailquest" the best. :) You always knew you were dead if you were told to go to chapter 14. :lol:

Here are all the other series I remember:

Fighing Fantasy
Sorcery!
Lone Wolf And Cub
Be An Interplanetary Spy Ultraheroes
Falcon
Terrors out of Time <-- these horror ones were pretty scary!
You can be the Stainless Steel Rat
an Indiana Jones spin-off Choose Your Own Adventure type book
a Zork spin-off Choose Your Own Adventure type book (by "S. Eric Meretzky")
An Asterix spin-off book that came with a special custom 6-sided dice
A Famous 5 spin-off book that came with a special custom 6-sided dice

er, I forget what else.

There was one that came in two parts (one warrior, one thief) and you and a friend were supposed to read them at the same time, and the story would progress in different ways depending on what your partner chose as well as your own decisions. :) I don't remember what it was called though. Good idea, though!

[Old Ape Face]

The only book I can remember like this was a skew book out of the Animorph series, back in the day.

[Leader Desslock]

You can be the Stainless Steel Rat
Must. Own.

[Haro!]

Lone Wolf And Cub


Dude, that sounds so awesome. I grew up watching it on PBS.

[waltsoph3]

you know it wasnt a choose your own adventure series book itself but one of my most favorites that i got a great laugh was this football book where your a coach thats trying to win a championship game. One part in the book theres a part where you need to improve the defense and your asked if you want to bring in this huge hulking person dubbed "the hatchet".
His record isnt exactly known to be for being sportsman like conduct.

Needless to say :lol: if you put him in a huge chaotic brawl happens during the play resulting with puting the coach in the hospital and losing the game.
Well those are the breaks i guess. Wish i rember the name of that book it was great one for footbal fans.

[tenshi_a]

Oh, sorry, I had my wires crossed. When I said "Lone Wolf and Cub" I really meant "Lone Wolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks))" and nobody else... completely different series.

BTW The Stainless Steel Rat one is pretty funny. Though you don't actually get to be the stainless steel rat... he's in it more of an adviser or something.

[Soluzar]

I remember the Lone Wolf books too. They were more like an RPG than the more simple "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, because they had equipment, stats, and battles. I also remember several other series like that such as Fighting Fantasy, Grail Quest... those were great.

[tenshi_a]

I found a website with a huge list of adventure gamebook series, and it lists how many endings there were, what kind of game system was in the book (if any), target age group, ISBNs, etc etc etc. :)

http://www.gamebooks.org/show_language.php?id=1

[goddessofanime]

I kinda remember reading one or two of these growing up. They were fun.

[Haro!]

Oh, sorry, I had my wires crossed. When I said "Lone Wolf and Cub" I really meant "Lone Wolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks))" and nobody else... completely different series.

I guess I feel better about that now, one less thing to hunt down and try to buy.

[Bernard_Monsha]

Lone Wolf And Cub


I would want this just to look at the choices

If you want to have sex with the prostitute in front of 40 men pointing swords at you turn to page 24

If you want to kill all the men with nagamaki pulled from Daigaro's baby cart and an opium pipe you borrowed from a trader turn to page 36

If you want to pretend to be normal for another chapter then cut everyone in half with your dotanuki and have copious blood spray and say something philosophical about the 6 paths and 4 lives. Turn to page 48

If you want to glare menacingly then jump at your enemies and turn them into long pork tartare turn to page 52.

[Victory]

I totally read the lone wolf series. Like 20 of them. I also liked the grailquest ones, they were funny. I forget what others I read. I should reread one to see how bad or good my taste was.

edit: http://www.gamebooks.org/show_category.php?id=78

uh oh
way too many of these look familiar
especially "sorcery" by steve jackson and the metamorphosis series
I must have been ten years old, but still it couldn't have been so bad I mean I was pretty popul...NERD ONE DAY NERD ALWAYS

[The Million Dollar Prons]

I only played one once.

I turned it to page 54 and I broke my neck on a rock when I fell off a tree trying to run away from the haunted mansion.

and then I did that "my finger is still on page 24 pz lube," but then I just wound up getting shot to death at page 87.

[waltsoph3]

I only played one once.

I turned it to page 54 and I broke my neck on a rock when I fell off a tree trying to run away from the haunted mansion.

and then I did that "my finger is still on page 24 pz lube," but then I just wound up getting shot to death at page 87.

Thats just the one thing i loved about these books. Anything was possable. I get a great laugh sometimes when i screw up and how they do you in.

It also almost reminds me of the classic NES game Shadowgate. 1 way to win...many many ways to die.
lol

[Jatz]

I always seemed to get killed too. I remember this Batman one where you had to get out of a phone booth trap set by the Joker. It was something like, if you hang up the phone you get blown up, if you try to smash the glass the Joker replaced it with something stronger, you break your hand and you die from acid. The way out was you unscrew a panel on the top. I died moments later.

Another where you're friends with a crazed scientist (à la Back to the Future) who rips a hole to another world.

Do you want to enter the rip?
No? The rip closes and you never see the professor again. The End.
Yes? You enter the rip and it closes behind you.
Now what?
Path one. You fall and break your neck.
Path two. You're killed by a strange creature.
Path three. You meet an indigenous tribesmen.
You give a friendly wave. Unfortunately this is considered an act of war and are slowly tortured to death. The correct answer is run away screaming like a ninny but you're going to die anyway so why bother.


WTF?! :blink:


I made up the options but the plot and the early deaths are true.

[Victory]

http://www.projectaon.org
^This site has all the lone wolf books! Online! For free!
I reread two books and three things have emerged

1) The books are really quick to finish.
2) The NPCs that accompany you suffer from redshirt syndrome. Badly.
3) Sommerswerd (sun sword you get in book 2) is overpowered.

[superplough]

I liked a series called "Grailquest" the best. :) You always knew you were dead if you were told to go to chapter 14. :lol:

I totally still have those :thumbsup: I used to cheat though, and make my own dice scores so I would win :D

and then I did that "my finger is still on page 24 pz lube,"
I used to cheat and do that too :D

[Jia]

Lone Wolf- I remember reading these when I was little...I really liked them. I remember another one about a car race or a great race.

[KabukiSaMuRaI]

I was never a big fan but I remember looking through. I would always use the "alternate ending" scenario just for fun. :)

[Scandiadream]

They were my favorites back when I was a teenager. And I even wrote an article about them sometime last year on my library's Teen Blog.