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- subscriber, on 10/12/2007, -17/+68If you think Choose Your Own Adventures are cool, digg here.
- SwornPacifist, on 10/12/2007, -16/+59If you think Subscriber is comment-karma whoring, digg here. ;-)
- RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21If this was Slashdot there would already be 6 jokes about All Your Choices Are Belong To Us, 3 Simpsons quotes, a couple of people asking how many rods to the hogshead would these books get, and finally the obligatory "But do they run Linux?"
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18and something about the Adventure Chooses You, in Soviet Russia...
- gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Ha! I loved those things... nice way to do the article!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7article was a bit skimpy.
- datagod, on 10/12/2007, -3/+91. Choose your adventure.
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3. Profit! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Lone wolf and Greystar for the win!! Didn't care much for the others (choose your own adventure, endless quest, etc.)
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"but seriously there are a lot of wired articles on here"
Maybe because digg is a tech news link site and Wired happens to be a tech news site and is therefore linked to by digg? - so1omon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Good thing Joe Dever, the author of the Lone Wolf and Grey Star books, has let them all be republished online at http://www.projectaon.org/. Found it a few years ago, and have worked my way back through the series a couple of times since then. Brought back so many memories, and they're still great.
- devilish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5And don't forget ... I, for one, welcome our Choose your own Adventure Overlords
(yeah, I know, that falls under Simpson quotes but I had to type it) - Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I remember reading these in elementary school. I remember there was one book I always died in.
- twertyto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Lone Wolf and Grey Star!!! Wow the memories. Those were great books to read as a child.
Time Machine was decent too. - rezza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I loved these books when I was a kid.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@RandomSkratch
Choose Your Own Adventure is back! In Pog form! - daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Everyone here should get a subscription to Wired, I got mine weeks ago with this story inside!
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lone Wolf was great. Actually being able to die pretty violent and gruesome deaths in a choose your own adventure book was fairly unique (I think). Plus the RPG type features.
- veloscaper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ditto, Time Machine.
- Sagarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Deadwood City and Your Code Name is Jonah seemed to have lots of ways to die.
- gukid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I loved how the Choose your own Adventure genre "advanced" in technology over the years. The Steve Jackson Fighting Fantasy novels were fantastic! The other day I was thinking of trying to build a web interface for that type of adventure, and then users could create their own stories with saveable characters and inventories. Maybe even manually inputing the Fighting Fantasy books.
- charlesnorbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They are also coming out with a Choose Your Own Adventure movie with William H. Macy, Frankie Munitz based on The Abominable Snowman. DVD playable animation. h
http://leanforwardmedia.com/lean_forward_media_about_us_Press%202.htm - D4V1S, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4ya know, i'm just going to start submitting all of wired's articles to digg so I can make it to the front page more often.
go ahead and undigg this....but seriously there are a lot of wired articles on here - Battlecry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's funny, I just went to the bookstore last week and looked for these books on a whim (to no avail). When they're in stores again, I'll be sure to pick them up. It's been 20 years since I've read one :)
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They have that - it's called the 'angle' button your remote.
Enjoy! - Strongoloid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The funny thing about Choose Your Own Adventures is that usually if you chose the safer sounding way, like climbing up a tree, you end up dying, and if you choose to jump off the cliff to save yourself you mysteriously end up surviving and can go on.
I always used to keep my finger in the page so if I accidentally died, I would go back instantly, cause I hate dying. - superdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hehehe, thanks to tabbed browsing I'll *win* in no time.
- adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those were the first books that I read as a child. In fact, as silly as it may sound, I learned English by reading those books. I wish that I still had them so that I could pass them forward to my nephews.
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know - I hear they are even re-publishing "The Lord of the Rings" books and there is even rumours of a movie coming out. Those books are so old it's pretty silly.
- ubiquityxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I still have my original CYOA books from back in the day. Classic material.
When I was a wee one I'd ride my bike out to the local kids book store in Irvine, rush home, and dive into reading book after book. Great fun.
Now if they'd just put em all on a DVD with browsing capabilities. That's would be a 21st century update. - veloscaper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yup, Deathtrap Dungeon was my first fighting fantasy book and never went back to choose your own adventure books. Eventually progress to large books like Hobbit, LOTR etc. Now just textbooks is all I have time for.... ;(
- RegisteredUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So how many of you peeked ahead a few pages and chose the path that didn't get you killed? :-)
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check the library - My kid just found an old one and is reading through it. His approach is a bit different - he starts at a random page...
- FatMagic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yah I definitely love these books when I was a kid. Used to goto the library and take out a couple of these books. They were sweet!
Although they are really nostalgic, I bet if you picked one up now you'd probably realize "Yep it was better when I was a kid"... Just seems to be how it works when you "grow up" :-) - saska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You must lead a sheltered porn DVD life if you are still waiting for them.
- scriptkiddie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1amazon books link : http://snipurl.com/r9ep
- solidcube, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just don't turn to page 42 and you'll be fine.
(If you're not familiar with CYOA, you may not remember that page 42 was the death page in many of the books...) - funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man, I really:
- Liked those books (thumbs up)
- Hated those books (thumbs down) - geminem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh i love these books. my favorites are the ones written by Edward Packer.
- DSunstrum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just loved these when I was in middle school - I remember waiting for the book fair to order all the available D&D titles - (pre dice and pencil version books) - there were a few other fantasy titles as well with excellent art and fair writing. As well it cannot go without saying that post Indiana Jones - there were several Indie titles as well. Excellent marketing then and now will propel these books back into kids hands.
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those books were so cool. Nice article :)
- jabby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Society has advanced sufficiently in the 25+ years since CYOA books came out that makes a rebirth of them pretty silly. I loved these books, but I also loved Dr. J vs. Larry Bird PC basketball.
- urnotsofunny, on 12/23/2008, -0/+0If you think a youtube choose your own adventure would be cool, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyBWXiGj768 - dakkon2399, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This reminds of the old Dungeons & Dragons solo adventures. Oh how I miss the old days.
- KJay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember reading Goosebumps version of Choose Your Own Adventure when I was a kid. I really sucked at them, I almost always died. Hmmm, in retrospect it was very similar to my gaming adventures...
- phlavor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah these were my favorites. They actually had dice rolls printed on the bottom of the pages so you could just close your eyes and open to a random page instead of having to carry dice. Awesome.
I think about these books all the time. Good to know another generation will enjoy them. Except if they ignore them with jaded apathy. - CrackedTech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1These books were awesome, I will definatley be picking them up "for my son". :)
- gannit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I loved those books as a kid but no-one else I know had heard of them. So this article is proof I didn't make it up!!!
- DrMatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is GREAT! I still have some of my original Choose Your Own Adventure books that I read to my kids.
- Razz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Brings back memories! ... I loved that 'Through the Black Hole' choose yor own adventure I read when I was 11...
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