icemann on 30/3/2010 at 11:28
There were certainly some good books amongst them in the FF series.
Wonder why gamebooks died off. They were pretty damn awesome ingeneral to play, even if the "turn to the page/section that you think is the answer to the riddle" type puzzles used to piss me off.
gunsmoke on 31/3/2010 at 00:01
Anyone remember Choose Your Own Adventure books? Those were as far as I delved into the genre. I have fond memories of those books.
Melan on 31/3/2010 at 05:29
icemann: my guess is "computer games".
And it is appropriate how Ian Livingstone, one of the pair writing the books, became head honcho at Eidos.
Shadowcat on 31/3/2010 at 07:00
gunsmoke: The (
http://www.librarything.com/series/Twistaplot) Twist-a-plot books were the first game books I ever encountered, and I shunned the Choose Your Own Adventure books in favour of those (brand loyalty, apparently), until I spotted FF#3 "Forest of Doom" one day and didn't look back.
I only actually remembed owning a couple of those Twist-a-plots, but looking at those cover pictures I actually recognise six of that top row.
gunsmoke on 31/3/2010 at 09:24
Are those British? I have never seen them. Anyway, after some research, I remember owning those 5-book box sets from CYOA (the first 3). God, that cover to (
http://gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=333) Deadwood City (2nd from right) and (
http://gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=561) Mystery of Chimney Rock really took me back. Deadwood City was one of the first western books I read, and I read it until it was literally in pieces. Good memories.
twisty on 31/3/2010 at 11:13
Hah! I remember those -- I received 2 of those books as presents when I was very young: The Video Avenger (I've still got a copy of that); and something with 'Time' in the title but I don't recognise the cover that is shown for 'Time Raider' on the page that you have linked to.
'Choose your own adventure' games were the first game books that I ever played; I think that I was four years old at that stage. My two sisters got into them as well so we soon amassed a very healthy collection of games from that series.
The next game book that I got my hands on outside of the CYOA series was 'Find the Kirillian!', the first instalment of the Interplanetary Spies series. Regardless of my age at that time, I can remember feeling that this game series was very half-assed (It's amazing the things that you pick up when you are young, regardless of your age at the time).
Melan: Yes, I also wrote a few books. I started out writing them as a trilogy and successfully completed the first two instalments but only got through a small part of the final book. Although the books were terribly contrived, borrowing heavily from a number of popular game books, in retrospect I really wish that I completed the final book. The main issue was that my writing improved a great deal by the time that I got to writing the third book and I never found the inspiration to rewrite the first two episodes.
gunsmoke on 31/3/2010 at 12:15
Are there any Wild West themed books in that series?
Renzatic on 31/3/2010 at 17:12
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Anyone remember Choose Your Own Adventure books? Those were as far as I delved into the genre. I have fond memories of those books.
I'm sure everyone here has had a couple of good experiences with the old Choose Your Own Adventure books. I know I have. I used to grab 4 or 5 at a time from the school library and play through them all over the weekend.
