Who here remembers the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series?

[PingSpike]

I used to write choose your own adventure programs in basic on the macs at school. IIRC, in mine all responses but one resulted in instant death.

 

[monk3y]

The Third Planet from Altair and Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? are 2 favorites that I distinctly remember.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Someone should make a 'Choose your own Adventure' thread.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: MathMan
I loved them, too.

Of course, I would always cheat-- find the happy ending and then try to work my way backwards.

Speaking of old classics-- who here remembers Encyclopedia Brown?

yes and yes!

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Wasnt one called the 'Cave of Doom' and another was 'Journey Under the Sea' 😕

Anyway, I cant recall the titles of the books, but I do remember liking them🙂

I used to love those books. The ones I owned I can still remember some of the choices and the bad results... Trip to jupiter or something?

Europa was afrozen ocean moon, Gaynemede was a bunch of snow drifts of methane and other stuff that they used for fuel, Io was a bunch of big volcanos that they used electrosomethings to turn the heat into electricity to power up the ship. (basically early on an evil bad guy sabotaged their mission and left them with little fuel, o2, power, and they had to use the moons to replenish all of that, basically proving their mission).

But damn, dont let TOD or whatever the robots name was loose on callisto to be converted by the evil robots there!... Alas poor TOD I knew him well!

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: vshah
those were amazing

also amazing were the Encyclopedia Brown series

I love encyclopedia brown series! I always thought I was cool when I could figure out the mystery 🙂

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
You enter the cave. To your left, you see a shadowy hallway, of which you are unable to see the end. Straight ahead, there is an elaborate door covered in ancient glyphs.


If you take the left passage, turn to page 23.
If you take door in front of you, turn to page 143.

You enter ATOT. To your left, you see Rossman neffing. Straight ahead, you see Nik threadcrapping.

If you join Rossman in neffing, click on P&N.
If you join Nik in threadcrapping, click on the red X.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: waggy
heh yeah i remember them. i would get them from the "scholostic book club" or whatever it was from school

ha ha, I remember them as well.

 

[Kroz]

They were cool books. But then I discovered computers.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
You enter the cave. To your left, you see a shadowy hallway, of which you are unable to see the end. Straight ahead, there is an elaborate door covered in ancient glyphs.


If you take the left passage, turn to page 23.
If you take door in front of you, turn to page 143.

You enter ATOT. To your left, you see Rossman neffing. Straight ahead, you see Nik threadcrapping.

If you join Rossman in neffing, click on P&N.
If you join Nik in threadcrapping, click on the red X.

I roll D20 to post "WRONG FORUM!!!"

 

[puffff]

i remember back in grade school we had to read a book that was 75 pages long and stand up in front of class and talk about it. some kid chose a pick your own adventure book, when it was his turn to present, the teacher asked how many endings did he read. only one, he said. i think he failed.

 

[BillGates]

I hated those books.

 

[LtPage1]

Those were some good 20minute fun times.

 

[speg]

I loved those books, my favourite was one from a different series though. Something about being stuck in a desert with strange beings? /sigh

 

[pontifex]

i used to love those books. i remember one was called Lone Wolf or something. it was like a mini D&D adventure. it had a spot in the front or back where you wrote down your HP, inventory, etc.

i probably have them around somewhere still. good times.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

I made a RANT thread in the "Choose your own adventure" theme just the other day