What were those old books with choices called?

branie2

Choose your own adventure

Thargor

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IIRC it's "The Horror of High Ridge".

Thats it thanks, I got such rush of nostalgia when I saw that pic of the 3 kids getting stabbed, apparently that was an abrupt "Ghostly knives appear and bury themselves in your backs" ending

Seems that was a bit of a famous one, it got banned in schools etc for being too violent with graphic images.

NewbridgeIR

This was the best (also my first)

Ponster

Thargor wrote: »

Thats it thanks, I got such rush of nostalgia when I saw that pic of the 3 kids getting stabbed, apparently that was an abrupt "Ghostly knives appear and bury themselves in your backs" ending

Just spotted this thread and dug up my own copy. On my first go around I ended up on the "ghostly knives" death. Unsure if I'd leave my child read them at the same age that I did!

Ponster

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

This was the best (also my first)

I had that too. I think that you had to role dice and determine a Stamina and Luck score so it was a very basic RPG-type read.

tommyboy2222

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

LOL Did ye keep your fingers stuck in the the page where you made your choice so you could go back if you were killed ??

I did !

There was a clip in the Simpsons of Homer doing this. I can't find it now.

ShooterSF

Tin man games made a few FF books into highly rated polished apps recently if anyone misses that fix

goose2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebook is a very good history. They don't seem to have existed much outside the Anglosphere, except for France and (for some reason) Bulgaria.

Trotters

One problemm with those books was, if you made notes in pencil as you went along, of the dice roll etc, then it made the book less usueable afterwards because of the little scribbles in the margin.
I remember making those spinny dice things home-made, a cardboard hexagon on a match stick, to use if we didnt have the proper dice to roll.
We even coloured in the pictures.

delly

Wow, just saw the thread at the top of the new posts and instant nostalgic moment. I recall the above picture too, but my most memorable book was a mad max type of adventure with gunned out armoured cars.

CelticRambler

bullets wrote: »

The actual "Choose your own adventure" Brand was crap
compared to the other books at the time.

My brother used to love them (our Mam probably got loads of them for him through the Weetabix offer) but I thought they were a bit meh (before that was a thing ) so I wrote one myself for him, complete with illustrations!

None of the originals have survived in the family, but my one was found by SonNo.1 in my brother's old bedroom and he got great mileage out of it! Still has it upstairs, to be passed on to someone else. :pac:

darkdubh

I remember 2000AD did this one with Slaine, I was hooked. It was originally a storyline spread over several issues but it was collected in a special edition circa late 80's which I had and spent hours playing .

The Princess Bride

I was going through old books of mine today and found one of the Choose your own adventure books.
From early 80s.

It's funny what you keep from your childhood.

marielille

I think some of the themes were a bit dark as I remember?