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Reading is awesome, but sometimes the lack of interaction is boring. You want agency. You want choice. You want...
These books have been around since the late 70s/early 80s. The official series isn't being made anymore, but someone out there is probably still churning these puppies out. And of course, a lot of people jumped on the bandwagon.
And some very NSFW stuff as well, because no genre can withstand the prurient touch of the erotica brigade.
But the nerdiest of all?
You chose skills! You got weapons! It was like D&D except you could do it alone instead of begging your mom for a ride to a friend's house or a tiny store that smelled like, well, you times ten I guess.
So, SE++, tell me about your love of CYOA books. And if you are bored, check out the CYOA-style story that VanityPants and Traikan and I are writing.
These books have been around since the late 70s/early 80s. The official series isn't being made anymore, but someone out there is probably still churning these puppies out. And of course, a lot of people jumped on the bandwagon.
And some very NSFW stuff as well, because no genre can withstand the prurient touch of the erotica brigade.
But the nerdiest of all?
You chose skills! You got weapons! It was like D&D except you could do it alone instead of begging your mom for a ride to a friend's house or a tiny store that smelled like, well, you times ten I guess.
So, SE++, tell me about your love of CYOA books. And if you are bored, check out the CYOA-style story that VanityPants and Traikan and I are writing.
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you're not actually doing a CYOA?
in that case
>click back button
I loved the one where you get locked in a museum at night. So cool.
if you go to the LINK i posted, then you can vote or post suggestions in the comments
so it's more MSPA than CYOA i guess
but the best CHYOA is
and it always will be
Answer the question...
I'd recommend it to anyone that likes CYOA books.
the one that always scared me had an anatomy model that chased you down the stairs
and the door at the end was electrified
but I like the idea of them
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I do not think I ever got a "good ending" in CYOA books. Somehow I always ended up dead or trapped in some pit.
I am apparently not very good at adventures.
TIME TRAVEL + DINOSAURS, turn to page 133 and WIN
...then I read the two Lone Wolf books that my tiny-ass library carried about 30 times each.
http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/download.php
Once you get it running you can download the books you want and roll out. I pay with saves turned on because I'm a pussy.
it was always the wrong one, and then he double-crossed me
I've still got two of these on my bookcase.
They are awesome.
I hope he runs it on the forums someday
here it is
the terror of my youth
viewer beware
you're in for a scare
Why on earth did they let us read that stuff? That was some scary shit.
i had already gotten into stephen king books by that point
they taught me uncomfortable things about sexuality
it had a bunch of gemstones in it, you kept a tally of the number of facets for secret pages
you started shipwrecked on the foggy shore of an island
uhhhh i wish i could remember more
oh at one point there is a graveyard full of wights
if you drank it, it turned out to be poison and you died
if you didn't you failed the test to be a secret agent or something and you also died
there was no way to win
Like RPGs before I played RPGs.
Huh. Way more sexual imagery on that cover than I remember.
Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
edit: ninja'd you win this round...
well shit, I thought, let's find some art
my first run through, within three minutes, I had caught the crooks and found the mona lisa
it was not very thrilling
shit yeah i read this one
however my favorite was
i like how it says 'can be played' on the cover
as if somehow you were going to survive for more than three pages the first time you read it
which also can be played online
wouldnta known that if it hadn't been for someone on these here boards
god damn this and dinotopia was my childhood
Congratulations. How soon can you be in Paris?
I think we've found us a new Louvre guard.
I think I had four of them
Plus a couple of RL Stein CYOAs.
And the CYOA forum was where I jump started my forum career.
where the hell did that desert weasel come from
I think you may be my long lost twin
HA. I survived for FIVE pages.