greenween 2,390 Report post Posted January 26, 2015 I have a box full of these and my daughter is loving them!! The D&D ones are the best! Anyone else have these or remember them? 3 Fire_In_The_Valley, Arenafoot and AlamoAtari reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fire_In_The_Valley 186 Report post Posted January 26, 2015 I don't remember those greenween, what are they? Just books that you choose your way through? 1 Arenafoot reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arenafoot 2,336 Report post Posted January 26, 2015 I don't remember those greenween, what are they? Just books that you choose your way through? Yes Fire......you start off reading the first page then at the bottom of the page there's a choice to be made. Whichever choice you choose, it directions you to a certain page number that continues the story and so on and so on. 5 RickR, greenween, RetroVideoGameNerd and 2 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadioPoultry 739 Report post Posted January 26, 2015 I read a lot of these as a kid. "The Forbidden Castle" was a particular favorite of mine. www.gamebooks.com has an exhaustive database of them and similar series. 2 greenween and Fire_In_The_Valley reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RetroVideoGameNerd 88 Report post Posted January 27, 2015 Yes Fire......you start off reading the first page then at the bottom of the page there's a choice to be made. Whichever choice you choose, it directions you to a certain page number that continues the story and so on and so on. *Looks at spaceman in Image* Hey, Samus! How'd you get so slim? :'D LOL 3 greenween, Fire_In_The_Valley and Arenafoot reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) *Looks at spaceman in Image* Hey, Samus! How'd you get so slim? :'D LOL Nice call! I have this one and never even noticed! Edited January 27, 2015 by greenween 2 Fire_In_The_Valley and Arenafoot reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fire_In_The_Valley 186 Report post Posted January 28, 2015 Those seem really cool, not sure how I missed out on these. They're just the perfect level of geekdom for me 1 greenween reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted January 29, 2015 hell, send me your address Fire, I'll hook you up with a couple!! 1 MaximumRD reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted January 29, 2015 This place is about sharing memories, good times! 2 Justin and MaximumRD reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadioPoultry 739 Report post Posted January 31, 2015 I picked these up about 15 years ago at Goodwill. They're CYOA-style books based (loosely, as far as I can tell) on the Zork text adventure games. I hadn't noticed before, but they're written by Steven Meretzky, who worked for Infocom. 1 greenween reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Justin 8,103 Report post Posted January 31, 2015 This place is about sharing memories, good times! That is so right on, Greenween! I'm glad you get that. 1 greenween reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RickR 14,533 Report post Posted February 1, 2015 Those are cool! I don't think I ever had any. What's the copyright date? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadioPoultry 739 Report post Posted February 1, 2015 Those are cool! I don't think I ever had any. What's the copyright date? If you mean the Zork books, #1-3 are copyrighted 1983 and #4 is 1984. (I have 1, 3, and 4.) 1 RickR reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted February 3, 2015 I have some duplicates! Maybe I should give them away! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted February 3, 2015 I also have some MAD paperbacks someone may want! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted February 3, 2015 Oh, hell! I got a pretzel!!! 3 RickR, Justin and Arenafoot reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Justin 8,103 Report post Posted February 8, 2015 Oh, hell! I got a pretzel!!! I saw that. Congratulations greenween, you're the first person on the site to do that. I wonder what happens next? 2 greenween and Arenafoot reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arcade Dude 44 192 Report post Posted April 4, 2015 Man, I had totally forgotten those awesome "CYOA" books! I recall one actually had you write in the isbn code on the spline (which every book has, sort of like a serial #), with a cool name for it (using "isbn" as it's acronym)! I need to add some of those to my collection, my kids would get a kick out of those, as well. 1 greenween reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leolinden 714 Report post Posted April 4, 2015 I loved Choose Your Own Adventures. My dad told me about them a few years ago and read all of them in my school library. MAD paperbacks? You mean like MAD Magazine? 2 greenween and Yo-Yo reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted April 15, 2015 Yes Leo, I have a box full of them. During the 70s and 80s Mad released a ton of paperbacks that were pretty much just greatest hits and compilations of a particular artist. Been collecting them since I was a kid. Very cool. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted April 15, 2015 Man, I had totally forgotten those awesome "CYOA" books! I recall one actually had you write in the isbn code on the spline (which every book has, sort of like a serial #), with a cool name for it (using "isbn" as it's acronym)! I need to add some of those to my collection, my kids would get a kick out of those, as well. I remember that one too!!! Can't remember which book it was but do remember having to use the isnb code for it!!! 1 Justin reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leolinden 714 Report post Posted April 16, 2015 That's cool Greenween. MAD is cool. I watch the Cartoon Network show and my friend has a book that has some of the "greatest hits" or something like that. 2 Justin and greenween reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greenween 2,390 Report post Posted April 20, 2015 I've had a subscription to Mad for 30 years!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leolinden 714 Report post Posted April 20, 2015 That's crazy greenween! It's awesome too! 1 greenween reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rowsdower70 4,513 Report post Posted May 4, 2015 I had a HUGE collection, and yes...the D&D ones were amazing! I remember making a CYOA game on my Vic-20 until it ran out of memory. 1 greenween reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
