Choose Your Own Adventure – Most Likely You’ll Die(flowingdata.com)
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Choose Your Own Adventure – Most Likely You’ll Die
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Can someone please dig its name? Coming from different country, I hadn't been exposed to such kind of books at all.
Fighting Fantasy (very vivid, huge fantasy world)
or
Interplanetary Spy (a classic for the most silly ways to die, like getting trapped in a prison bubble on the outside of a ship for the rest of your life...).
or
Interplanetary Spy (a classic for the most silly ways to die, like getting trapped in a prison bubble on the outside of a ship for the rest of your life...).
When I was 7 I read a choose your own adventure where you had to try to get to Utopia. I read through it 4 times without success, so I flipped the pages to find the picture of Utopia in the middle. Scanning through page by page, I realized there was no way to get there. Fuckers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40
Edit: Just saw that this enraged and educated other kids just the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40
Edit: Just saw that this enraged and educated other kids just the same.
As a child, I was mystified by this CYOA, where I once reached an lavishly favorable ending and on further readings was unable to determine how to get to it again... Great hack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40#Plot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_UFO_54-40#Plot
I remember using all of my fingers to "cheat" and do a forward-path seek.
In life, too, most choices lead to death.
If you find a series of decisions that DON'T ultimately lead to death, please share it with us.
Kurzweil has some theories about this...
He also takes a staggering amount of pills despite the latest science: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/842
Life is a bitch after all.
Unless the choice is to live forever?
I would always fold the corners down so I could "undo" if I ended up dying. This usually got confusing after a while..
Now there is a complete waste of time that I can really dig! Very cool. Brings back lots of memories.
Reminds me of the Lone Wolf series. In case anyone is interested, most of the series is available to download/read (play?) in browser:
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books
A choose your own adventure book for adults:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/06710159...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/06710159...
Two especially interesting nodes (95, 91).
On one you either win or you die on the next page. On the other you win no matter what.
On one you either win or you die on the next page. On the other you win no matter what.
This always struck me as a much better way to implement a CYOA-style book: An implicit acknowledgement that you would just go back and try again if you made a wrong turn.