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8 unusual facts about Choose Your Own Adventure


Accolade's Comics

Game play involves multiple adventures in two arenas: panels of a comic book page where dialogue and actions are selected for Steve that may or may not determine what will happen on the next panel (similar to the Choose Your Own Adventure book format); and traditional scrolling action boards where Steve is a moving character doing the physical task necessary (e.g. swimming, jumping, shooting) to advance through the stage.

Bishōjo game

The basic characteristics of bishojo games resemble those of Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Bishōjo games are a uniquely Japanese phenomenon: they have virtually no equivalent in the Western video game industries, but are similar to Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Food Truckin'

"Chorizo Your Own Adventure Burger," a play on the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books in which readers get to pick between two or more scenarios in a story.

Frank Bolle

Frank Bolle has done artwork for several American children's works, including some Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Ralph Reese

Also during the 1980s, Reese illustrated more than a dozen titles in Bantam Books' Choose Your Own Adventure series.

The Squared Circle

The Rise Of a Legend Adventure Series was also released on January 1, 2010, and is a solo adventure path that uses a format similar to the Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Waitsfield, Vermont

Vermont Crossroads Press published "The Adventures of You Series", which later became the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's books by Bantam Books.


Date with Destiny Adventure

The Date with Destiny Adventure series comprises two short novels of interactive fiction published by Quirk Books in 2003 that parodied the Choose Your Own Adventure series.

Louise Munro Foley

After she finished her degree at California State University in 1976, Foley divorced and turned to full-time writing, firstly for the Twistaplot series and from 1983, for Choose Your Own Adventure.

Richard Brightfield

He wrote a number of Choose Your Own Adventure books, and was the first author to establish himself within that series after its founders Edward Packard and R.A. Montgomery.

Togglethis

Founded in 1996 by Paul Maya and Marc Singer, togglethis merged the concepts of MOO/MUD and Choose Your Own Adventure to create some of the earliest, consumer-facing graphic avatars on the internet.


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Louise Munro Foley

Foley was only the fourth author after Edward Packard, R.A. Montgomery and Richard Brightfield to permanently establish within the Choose Your Own Adventure series.