Slate ’s been reminiscing about the venerableChoose Your Own Adventure book seriesand it ’s quite the read ! Unfortunately , there ’s only a single ending to this post , but that does n’t entail it ’s not an interesting one . Turn the page .
The end to this post , you see , is a link to that Slate article , where you ’ll be able to learn all about the beginnings of the Choose Your Own Adventure series and how it place the foundation for interactive adventure in other area of interactive amusement , like the microcomputer ( Zork ) .
opt Your Own Adventure books ceased publication in 1998 . Packard and Montgomery had a falling out and no are no longer on speaking terms , but each continues to fly the interactive - fiction masthead . In 2000 , they retrieve the right of first publication for their respective titles . Packard took his to Simon & Schuster where he ’s developing them into full - bumble apps under the name U - Ventures , while Montgomery pick up the rights to use the Choose Your Own escapade name , and he and several of his authors have start ChooseCo , a company that ’s reprint the honest-to-goodness record book and bring out raw ones .
I was a Lone Wolf guy rope myself , although I certainly take my fair portion of CYOA . Should I ruin my parents ’ bonce reckon for my old copy OR should I go on writing today for Gizmodo , sans pants ? YOU settle . [ slating ]
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