Choose Your Own Adventure – Most Likely You’ll Die

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by kqr2 • 17 years ago

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teilo• 17 years ago

Now there is a complete waste of time that I can really dig! Very cool. Brings back lots of memories.

WilliamLP• 17 years ago

In life, too, most choices lead to death.

biohacker422• 17 years ago

If you find a series of decisions that DON'T ultimately lead to death, please share it with us.

Devilboy• 17 years ago

Kurzweil has some theories about this...

redherring• 17 years ago

Life is a bitch after all.

ovi256• 17 years ago

And then you die.

zandorg2• 17 years ago

Unless the choice is to live forever?

zach• 17 years ago

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

nfriedly• 17 years ago

I would always fold the corners down so I could "undo" if I ended up dying. This usually got confusing after a while..

wallflower• 17 years ago

I remember using all of my fingers to "cheat" and do a forward-path seek.

witten• 17 years ago

There was at least one CYOA "competitor" series of books in which there was only a single ending in a book. And if you got to that ending, you won. Punishment for making a wrong choice involved simply being sent back to a page you had already seen. This was done in such a way that it made sense within the plot (such as going back to jail).

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.

listic• 17 years ago

Can someone please dig its name? Coming from different country, I hadn't been exposed to such kind of books at all.

zandorg2• 17 years ago

Fighting Fantasy (very vivid, huge fantasy world)

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...).

kingkawn2• 17 years ago

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.

ZeroGravitas• 17 years ago

A choose your own adventure book for adults:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/06710159...

jknupp• 17 years ago

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.

unperson• 17 years ago

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

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