"Choose Your Own Adventure" books that never quite made it

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Jer: May 23, 2003; nba balla/entrapenour

I don't know about you, but when I was younger, Choose Your Own Adventure books were among my favorites. These books would attempt to get the reader involved by giving them choices along the path of the story; at the end of reading several pages, you'd be presented with a choice, and would flip to a specified page depending on what path you chose to follow. Pretty good stuff. Here's an example cover in case you've never seen one before:

This thread, however, is about the many Choose Your Own Adventure books that tragically didn't make the cut. :(

Source material is available here, and the font (Revue) for the newer covers is here (thanks to fuckingtest for identifying it).

Jer fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Apr 1, 2005

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Slybo: Mar 6, 2005

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Risky: May 18, 2003

Great so far but I sadly lack photoshop.

This thread actually reminded me of how morbid some of those books were.
I remember reading mountain survival in 4th grade and some of the endings were you die were quite grisly in detail.

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Agronox: Feb 4, 2005

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Risky came out of the closet to say:
Great so far but I sadly lack photoshop. :(

This thread actually reminded me of how morbid some of those books were.
I remember reading mountain survival in 4th grade and some of the endings were you die were quite grisly in detail.

Mountain Survival was my favorite one.

Anyone know what the name of the font is on these books?

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DikFaic: Dec 31, 2004

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Aquamarie: Jul 22, 2004; do not swim without knowing jeez

meh.

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fuckingtest: Mar 31, 2001; Just evolving, you know?
Right Here, Right Now.

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art_gibroni came out of the closet to say:

Mountain Survival was my favorite one.

Anyone know what the name of the font is on these books?

The newer versions look like "Revue".

Yep...Revue.ttf

# ? Mar 31, 2005 22:40

Justin Godscock: Oct 12, 2004; Listen here, funnyman!

Edit: OK, I don't have the font so I had to make do.

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concerned mom: Apr 22, 2003; by Lowtax; Grimey Drawer

Took me about three hours to do the shading on the upper-lip.

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# ? Mar 31, 2005 22:49

Syvalion: Mar 19, 2005; You're all so precious

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Risky came out of the closet to say:
Great so far but I sadly lack photoshop. :(

This thread actually reminded me of how morbid some of those books were.
I remember reading mountain survival in 4th grade and some of the endings were you die were quite grisly in detail.

If I told you there was a Yahoo! fetish group for Choose Your Own Adventure deaths, would you believe me?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chooseyourowndeath/

I always wanted a thing called TUNA SASHIMI.

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MacManus: Dec 5, 2004; And shepards we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee.

Didn't even have to change the title :cool:

RIP Stiletto Null 1986-2007

# ? Mar 31, 2005 22:53

CaptDuck: Nov 27, 2002

"Journey to the Year 3000" was the best choose your own adventure book. Time travel, plus interplanetary travel, plus Earth being ruled by a cruel dictator. How can you lose?

And if you've read the one about the black hole, do not press button 2. Do not press 2 for the love of god :(

# ? Mar 31, 2005 23:00

Lowtax: Nov 16, 1999; by Skyl3lazer

This thread has a crapload of potential, so I'm stickying it for the Tuesday Goldmine!

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The Ace: Oct 28, 2003; Always got an ace up my sleeve

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[url]http://img191.exs.cx/img191/2571/cyao4mg.th.jpg[/URL]
meh.

Ha, I remeber this being the only good book in the school library, I'd read it every time they sent us in for manditory reading time. I always tried for the napolean bonapart ending.

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Slybo: Mar 6, 2005

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JethroMcB: Jan 23, 2004; We're normal now.
We love your family.

At first I thought I found a cover with potential, but I don't think it's possible to come up with a better title than this book already has.

JethroMcB fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Mar 31, 2005

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Artemisia: Jun 27, 2002; Fetish

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Slybo came out of the closet to say:
"Zeus the God of Pedophilia"

Maybe this is off topic, but I really really like how Ron Wing drew Zeus's face.

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D C: Jun 20, 2004; 1-800-HOTLINEBLING
1-800-HOTLINEBLING
1-800-HOTLINEBLING

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spec|ter: Feb 11, 2004; singing in the rain

I'm not sure if I like the specific title, but I like the idea. Suggestions?

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rivetz: Sep 22, 2000; Soiled Meat

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spec|ter came out of the closet to say:
I'm not sure if I like the specific title, but I like the idea. Suggestions? :)

http://img170.exs.cx/img170/401/billytripsballs6wd.jpg

Yeah, a lot of these have that hallucinatory feeling:

Alternate interpretation:

# ? Mar 31, 2005 23:32

Why cookie Rocket: Dec 2, 2003; Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

Jer-- great idea. This is one of the freshest "gently caress around with a cover" ideas in a long time. I wish I was better with photoshop so I could help. Kudos!

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concerned mom: Apr 22, 2003; by Lowtax; Grimey Drawer

A Crappy one:

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Meatball-Sub: Oct 10, 2004; by OMGWTFBBQ

hope someone liked it.

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Cuddlebottom: Feb 17, 2004; Butt dance.

Edit: Yes, this was an actual choose-your-own-adventure style book. Found it on Amazon.

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Meme Emulator: Oct 4, 2000

Ah I loved these books.

I remember one where you are shipped off to a new amusement park to help test it out, but everything goes haywire. I decided to try and stay out of trouble by hanging out in the hotel, and what happens? I electrocute myself in the bathtub.

Poor kids, they can't ever seem to keep from dying.

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Aatrek: Jul 19, 2004; by Fistgrrl

I wish I could convert photos to line drawings better.

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Penrain: Sep 12, 2004; I only killed you for the karma

This book scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

edit: sorry for gigantic png :downs:

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Gimmick: Jan 12, 2004

this has Terri Schaivo written all over it...

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Batsarse: Dec 20, 2002

I really need to sleep...

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Meatball-Sub: Oct 10, 2004; by OMGWTFBBQ

Here's a second one.

Edit: Jer, your on quite a roll lately.

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TheBoohi: Jan 26, 2005; Suffer not the witch to live

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Jmerz came out of the closet to say:
Ah I loved these books.

I remember one where you are shipped off to a new amusement park to help test it out, but everything goes haywire. I decided to try and stay out of trouble by hanging out in the hotel, and what happens? I electrocute myself in the bathtub.

Poor kids, they can't ever seem to keep from dying.

was that a goosebumps book? they did some choose your own adventures, and i seem to remember that one. maybe im just making it up though.

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Mama Tried: Jun 19, 2004; by Ozma

Great thread idea.

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Also Named Bort: Dec 13, 2004; Ask me about my superpowered excess cerebral matter.

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CaptDuck came out of the closet to say:
"Journey to the Year 3000" was the best choose your own adventure book. Time travel, plus interplanetary travel, plus Earth being ruled by a cruel dictator. How can you lose?

And if you've read the one about the black hole, do not press button 2. Do not press 2 for the love of god :(

What's up Journey to the Year 3000 buddy? :) That book pwned.

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Jagershot: Jun 7, 2004; RIP Mike V, 1989-2007. Have fun mounting Bear Bryant up in heaven.

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spec|ter came out of the closet to say:
Billy trips balls

Holy gently caress dude, I giggled my rear end off when I saw this.

Work on the font a little (darker yellow?) and I'll definitely print this one off to hang in my office, right next to Dark Side of the Crunk.

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rocksicle: Sep 25, 2004; by Lowtax

He just wants to eat!

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Trustworthy: Dec 28, 2004; with catte-like thread
upon our prey we steal

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guvnor: Aug 21, 2002; It's 1973. Nearly dinner time. I'm 'aving 'oops.

beaten (though mine's not any better)

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Justin Godscock: Oct 12, 2004; Listen here, funnyman!

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TheBoohi came out of the closet to say:

was that a goosebumps book? they did some choose your own adventures, and i seem to remember that one. maybe im just making it up though.

RL Stine did make some Goosebumps CYOAs, the first one was the theme park one mentioned earlier. He also made some non-Goosebumps CYOA, I only got one of those back in my childhood and it sucked (something about mummies).

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Batsarse: Dec 20, 2002

One more before bed.

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rivetz: Sep 22, 2000; Soiled Meat

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