Oh dear
did anyone actually get through one of those?
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 1:03, 3 replies)

I clicked like
Because this reminded me of those choose your own adventure books.

Yes, I did complete many of them, including a strange one based in that zippideedodah zippideeday Disney film setting. Damn, that was disturbing.
(MrTeapot hasn't played with himself since, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 1:41, closed)

I have no idea what you are talking about
and this will still give me nightmares.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 4:03, closed)

The "Choose your own adventure" books were really big in the mid 1980s
They consisted of the reader as a child following the narrative for a page then being offered a choice. My favourite was the one where you're a servant in Guy of Gisbourne's castle at the time of Robin Hood and you have to make choices about whether or not to help Robin's schemes.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:42, closed)

Oh, I know what they were
It's just that the whole genre was incomprehensible to me.
I remember trying one and putting it down a few pages in because a lawnmower manual caught my eye.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:28, closed)

Hell yes
The Fighting Fantasy series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson - I found them good fun where I was a lad (around 2 months ago). I didn't have a lot of friends, oddly enough.
(McChinaman banned, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:47, closed)

Yes.
Solely by deciding I won every fight and keeping my place so I could turn back and make the other choice if I didn't like that one. I actually got to know the few we had well enough that I could play through them more or less 'perfectly', which, now that I remember, I don't want to.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:08, closed)