9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choose Your Own Adventure [pdf]

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😳 "When you realize you left your horse keys in the saloon." 🐴

(📷: "Deadwood City" by Edward Packard. Illustration by Paul Granger. Choose Your Own Adventure #8, 1978)

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🛸 We're going to need a bigger cave! 🙀

(📷: "The Cave of Time" by Edward Packard. Illustration by James Warhala. Choose Your Own Adventure #1, 1979; 26th Reprint, 1989)

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🏊‍♂️ “It doesn't take you long to reach the bottom when you land in only two feet of water." ⚰️

The End

(📷: "You Are a Genius" by Edward Packard. Illustration by Frank Bolle. Choose Your Own Adventure #95, 1989)

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🧠 OK, we get it... you're smart!🤓

(📷: "You Are a Genius" by Edward Packard. Illustration by Frank Bolle. Choose Your Own Adventure #95, 1989)

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The year was 1985. The software division of Bantam Books publishes the first of 2 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure computer adaptations, kicking it off with #EdwardPackard's "The Cave of Time" for the #AppleII and #Commodore64. Time to find an emulator!

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The naturally-formed underground chamber that started it all in 1979, the Cave of Time.

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