Steve TannerWrapped up the week with a vintage #ChooseYourOwnAdventure reading with coworkers for #StorytimeWithSteve.
Just in time for the Great Pumpkin to arrive, we had some fun at the ‘Haunted Halloween Party’! 🎃
This week we’re reading "Mountain Survival" during #StorytimeWithSteve, book #28 in the original #ChooseYourOwnAdventure series. Bonus is that I’m reading it from a special library edition, which makes it a hardcover! You just know the story is better because the cover won’t bend! 🙂
In honor of the Vuelta a España kicking off on Saturday, this week's #StorytimeWithSteve selection is "Superbike" - #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #124.
Written by Edward Packard in 1992, it only has 12 endings, but the cover has a kid riding a flying bicycle over some cows. C'mon, you want to know how he got into that situation, right?
#LaVuelta #Cycling #CYOA #Gamebooks #InteractiveFiction
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The #ChooseYourOwnAdventure book of choice for my weekly #StorytimeWithSteve at work is 1989's "Return of the Ninja" by Jay Leibold, book #92 in the original series. (More about my Storytime project: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/crisis-community-choose-your-own-adventure-year-storytime-tanner/).
While I have an original, this is one of the few that's been updated and reprinted by Chooseco as part of the new generation of #CYOAs, rereleased in 2019 (yes, you can buy a copy now: https://www.cyoa.com/products/return-of-the-ninja!)
Crisis, Community, & Choose Your Own Adventure: A Year of Storytime with Steve
Editor's Note 1/1/23: This retrospective was written in March 2021 to mark the 1-year anniversary of Storytime with Steve. Since that time, we've continued to read together, adventuring through a total of 240 books by the end of 2022.
This week's #StorytimeWithSteve book is "You Are a Genius" - a 1989 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure released as the 95th installment in the original series.
Picked this up this copy used and now I'm really curious about the writing on the cover. Any guesses as to what "KRAN" means? #CYOA #Gamebook #InteractiveFiction #Gamebooks
For #StorytimeWithSteve at work this week, giving Edward Packard's "Horror House" a scary read.
This 1993 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure appeared towards the end of the original run (book 140 of 185) - a time when the number of endings dropped considerably. There are only 8 in this book. At what point are you just writing a linear story with just a few page hops? Very glad the relaunch of the series moved away from this trend!
Continuing the summer camp theme with #StorytimeWithSteve, this week we're reading "It Happened at Camp Pine Tree" - a #ChooseYourOwnNightmare, the 'scary' 18-book #CYOA spinoff from 1995-7 designed to compete with the more popular 42-book #GiveYourselfGoosebumps series (1995-2000).
Fav camp counselor goes missing. Murdered by ghost, eaten by snakes, disintegrated by toxic waste? Only 6 endings - great setting, poor #gamebook.
With the unofficial start of summer, this week for #StorytimeWithSteve I'm reading "Summer Camp" - a 1984 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure for younger readers by Judy Gitenstein.
My coworkers & I enjoyed the many adventures for such a short book: archery, softball, hermit hunts, scaring friends, adventure trips, and 2 months away from our parents!
Can you help #IndianaJones find the long-lost treasure of Sheba? Doing my part this week reading this 1984 #gamebook with coworkers during #StorytimeWithSteve. There are 11 Indy adventures in this #FindYourFate series - some go for quite a lot of money on the resale market.
It's better than Crystal Skull.
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This week’s #StorytimeWithSteve book at work is “Vanished” - a 1986 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure by Deborah Lerme Goodman w/29 endings. Goodman has the distriction of writing for both the original and rebooted Choose eras!
I think I picked this up at a school book fair as a kid. Why weren't there more #CYOA stories about the Bermuda Triangle? Seems like a logical #gamebook mechanism to use, much like "The Cave of Time,” which shows up in at least 3 books. #Gamebooks #InteractiveFiction