boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (09/21/84)
> The first series of games like this I saw was called > "Choose Your Own Adventure" published by Bantam books.... > Bantam gets all its credit for the idea... > Mark R. Leeper > ...ihnp4!lznv!mrl The "Choose Your Own Adventure" series is published by Pocket Books, not Bantam Books. Bantam's series is the "Which Way" series. Without checking out my book collection, I can't be sure which of those two series is actually the first. They both started at pretty close to the same time, though. Some might consider this a picayune point, but if you're going to say that "X gets all the credit...", then you should get the right "X". It might be of interest to sf fans that there is a series of (so far) 4 Indiana Jones books of this ilk, from Ballantine. There is also a book in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series (#15, to be specific) that is a Star Trek story. Wanderer Books, a trade-size paperback arm of Simon & Schuster (who also own Pocket Books), have yet another series, called "Plot-Your- Own-Stories", with entries in that series being multi-path adventures of the various series characters published by Wanderer, such as the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Two of the books in this series are Star Trek, one as a tie-in to THE WRATH OF KHAN, and one to THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (09/23/84)
It seems that I owe Mark Leeper an apology. In a recent
posting about the various "multi-path adventure" books,
he mentioned that Bantam Books started the idea with its
"Choose Your Own Adventure" series. I responded with a
comment that it was Pocket Books, not Bantam, that had
done the "CYOA" books, and that Bantam had the "Which
Way" series, I also said that I wasn't sure which series
was actually first without consulting my collection.
Well, I did consult my collection, and much to
my embarrassment, I found that Mark was right and I was
wrong. The "CYOA" books were indeed published by Bantam,
and they were the first. Pocket published the "Which Way"
series.
This is the second time that I've managed to stick my
foot in my mouth in SFL, and its a trend I don't like.
Of course, it's not a bad overall record, when you
consider all the times I've been right. :-)
Oh, well, next time I'll check my "facts" *before* I
post them.
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)
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