Gamebooks Gamebooks Ace of Aces is a two-player combat picture book game designed by Alfred Leonardi and first published in 1980 by Nova Game Designs. In 1981, Ace of Aces won the Charles Roberts/ Origins Gamers choice of 1980. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ace of Aces"
Aon is the name of the fantasy universe created by Joe Dever, in which the popular role-playing gamebooks series Lone Wolf is set. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aon (Fantasy Universe)"
Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's books first published by Bantam Books from 1979 to 1998 and currently published by ChooseCo of Warren, Vermont. Each story is written from a second person point-of-view, with the reader assuming the role of the main character. ...more on Wikipedia about "Choose Your Own Adventure"
The Date with Destiny Adventure series comprises two short novels of interactive fiction published by Quirk Books in 2003 that parodied the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Both books featured covers and interior designs similar to those of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books, but they are based around adult themes. The first book, Night of a Thousand Boyfriends, is similar to the television show Sex and the City, and the second book, Escape From Fire Island, is set on Fire Island, part of which is a famous gay resort. ...more on Wikipedia about "Date with Destiny Adventure"
(Fabled Lands) Originally planned as a twelve-book series, only six were released between 1995 and 1996 before the series was cancelled. The series was also printed under the name Quest in the U.S. by publishers Price Stern Sloan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fabled Lands"
A gamebook is a book with a branching storyline that serves as a medium for gameplay. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gamebook"
Grailquest is a series of gamebooks by J.H. Brennan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grailquest" Are you ready for shortopedia? shortopedia
The Legends of Skyfall was a series of four adventure gamebooks written by David Tant and published by Armada in 1985. They were written to cash in on the explosive popularity of such books, spawned by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy and later Joe Dever's Lone Wolf series. ...more on Wikipedia about "Legends of Skyfall"
Lone Wolf is a collection of 28 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever and initially illustrated by Gary Chalk. The first book in the series was published in 1984. It has been adapted to a role-playing game by Mongoose Publishing in 2004 under Open Game License; it uses the Mongoose's OGL System. The first twenty are being made available as Project Aon Internet editions. Joe Dever has now also granted Project Aon permission to publish the last eight books (21-28). An online MMORPG is being created as freeware for release in 2006, so fans will be able to visit and interact in the Lone Wolf universe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lone Wolf"
Lost Worlds is a "combat picture book game" designed by Alfred Leonardi and originally published in 1983 by Nova Game Designs. The game has had many publishers, including Chessex, Emithill, Flying Buffalo and Greysea. In 1984, Lost Worlds won the Charles Roberts/ Origins Award for Best Fantasy Boardgame of 1983.
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Magnamund is the world in the fantasy universe Aon, created by Joe Dever, on which the Lone Wolf series of role-playing gamebooks are set. ...more on Wikipedia about "Magnamund"
Night Terror is a gamebook by Alice Henderson set in the Buffyverse fictional universe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Night Terrors (Buffy novel)"
(Nintendo Adventure Books) * #1 Double Trouble by Clyde Bosco ...more on Wikipedia about "Nintendo Adventure Books"
Sonic the Hedgehog (Japanese: ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ Sonikku Za Hejjihoggu, or, in non-romanized Japanese, Sonikku Harinezumi) is the flagship character and mascot for the video and arcade game company Sega, which has released a series of video games in which he appears. ** He has been a playable character in over forty games and has appeared in many others. Sonic was competing head-to-head with Nintendo's mascot Mario for over a decade until Sega left the console market in 2001. His games are now on various other consoles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sonic the Hedgehog"
Time Machine was a series of children's books published by Bantam Books from 1984 to 1989, similar to their more successful Choose Your Own Adventure line of " interactive" novels. Each book was in the second person, with the reader choosing how the story should progress. They were designed by Byron Preiss Visual Publications. ...more on Wikipedia about "Time Machine (book series)"
Wizards Warriors & You was a series of Choose Your Own Adventure-style children's books, inspired by Dungeons & Dragons and early text adventure games like Zork and Colossal Cave, published by Avon Books in the 1980s. The books all starred a nameless Wizard and Warrior, and began with the reader choosing which of the two characters (s)he would "play", with the other character providing a supporting role. If the reader chose the Warrior, he then could choose which three weapons listed in the back of the book to take with him on the adventure. If the reader chose the Wizard, he had access to all of the spells listed in the back of the book. The two characters' paths through the book were independant of one another, diverging after the introduction, and only reconverging at the end. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wizards Warriors & You"
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