Choose your own adventure? Where did it go?

Wow. I remember Choose Your Own Adventure books. I first heard of them when there was an offer on the back of a cereal packet to send off for your free book. So, the book came back and although I really loved the concept behind it the actual story was not so great. It was to do with being in a plane or something that went down and you were lost in the frozen wastes of Alaska, or northern Canada, or some place like that, and had to make your way back to civilization. Well, I was like this timid little eight year old girl, and I really did not like turning to this page or that page and getting told things like 'An avalanche has buried you. You wait for help, getting weaker and weaker, but nobody comes. Finally, you fall asleep for the last time.' Or that my foot has turned black from gangrene and dropped off. Or a polar bear has eaten me. In the end I just started cheating and looking ahead to both pages before I made my decision because I was so sick of the bad stuff happening to me! I think now we have computer games to give us that kind of interactive story, there is no need for Choose Your Own Adventure anymore. But I expect it taught future computer game programmers a lot about how to structure a story with many different forks!

I like it but i guess people got tired of it. And that this type of storyline is available as online game now. It's quite nice how it evolved from the book to games. Where you can't go to the next section of the game unless you choose this particular action.