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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: Fantasy Role-Playing books
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Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 11:33:56 EDT
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>      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)

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