Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: Fantasy Role-Playing books Message-ID: <3698@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 11:33:56 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3698 Posted: Fri Sep 21 11:33:56 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 02:13:23 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 31 > 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