[nervousvarun]

These books were incredibly important to me as an 80s kid. Was a voracious reader in general but absolutely loved these because they had replay value! I remember scouring through these on long family trips in the car to find every possible ending.

The parallels with modern video games are obvious.

[slfnflctd]

The first video game (and one of the first programs) I wrote was a self-styled Choose Your Own Adventure on a C64 with ASCII art and maybe a total of 10 pages.

The only person who acted impressed by it was my grandmother - who had paid for the C64 - but that was enough for me.

[pests]

Same. I would compulsively graph the options as I went so I could backtrack back decisions.

[isolli]

In fact, this inspired me to buy such a book for my 9-yo son! They've grown in size, apparently (250-300 pages). Let's see how, in the age of omnipresent screens, he likes it :)