![]() Packard loved to tell bedtime stories to his daughters and he based them around the adventure stories of a boy named Pete. Not the epic Slick Rick song but our story begins with Edward Packard and his daughters. And if you’d rather learn about the guy who created them, skip to chapter 2. Or if you want to learn the origin story of Choose Your Own Adventure go to Chapter 1. You can listen to the podcast version here: Also fun fact The font used for the titles on the books is part of the inspiration for the Stranger Things logo.Īlright, let’s get started. I’ve learned what a massive success this book series was and lasted a good couple of decades. Turns out I wasn’t the only one into them. I also remember keeping one of these books in my desk while in third grade and trying to read sneakily as I couldn’t wait to see what happens. This is the pre Never Ending Story days that I feel captured on this a little bit. They were so interactive and immersive that you couldn’t help but feel like part of the story. But with Choose Your Own Adventure it was like discovering a game changer. I genuinely liked reading and even at a young age was big into the Narnia books. If there’s one strong memory I have from being a kid it was discovering the Choose Your Own Adventure books. The books would go on to sell over 350 million copies through the ’80s. They were written from a second-person point of view where the reader became the protagonist making choices which would alter the story. Even if you didn’t love reading, there may have been one book that seemed like you were experiencing a real-life video gameĬhoose Your Own Adventure books were a series of kids gamebooks popular in the 1980s.
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