Talk:List of Choose Your Own Adventure books

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I just got a copy of a Your First Adventure #11, and it's supposed to be Little Fox and the Birthday Party, but the actual book is titled Little Fox's Best Friend. Does anybody know why there's a difference between the list and the actual book, or have a reason why I shouldn't change it?

EDWARD PACKARD BOOKS Note - several of the Edward Packard books were published prior to the date listed here -- especially Deadwood City, and (IIRC) Third Planet from Altair and Your Code Name is Jonah. Their publication pre-dated CYOA, but they were later integrated into the series. Should include a footnote to that effect. 68.41.72.83 (talk) 15:45, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This list is incomplete; some Choose Your own Adventure Books were co-published by TSR, with books set in the worlds of "Dungeons & Dragons," "Top Secret," etc. Minaker 09:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure those books are part of the Choose Your Own Adventure family and not just totally different series of gamebooks released by the same publisher? I looked for the ones you mentioned on gamebooks.org and couldn't find them - they don't appear under the Choose Your Own Adventure product family. EvilRedEye 10:04, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I could have sworn they were Choose Your Own Adventure stories, but evidence I've found on the 'net says the TSR books were a CYOA rip-off series called "Endless Quest." Minaker 11:13, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah the D&D Books were a parallel item, put out by TSR. They were more single player RPGS, where choices were often made less by your choices and more by the Roll of the dice. A couple others jump to my mind like Car Wars, which had a very successful series and Lord of the Rings, which had a lot of paperwork but were good as well. Chooseco 15:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That is incorrect. Endless Quest books did not involve die play at all. They were story logs that demanded multiple-choice decisions with a resulting page drop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.10.61.128 (talk) 13:36, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There was a series that is not on this list, the Young Indiana Jones CYOA books. Thank you for reminding me, I'll add those today. Chooseco 15:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Am I going insane? I swear I read a CYOA book called "The Purple Dome" when I was a kid, but I can't find it anywhere on the internet. Has anyone else heard of it? 74.94.21.101 (talk) 23:43, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you are referring to The Power Dome. Stonemason89 (talk) 22:30, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand why CYOA can be listed as "Low" in the literature scale of importance above. According to the scale, it seems that important books are the best known within their categories, not that they are necessarily important within all literature overall. If that's the case, then surely CYOA would be rated "Top" or at least "High", since they pretty much popularized their subgenre of gamebooks, and have in fact become a household word. Thoughts? Thanks. Pinscht (talk) 07:44, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There hasn't been any further comment on this, so I'm changing this entry from "Low" to "Mid" importance on the scale. I'm going on the assumption that a list of titles is only "notable or significant within the field of literature (or to a historian), but not necessarily outside it" according to the criteria. This despite the fact the series itself is rated "High" importance in its own entry. Pinscht (talk) 21:31, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why is 'Escape from the Haunted Warehouse' listed? I cannot find any evidence that this book was published.PatchWar (talk) 21:28, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No-one has come back on this, so I've moved it into the Chooseco section, as it was published earlier this year by them. I might have incurred the wrath of someone by doing so, but I welcome friendly discussion on the matter! PatchWar (talk) 13:16, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 13:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Doctor Who

Should the Dr Who Choose Your Own Adventure books be included? See here. Bondegezou (talk) 13:24, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]