Death sometimes comes in horribly inventive ways, yielding textual Ludicrous Gibs. There are typically more ways of failing and/or dying than succeeding. There were many Crossover titles, including ones with Disney movies, and Star Wars, as well as spinoffs like a line for very young readers and a horror line called Choose Your Own Nightmare when YA horror was all the rage in the mid-90s. Plots included Time Travel, UFO abduction, cross-continent racing, getting lost at sea, solving murder mysteries and coping with supercomputers. The stories are told in Second-Person Narration, which is justified in a meta sort of way: you're the one reading the book and making the decisions about what to do next, so you should play the role of the protagonist. The series, begun in 1979, saw the peak of its fame in The '80s, and after Bantam Books ceased publication of the books, was revived in 2007 under the independent company Chooseco. The Choose Your Own Adventure series is a famous and highly successful example of the Gamebook genre with 250 million copies in print. To find out if the Viking ghost is even in the book, turn to the next page. To confront the Viking ghost, go to page 87.
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