Join me as I celebrate and revisit some of the first Choose Your Own Adventure Books including The Mystery Of Chimney Rock by Edward Packard. These US treasures were among the very first gamebooks, which cast the reader as the hero and presented them with branching narratives.

So let's take a look through a selection from the first 20 CYOA books and see how they stand up against our memories of them, eh? This might be the first gamebook review on this channel, but it won't be the last, either. I've started a brand new playlist for future gamebook videos, oh yes...

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CREDITS

This video features the song We Were Youth by one of my favourite bands, Baby Chaos. It is used with full permission. We Were Youth is taken from the band's most recent album Skulls, Skulls, Skulls, Show Me The Glory | https://amzn.to/2JID2Mo | http://www.babychaos.com

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