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* AlternateEnding: In ''Space Patrol'', one of the endings has you sentenced to life in a prison colony on the moon. ''However'', a blurb after "The End" tells you "If you don't like this ending, turn to page 87." ''If you take this alternate ending, go on to the AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence trope.''
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* AlternateEnding: In ''Space Patrol'', one of the endings has you sentenced to life in a prison colony on the moon. ''However'', a blurb after "The End" tells you "If you don't like this ending, turn to page 87." ''If "
-->''If you take this alternate ending, go on to the AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence trope.''
-->''If you take this alternate ending, go on to the AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence trope.''
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* AlternateEnding: In ''Space Patrol'', one of the endings has you sentenced to life in a prison colony on the moon. ''However'', a blurb after "The End" tells you "If you don't like this ending, turn to page 87." ''If you take this alternate ending, go on to the AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence trope.''
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: One of the ''Inside UFO 54-40'' endings: "You leave your body behind and join your mind with the Xu'ka."
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: One of the ''Inside UFO 54-40'' ''Space Patrol'' endings: "You leave your body behind and join your mind with the Xu'ka."
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* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: ''Secret of the Pyramids''.
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''Note: This is the entry for the actual ''Choose Your Own Adventure'' series. For the entire genre, also known as "gamebooks", click [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure here]].''
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* HaveANiceDeath: See TheManyDeathsOfYou below. Your demise is described in all ''sorts'' of gruesome, gory detail.
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* HaveANiceDeath: HaveANiceDeath / ItsAWonderfulFailure: See TheManyDeathsOfYou below. Your demise is described in all ''sorts'' of gruesome, gory detail.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Any book with a clear villain, such as ''Space Vampire'' and ''Journey to the Year 3000'', is guaranteed to invoke this multiple times.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Any book with a clear villain, such as ''Space Vampire'' and or ''Journey to the Year 3000'', is guaranteed to invoke this multiple times.
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The ''Choose Your Own Adventure'' series is a famous and highly successful example of the gamebook genre with 250 million copies in print. The series, begun in 1979, saw the peak of its fame in TheEighties, and after Bantam Books ceased publication of the books, was revived in 2007 under the independent company Chooseco.
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The ''Choose Your Own Adventure'' series is a famous and highly successful example of the [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure gamebook genre genre]] with 250 million copies in print. The series, begun in 1979, saw the peak of its fame in TheEighties, and after Bantam Books ceased publication of the books, was revived in 2007 under the independent company Chooseco.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Any book with a clear villain, such as ''Space Vampire'', is guaranteed to invoke this multiple times.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Any book with a clear villain, such as ''Space Vampire'', Vampire'' and ''Journey to the Year 3000'', is guaranteed to invoke this multiple times.
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* NonstandardGameOver: One of the endings of ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'' has you leaving the haunted house after being told by a ghostly creature [[DontLookBack never to look back]]. Of course if you don't like that ending, you can choose to look back one last time anyway, the resulting page of which simply has a bloodcurdling scream down the page followed by a THUNK.
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* NonstandardGameOver: One of the endings of ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'' has you leaving the haunted house after being told by a ghostly creature [[DontLookBack never to look back]]. Of course if you don't like that ending, you can choose to look back one last time anyway, the resulting page of which simply has a bloodcurdling scream down the page followed by a THUNK.'''THUNK'''.
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** Another ending from the same book has your character accidentally breaking the resident witch's china cat and being cursed to pick up the pieces for all eternity, complete with '''There Is No End'''.
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* OhCrap: Many, of the illustrations, especially if you're about to die.
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* OhCrap: Many, Many of the illustrations, especially if you're about to die.
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* RodentsOfUnusualSize: ''The Third Planet from Altair'', complete with a [[http://www.ethblue.com/cyoa/deathrat.jpg good up-close look at one]] should you decide to [[TooDumbToLive sit down and rest]] after outrunning it.
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: ''Space Vampire'' and its sequel ''Vampire Invaders''.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Even yourself, if the page you chose has an unfortunate ending.
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* CatsAreMean: You can be shrunken down and ''eaten'' by one in ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock''.
* CruelTwistEnding: A staple of the series. It's not uncommon to turn to a page that looks like it will have a positive ending, until the word "however" shows up.
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* HauntedHouse: ''The Mystery of Chimney Rock'' (re-released as ''The Curse of the Haunted Mansion'')
* HaveANiceDeath: See TheManyDeathsOfYou below. Your demise is described in all ''sorts'' of gruesome, gory detail.
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* TheManyDeathsOfYou: So many that there are [[http://loseyourownadventure.tumblr.com/ entire]] [[http://youchosewrong.tumblr.com/ blogs]] devoted to showcasing the worst ones.
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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: ''Prisoner Of The Ant People'', ''You Are Microscopic'', ''Help! You're Shrinking''
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* ThoseWackyNazis: ''Shadow of the Swastika''
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* AIIsACrapshoot: ''Supercomputer'', ''Your Very Own Robot'', ''The Computer Takeover''
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* GreekMythology: ''The Throne of Zeus''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: ''Spy For George Washington'', ''You Can Make A Difference: The Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.''
* LighterAndSofter: A couple of CYOA series were made for younger readers that had less [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] than the original series.
* MagicalComputer: ''Supercomputer'', ''The Reality Machine''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: ''Spy For George Washington'', ''You Can Make A Difference: The Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.''
* LighterAndSofter: A couple of CYOA series were made for younger readers that had less [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] than the original series.
* MagicalComputer: ''Supercomputer'', ''The Reality Machine''
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: One of the ''Inside UFO 54-40'' endings: "You leave your body behind and join your mind with the Xu'ka."
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* NorseMythology: You get a crash course in it with the introduction to ''The Trumpet Of Terror''.
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* FairPlayWhodunnit: ''Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?''
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* MindScrew: ''Inside UFO 54-40'' contains one ending that is inaccessible from any other page, in which you end up at Ultima, the "planet of paradise".
** This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in that particular ending ("No one can choose to visit Ultima... nor can you get here by following directions") and other parts of the book, where some people speak of a world called Ultima that is impossible to get to by conventional means.
** This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in that particular ending ("No one can choose to visit Ultima... nor can you get here by following directions") and other parts of the book, where some people speak of a world called Ultima that is impossible to get to by conventional means.
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* DownerEnding: Lots of them per book.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Of course.
* GainaxEnding: One of the endings in ''Inside UFO 54-40'' has you warping through strange dimensions, until you've ended up "...here at this moment, reading a book!"
* MultipleEndings: Obviously.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Of course.
* GainaxEnding: One of the endings in ''Inside UFO 54-40'' has you warping through strange dimensions, until you've ended up "...here at this moment, reading a book!"
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The ''Choose Your Own Adventure'' series is a famous and highly successful example of the gamebook genre with 250 million copies in print. The series, begun in 1979, saw the peak of its fame in TheEighties, and [[VisualNovel far from dead.]]
after Bantam Books ceased publication of the books, was revived in 2007 under the independent company Chooseco.
The stories are told in SecondPersonNarration, which is [[JustifiedTrope 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. Plots included TimeTravel, UFO abduction, cross-continent racing, getting lost at sea, solving murder mysteries and coping with supercomputers. There are typically more ways of failing and/or dying than succeeding. Death sometimes comes in [[TheManyDeathsOfYou horribly]] [[HaveANiceDeath inventive]] [[{{Gorn}} ways]], yielding textual LudicrousGibs.
The stories are told in SecondPersonNarration, which is [[JustifiedTrope 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. Plots included TimeTravel, UFO abduction, cross-continent racing, getting lost at sea, solving murder mysteries and coping with supercomputers. There are typically more ways of failing and/or dying than succeeding. Death sometimes comes in [[TheManyDeathsOfYou horribly]] [[HaveANiceDeath inventive]] [[{{Gorn}} ways]], yielding textual LudicrousGibs.
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[[caption-width-right:193:To confront the viking ghost, go to page 87. To flee the viking ghost, [[{{Railroading}} go to page 87]].]]
The ''Choose Your Own Adventure'' series is a famous and highly successful example of the gamebook genre with 250 million copies in print. The series, begun in 1979, saw the peak of its fame in TheEighties, and [[VisualNovel far from dead.]]
'''Example:'''
You enter the marble-clad forum to discover a GHOUL feasting on a corpse. Do you want to:
* Attack the GHOUL? (Turn to [[RocksFallEveryoneDies 203]])
* Use your Potion of Persuasion, if you have one? (Turn to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 288]])
* Try to sneak around? (Turn to [[LudicrousGibs 17]])
The stories are told in SecondPersonNarration, which is [[JustifiedTrope 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. Plots included TimeTravel, UFO abduction, cross-continent racing, getting lost at sea, solving murder mysteries and coping with supercomputers. There are typically more ways of failing and/or dying than succeeding. Death sometimes comes in [[TheManyDeathsOfYou horribly]] [[HaveANiceDeath inventive]] [[{{Gorn}} ways]], yielding textual LudicrousGibs.
!!As you venture further down, you are confronted with the following tropes:
* AnAdventurerIsYou
[[caption-width-right:193:To confront the viking ghost, go to page 87. To flee the viking ghost, [[{{Railroading}} go to page 87]].]]
The ''Choose Your Own Adventure'' series is a famous and highly successful example of the gamebook genre with 250 million copies in print. The series, begun in 1979, saw the peak of its fame in TheEighties, and [[VisualNovel far from dead.]]
'''Example:'''
You enter the marble-clad forum to discover a GHOUL feasting on a corpse. Do you want to:
* Attack the GHOUL? (Turn to [[RocksFallEveryoneDies 203]])
* Use your Potion of Persuasion, if you have one? (Turn to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 288]])
* Try to sneak around? (Turn to [[LudicrousGibs 17]])
The stories are told in SecondPersonNarration, which is [[JustifiedTrope 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. Plots included TimeTravel, UFO abduction, cross-continent racing, getting lost at sea, solving murder mysteries and coping with supercomputers. There are typically more ways of failing and/or dying than succeeding. Death sometimes comes in [[TheManyDeathsOfYou horribly]] [[HaveANiceDeath inventive]] [[{{Gorn}} ways]], yielding textual LudicrousGibs.
!!As you venture further down, you are confronted with the following tropes:
* AnAdventurerIsYou
