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Bonus Episode - The Cave of Time

January 15, 2024

We’re investigating a key piece of gamebook history this episode as we explore The Cave of Time, the first proper Choose Your Own Adventure book by Edward Packard with art by Paul Granger. With 40 different endings this packs a lot of adventure into a small package. It spawned a wildly successful franchise but is this book actually any good? HJDoom plays it to find out and offers a mildly contentious and completely untested theory about the reason gamebooks exploded in the early eighties.

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In podcast Tags choose your own adventure, paul granger, edward packard, bantam books, CYOA, gamebooks, interactive fiction, children's books, 1980s, retro, nostalgia, 80s, nerd, kids, fiction, gamebook, adventure gamebooks, adventure game books, game books, time travel, science fiction, adventure
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