I specifically remember Your Code Name Is Jonah and Space Patrol being two of my favorites.
My classmates and I would discuss our favorite titles, exchange tips on how to get to the “best” endings, and share our favorite endings. Aside from my family’s encyclopedias, they might’ve been the only books that I read on a regular basis at that age. As for Packard, he’s published additional titles under his own U-Ventures imprint and in 2020, released an interactive audio version of Journey to the Year 3000.Īround 4th or 5th grade, I became obsessed with the CYOA books. Montgomery’s Chooseco, which continues to publish new titles (like the upcoming The Flight of the Unicorn) as well as republish classic CYOA titles. The CYOA license is currently owned by R. Some of these new lines were geared towards specific audiences (like younger readers) or were serialized (like Packard’s Space Hawks titles) while others were branded with Disney and Star Wars. It was a massive success, selling over 250 million copies and inspiring additional lines. The original CYOA line ran from 1979 – 1998, and contains almost 200 books that span genres including fantasy, sci-fi, horror, sports, martial arts, and espionage. Montgomery, Julius Goodman, Louise Munro Foley, and Packard’s own daughter, Andrea. Packard would eventually write over seventy CYOA books, with the rest written by a variety of authors including R. Packard wrote several more books in the same vein, and in 1979, Bantam Books published the first official Choose Your Own Adventure title: Packard’s The Cave of Time. Though initially passed over by several publishers, Sugarcane Island was eventually published in 1976 by Vermont Crossroads Press, which sold 8,000 copies of the book. In 1969, Packard wrote The Adventures of You on Sugarcane Island.
Inspired by his kids’ enthusiastic response to this interactive approach to storytelling, Packard decided to write a book in which the reader was the “star” of the story, and could experience multiple plots and endings based on their choices. Packard then came up with original endings based on their ideas. One night, though, he ran out of ideas for the story he was telling and asked his two daughters what should happen next. Like many parents, Edward Packard told his kids bedtime stories.
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