Love this one!!!
That one is all kinds of awesome! When I was about ten years old, I remember seeing that in the children's section of the local library and almost passing out with excitement at what must lie within*. That one can be excused, for playing to its target audience's hind brain.
This one though...
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... It's just... I don't...
What in blue blazes is going on there? What element of that picture was supposed to entice a ten year old role playing nerd into trying out that game book? Was it the chubby blokes skiing? Was it the fact that they had jumped
almost a foot and a half off the floor? The fact they were being pursued by enemies who aren't even in the picture, so that I can't tell if they're scary or not? Even by the low standards of choose your own adventure books, that one was pretty damned uninspiring.
* Turns out it was D&D for friendless kids, same as all the others.
