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R. A. Montgomery 1936 – 2014
- Kurtz79 12y agoIt took me only a few seconds to recognize the name (the other would be Edward Packard). "Choose your own adventure" were my introduction to "real" books as a kid, I loved them, I probably read each one of the several dozens I owned a dozen of times. They definitely sparked my interest for both fiction and games.
- Scuds 12y agoOh God, that font. Oh God, it's an image!
- trevelyan 12y agoThank you, Ray.
- scelerat 12y agoThe announcement is set in the same typeface that the texts Choose Your Own Adventure series were set: ITC Souvenir. The title texts on the cover were ITC Korinna. These seemed to be a popular choice in the late '70s/early '80s. I remember TSR Advanced Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks and modules, among other things, used the same faces.
- theoh 12y agoSouvenir looks childish to my eye, and thus somewhat patronizing. I wonder if it looked childish back then too.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoThey were kid's books, dude.
- scelerat 12y agoMy first forays into BASIC programming were laboriously copying the text from a choose your own adventure and making a simple online version using IFs an GOSUBs.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoYeah, me too, though I wrote my own story (such as it was). About all I remember is that you had to find the anti-tank gun to defeat the dragon. IIRC, the final version left 38 bytes of free RAM on my Atari 400. :-)
- JohnBooty 12y agoI've noticed that R.A. Montgomery's CYOA books seem to get a bad rap for being too meandering/hippy/trippy. This is the exact reason why his entries in the series have always been my favorites.
- percept 12y agoI had forgotten...