{"id":14901,"date":"2025-12-01T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:57:55","slug":"what-ever-happened-to-choose-your-own-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14901","title":{"rendered":"What ever happened to Choose your Own Adventure?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Think Choose Your Own Adventure books were the first? Think again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MiKXCYbZT_Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/bibliomania\/2025\/01\/01\/consider-the-consequences-in-2025\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/bibliomania\/2025\/01\/01\/consider-the-consequences-in-2025\/\">Consider the Consequences<\/a>!<\/em> was an interactive romantic novel published in 1930 &#8211; and was <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/consider-the-consequences-1930\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/consider-the-consequences-1930\/\">made available on the internet archive<\/a>. There&#8217;s even an <a href=\"https:\/\/geetheriot.itch.io\/consider-the-consequences\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/geetheriot.itch.io\/consider-the-consequences\">online game version on itch.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Netflix&#8217;s <em>Bandersnatch<\/em>, the world&#8217;s first interactive movie was a Czech film called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kinoautomat\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kinoautomat\">Kinoautomat<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want some fun, there are a few folks that read\/review the books online:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCRwETIFNGU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R1aGIG37dqE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Choose Your Own Adventure books were the first? Think again Consider the Consequences! was an interactive romantic novel published in 1930 &#8211; and was made available on the internet archive. There&#8217;s even an online game version on itch.io. Before Netflix&#8217;s Bandersnatch, the world&#8217;s first interactive movie was a Czech film called Kinoautomat. If you want some fun, there are a few folks that read\/review the books online:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Sl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14902,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions\/14902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}