Wildly popular in the 1980s, Choose Your Own Adventure books brought role playing and variable-ending adventures to book format. You Chose Wrong is an entertaining blog that catalogs the death pages of the books.
Fans of the series can certainly recall the feeling. There you are, sitting in the back of your parents’ car barreling down the interstate. The bottom of the page offers several choices for your next move. You could pick page 31, 52, or 98. You pick 52. You chose wrong.
Hit up the link below to check out other quirky end-of-story pages from the series.
You Chose Wrong [via Boing Boing]
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