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From: "Andre' Selmer" <031ANDRE@******.wits.ac.za>
Subject: Re: RPGs on their way out?
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 09:55:51 GMT + 2:00
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@ > There was a similar 'fad' about 10 years back. Remember those RPG books whe
@ re
@ > you would turn to a page based on which action you selected ? They were aro
@ und
@ > for a few years, now they arent found anywhere.
@ >
@ > jhm
@ >
@
@ You mean choose-your-own-adventure books? They're still around I
@ think... just not in as many quantities as before. =) I think they
@ probably appear in elementary school book-ordering clubs like Arrow or
@ whatever they call it now...
@
Actually they are still around in fairly large quantities, you
just have to know where to look. I can claim this as directly
oppersite the counter where I work, there are several shelves of the
things.



Andre'

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