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Usborne Puzzle Adventures

In the mid 1980s, books had become boring. All the kids wanted were either robots that turned into cars, computer games that CORRUPTED (such as Trapdoor) and drugs. The booksellers were desperate – how could they combine robots, corruption and drugs?

Well, they couldn’t, so Usborne instead ripped off those Fighting Fantasy books and created…

USBORNE PUZZLE ADVENTURES!

These things were the greatest – 44 pages of glory in which little kids had adventures where you had to help them! On every page was a puzzle, which you had to solve before you could turn the page. Failure to do so would render the story unreadable and useless › Continue reading

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Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Media 4 Comments