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      CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE BOOKS
These books were popular in the 80's and early 90's, selling over 250 million copies between 1979-1998. Every book is packed with action and the reader is the star. Every couple of pages the reader needs to decide what he/she should do next.
Depending on the reader's choices a CYOA book can have a happy ending or one of many others. There is even a CYOA book that has an ending that can only be reached by cheating. Choose your own Adventure.
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Choose Your Own Adventure Books was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Unibrow  Octo-Stache  Queen of the Mist  Deja Vu  Gong  The Viking Helmet  Reliant Robin  Chindogu  Tiesto  Notorious B.I.G. Doll  The Disintegrator: Rubber Band Minigun  Death Star  Mermaids  Male Emperor Penguins  Rockin' Steady  Indy's Whip Choose Your Own Adventure Books was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Ultra Slow Motion  Troy Hurtubise's Inventions  Johnny Cash  Library of Congress  Rasputin  James Earl Jones Counts to 10
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Kenji Kawakami coined the term Chindogu and inspired a wave of inventions. These inventions or Chindogu seem to be the perfect solution to everyday problems except they aren't. (More Examples) The Ten Tenets of ChindoguFrom 101 UNUSELESS JAPANESE INVENTIONS by Kenji Kawakami
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Chindogu was voted MORE AWESOME than:
Unibrow  Peekaru The Viking Helmet  Stinky Cheese Notorious B.I.G. Doll Chindogu was voted LESS AWESOME than: Queen of the Mist Ultra Slow Motion Troy Hurtubise's Inventions Gong  Keith Loutit's Little Sydney Reliant Robin  Teddy Roosevelt Choose Your Own Adventure Books Rasputin  Che Guevara James Earl Jones Counts to 10 Death Star Mermaids Rockin' Steady
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Back before The Brick Testament launched my career to the heights of minor internet celebrity, my first brush with infamy was in 1997 as the creator of BRAD: the game, the internet's most perverted text-based Choose Your Own Adventure, loosely based on the exploits of my uncle Brad. http://www.bradthegame.com
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I see Brad bringing you a second championship ring.
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i like to pretend that you are not actually a person.
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but some sort of super intelligent robot or program
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If only.
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Oh hells, you should relase BRAD: the game as an iPhone app. That shizz would KILL!
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Books that would have been better if they had been "Choose Your Own Adventure":
1) The Motorcycle Diaries 2) James Joyce's Ulysses 3) To Kill a Mockingbird 4) The Grapes of Wrath 5) Gravity's Rainbow 6) Anne Frank's Diary reply
3.) You stand at Boo Radley's house. To go in, turn to page #23. To leave, turn to page #43. To leave a burning bag of dog poo, turn to page #99.
4.) To stay in Oklahoma, turn to page #59. To go to California, turn to page #102. To battle the Zombie Invasion in Tulsa, go to page, #408.
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I turn to page #99!
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I would totally turn to page #408.
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6.) The Nazi's are down stairs. To wish them a happy Hanukkah turn to page 29. To hide in the attic turn to page 107. To call in airstrike using telepathy turn to page 91.
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You need to write this!!!!!
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Anne Frank's Choose Your Own Diary, in a Borders near you summer 2010 :)
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I smell a Disney Presents "Anne Franke's CYOD" On Ice!!!
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Great new video for Chindogu. I especially like the Pachinko shoes.
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I see a Bukowski-like turn-around coming with the new video.
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yah the video helps A real lot....
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I think you had to be a kid in the early 80's to appreciate Choose Your Own Adventure. They were video games before video games. The whole concept of a book was taken to a whole different place, where you were the hero making the choices. There were different worlds to be explored, based on the choices you made. I bought every new one as soon as it hit the shelves.
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+1! That's exactly how I described CYOA books when I nominated them! Totally revolutionary, when you think that back then the term "interactive" didn't apply to absolutely everything. I think they helped foster my love of books - kinda like training wheels in a way - because they sorta helped spark your imagination with simply the words on the pages.
Not to mention that, back then, I'd imagine they were also rather tricky to write. Plus, the supposed origin of the genre was a man who wrote his own bedtime story to read to his kids - and made it so they could decide what happened next. Super awesome to me, but I do understand how it could be lost on people who never read them
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It's not just the scissors- it's an art form of making useful inventions that just will never really be produced...I saw in a Chindogu book a device for collecting leftover bits of soap that will compress them into a new bar of soap; a few years later some company actually started making them in the US and it was subsequently taken out of the Chindogu books. That's dedication.
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Uhhhmmm, I don't want to sell the awesomeness of Chindogu short but...scissors? I'm getting the feeling there's more to these "inventions", but just not picking it up...
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I don't know much about Chindogu itself, but those scissors look like a pair of "shredder scissors". I have a knock-off with more blades than the one in the picture. It was marketed as a low-cost alternative to a shreader, but it just takes ten times as long and is ten times as messy.
Shredder Scissors-good idea, except it doesn't work. Which I guess is the definition of Chindogu. It would be nice to see more examples, though.
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Thanks - I don't believe I've ever seen "shredder scissors", but after your description and looking again at the pic, I think you're right. I guess the CONCEPT of a simple manual device that accomplishes the same task as a complicated, (relatively) expensive electronic gadget is pretty awesome...if it worked well!
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I think we are still trying to get some more photos we have the rights to use. Chindogu is definitely awesome and hilarious, we better polish it off quick!
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New MAP right here. I think that no one really cares enough about this to oppose this
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Japanese scissors? Is that what I'm voting on here? Can anyone explain?
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Oooh, the first candidate I've ever nominated - do I need to recuse myself from voting?
Naah, CYOA books are just way too awesome!
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