As someone who spent *way* too much time with both the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy books as a kid, I feel compelled to point out that Jackson and Livingstone wrote much of the Fighting Fantasy series – not the CYOA series.

Of course, the Lone Wolf series of adventure books were more exciting than both of the above series combined – and thanks to the incredible generosity of the author, Joe Dever, they're now available for free download at <a href=" projectaon.org\">Project Aon</a> – projectaon.org/.

Actually, CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventures) has become a generic term to describe this branch of IF (Interactive Fiction). I was referring to the generic term. By the way, I read the Jackson/ Livingstone books in German, so I'm not familiar with any of the two specific "brands" "Choose Your Own Adventure" or "Fighting Fantasy".

... I updated the post to make things perfectly clear.

Oops, too pedantic. Bad tendency of mine. :)

Actually, I've been into something of a heated trademark discussion on this before. Basically I chose "Create your own adventure" as slogan for QML, and someone said this could bring a lawsuit onto me. Google Groups reveals the details from 2002 groups-beta.google.com/group/c ...

Many consider Rayuela, the novel by Julio Cortázar, an early form of hypertext. Published in 1963

When did CYOA appeared?

Thanks