Re: PBM For Kids

From: tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)

Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000

MadCentral <madcentral@aol.com> wrote:
>
>Okay.  But you'll think im mad.  (Or madder).

We'd be disappointed with anything less ;)

>
>When I was a kid I was given a birthday present.  It was a book, very nice too,
>nicely bound, nice colour pictures  in it... but the catch with this book was
>that it was about *me*.

[snippage]

>Interactive stories, like the book I got when I was a kid, but in 'chapters'.
>The parents fill in the info and after that the computer drops the info into
>the stories.  There would be a number of pre-set stories, so when the kids have
>done one they can do another.  You wouldn't write a new story for the new
>customer every time you'd have a set of them you reused.  And you'd make it so
>the stories didn't always follow the same route.
>

Kind of a turn-based, personalised "choose your own adventure"?  (Did you
ever read those as a kid?  I was hooked, which lead to Fighting Fantasy et al,
which lead to AD&D & PBM & & &...)

I think it's a blinder, if you can get people who aren't already PBMers to
read it with their kids.  Children are big with anticipation too (think what
you were like waiting for Christmas as a kid!), so waiting for the next
installment to turn up is almost a selling point itself.

If I had kids, I'd certainly investigate it.

Regards,
Tim.

References

Re: PBM For Kids
"Paul Green" <Paul@warrior-games.com>
Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM For Kids
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: PBM For Kids
"Paul Green" <Paul@warrior-games.com>
Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM For Kids
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000