History of Branching Story Games

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Hopeless Games take you on a sweeping tour of branching story games from ancient dice divination and experimental literature to game books and paragraph-based board games. 0:00 Intro 1:28 Ancient Dice Divination 6:54 Renaissance Parlor Games 11:09 Experimental Literature 16:44 Early Interactive Fiction 18:27 Choose Your Own Adventure 25:24 Early Computer Games 28:55 Buffalo Castle (1976) 34:18 The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (1982) 43:27 Melee & Wizard (1977-78) 45:43 Death Test (1979) 47:37 TimeTripper (1980) 49:20 Voyage of the BSM Pandora (1981) 51:15 The Return of the Stainless Steel Rat (1981) 52:26 Damocles Mission (1983) 53:03 Barbarian Prince (1981) 55:16 Ambush! (1983) 1:00:03 Tales of the Arabian Nights (1985) 1:01:40 City of Chaos (1996) 1:04:32 War Story: Occupied France (2024) Join this channel: / https://youtube.com/@hopelessstream Twitch: / https://twitch.tv/hopelessstream Instagram: / https://instagram.com/hopelessgames Facebook: / https://facebook.com/hopelessgames Hopeless Games are game makers who plays niche games. Make up stories. And design Hopeless Games of their own. 🔹Check out own special brand of hopeless games here: https://www.hopelessgames.com/ #TabletopGaming #BoardGames #TabletopRPG #StoryDrivenGames #soloBoardGames #BranchingStoryGames #ParagraphBasedGames #ProgrammedAdventures #InteractiveFiction #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #FightingFantasy #ExperimentalLiterature #ParlorGames #DiceDivination