Would a comic book with a Screen in it which is like a choose your own adventure be possible in 1988, let alone be made for $7
i loved how Susan acted like it was very doable and not so difficult. You just put in a microchip and then voila! You get an iPad to watch and create comic-books! For 18 bucks.
shareIMO conceivable that it would be around, but I seriously doubt whether it could be manufactured at that price.
shareEven if it were possible at that cost today, the sharks would price it over 100
shareFunny I was just remembering those Choose Your Own Adventure books from 1980s, theres a show about those books in London called Choose Your Own Documentary. Amazing this movie was a quarter of a century ago
shareFunny I was just remembering those Choose Your Own Adventure books from 1980s
It was cutting edge and seemed possible and pretty cool for the time. They never thought someone might question it almost 20 years later on the online.
shareNot only that, but all of those P2P RPG adventure games like World of Warcraft (and many others) that did pretty much Josh's idea of 'choosing your own adventure' in a high graphic computer game as early as 2002 or 03 or so.
Perhaps Josh remembered his ideas & grew up (again) to become a programmer for Blizzard, etc., by the time he would've really turned 30 in 2005... (Too bad they didn't have a sequel to 'Big' with Tom's son Colin Hanks (if not the original child actor) in the role of adult Josh in 2005 or so. lol )
I imagine the "book" itself would be a high-cost item, but I would imagine the software would simply consist of images which could be done quite cheaply and mass-produced. It wouldn;t be like an NES cartridge, but more like a 3.5" floppy with about 50 low resolution images on it.
Not completely unrealistic...
Lame (especially by today's standards), but not unrealistic.
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I was the same age as Josh when this came out and I thought it was an amazing idea. I don't think it would have been possible though because wouldn't some company have picked up the idea? I loved the idea and remember waiting for it to come out in stores. Lol
shareI would've bought them if they were more like video games like the old King's Quest games I used to play at the time.
I've always wanted them to make movies like this. Film a movie with 3 different versions and when you go to the theater you can watch version 1, 2 or 3. You would probably end up liking one of the versions the best and that would tell the movie company more of what people enjoy seeing to help make future movies better. It would kind of be like the new Star Tours ride at Disneyland where it changes and you get multiple adventures.
As a kid in the 80s electronics was such a cool thing. I wanted so many of the things available, if they did put out a comic book like this I'm sure I would've been totally into it. Things were a lot cheaper back then too. I mean 1988 gas prices were only about $65 to $75 cents per gallon. A Transformer like Optimus Prime was only $20 which now the same toy costs about $100 to $200 on Ebay. The smaller robots were only $10 which is a bargain. If I could go back in time I'd pay enormous amounts of money for them. I have an old electronic baseball game from 78 / 79 that still works and is still cool today. The handheld Nintendo Gameboy came out in 89 so I don't see why 88 an electronic comic book wasn't possible. My sister had this talking teacher thing that had a screen and different cartridges you could swap out and use.
The 80s really was a boom in advances in electronic tech.