Definition of "gamebooks" [gamebooks]

• Plural form of gamebook. (noun)

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• "I tried comics, gamebooks, board games, and later poems and plays."
• "Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson were in the mix as well."
• "For more interesting connections between wargaming and RPGs, Demian Katz has a fantastic and comprehensive article "Gamebook History" on gamebooks "choose your own adventure" etc. - it has a section on how gamebooks were used from 1976 on as an early way of implementing solo play for RPG systems."