Gamebooks, including: Gamebook, Lone Wolf (gamebooks), Date With Destiny Adventure, Time Machine (novel Series), Give Yourself Goosebumps, Lost Worlds ... Temple Of Flame, Nintendo Adventure Books

A gamebook (also sometimes referred to as choose your own adventure books or CYOA books, not to be confused with the series by that title) is a work of fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices that affect the course of the narrative, which branches down various paths through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages. The genre was mainly popular during the 1980s. Borges' later work El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Forking Paths)' describes a Chinese writer who goes into seclusion to write a book and construct a maze, the twist being that the end result is a combination of the two, but in one item - the fictional novel is a maze-like narrative which only makes sense if read in the correct manner, although this fictional book requires the reader to use deduction to determine the correct order of reading, rather than providing instructions like the modern gamebook., although it was well past the peak of its popularity in the West by that time. While internationally known series such as Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy were also translated, the period was mostly characterized by the work of a vast number of Bulgarian gamebook authors, some of them immensely productive and popular. Since Bulgarian publishing houses at the time believed that only Western names would sell, virtually all Bulgarian gamebook authors wrote under English pseudonyms, a tradition that persisted despite the fact that their nationality soon became