Twistaplot
Twistaplot is a series of children's gamebooks that were published by Scholastic from 1982 to 1985. Books #1, #4, #9, and #14 were written by R.L. Stine, who would go on to write the "Fear Street" series and the "Goosebumps" series, which in turn spawned the gamebook spin-off series "Give Yourself Goosebumps". The remaining books were written by various authors including Louise Munro Foley. They were Scholastic's response to the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series. After the success of the "Goosebumps" series, the Twistaplot titles that were written by R. L. Stine were reissued with new  covers in 1994 and 1995. Style and gameplay. Twistaplot covers a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Similar to the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" series, they are novels with branching plots. The books are written from the second-person perspective, in present-tense form. The protagonist in each book is never referred to by name, and the protagonist's gender is ambiguous. Thus readers can easily imagine themselves as the protagonist of the story. Unlike the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" series, the books have interior illustrations. Spin-offs. After the success of Twistaplot, the series spawned a series  of computer games for Scholastic's electronic magazine, "Microzine". It also spawned another gamebook spin-off titled "Pick-a-Path", which was intended for a younger audience.