Nintendo gamebooks
Nintendo gamebooks are novels based on video games created by Nintendo. The gamebooks feature characters and settings from the "Super Mario" and "The Legend of Zelda" franchises, in two series, "Nintendo Adventure Books" and "You Decide on the Adventure". Section::::"Nintendo Adventure Book". The "Nintendo Adventure Book" series of 12 books was created by Russell Ginns, author of the "Samantha Spinner" series. It was published from 1991 to 1992 by Simon and Schuster in the United States and Archway Books and Mammoth Books in the United Kingdom. They are formatted like the popular "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, where  the story progresses with the reader's decisions. Ten of the books are about the adventures of the Mario brothers in the Mushroom Kingdom and are based primarily on the Valiant comics published for the "Nintendo Comics System" imprint. Books nine and ten are about Link from "The Legend of Zelda" series. Each book is 121 pages long, containing various puzzles such as mazes and word searches. The inventory system has the player collects items used to solve the puzzles, with a scoring system on a scale at the end of the book. There is one victorious ending and multiple  unsuccessful (often lethal to the characters involved) endings which end by saying Game Over. Some of the books were re-released as a promotion for Pringles. Section::::"You Decide on the Adventure". The "You Decide on the Adventure" series has four gamebooks published by Scholastic from 2001 to 2002. All four were written by Craig Wessel, based on Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color games.