Ambar’s Fate – The Gamebook Review: Hardcore Droid

Gamebooks came to popularity at a time when mainstream audiences were first being introduced to interactive storytelling—those fast and furious years between the decline of tabletop and the rise of videogames—and they almost certainly wouldn’t have exploded the way they did in any other historical context. Yet they fell out of popularity when videogames subsumed them. Gamebooks, then, are a priceless artifact in the annals of gaming history: something our medium both created and destroyed.