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Transformers Highway Clash - Adventure Gamebook Review

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You find an old copy of an adventure game book on your desk, you've no idea how it got there, but you pick it up and have a flick through and become intrigued. Will you, Continue reading? Go to page 2, or Continue reading? Go to page 2. If you love Transformers, old school G1, and Choose our own adventure type adventure game books, then this book is for you  Optimus Prime, is here, or at least he will be once you find him and help him and Prowl take on Megatron with his latest mad plot to..... ahhh, well that would be a spoiler ;) Oh and Rumbles here's too. Or is it Frenzy? We've saved the best till last, as did the writers and publishers of this series as the Big Guns, the leaders of the  Autobot's and Decepticon's finally get to go head to head in the last Adventure Game Book in the series.

Ohh, look, here's a new Transformers Adventure Gamebook review, Dinobot War.

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Ahhhh, I meant to get this posted up here yesterday, but better late than never, eh? Continuing my series of reviews of role playing adventure gamebooks from yesteryear, this review looks at the third Transformers book, "Dinobot War" as YOU team up Grimlock to defeat the Decepticon tapebots, Ravage and Lazerbeak as they try to screw up the timeline in ancient prehistoric times. Grimlock has to save the timeline? We are soooooooooooo doomed.

Adventure Game Book reviews

Ohhhhh look, look, new content up on the blogger already, you just need to click the link to go see what it's all about. As if the title doesn't give it away :D Adventure game books were a staple of the 80's for many a child growing up then. Whether it was the more in depth Fighting Fantasy series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone and an army of writer underlings and illustrators breathing life to their worlds, or the simpler but still challenging Chose your own adventure series, or any of the rival stories using similar systems, these were a great way to spend a few hours and let your imagination go wild. The link here gives you access to the reviews I've already completed, and will soon be joined by future reviews.