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'Choose your path' videos turn Youtube into game platform
Children of the ‘80s will fondly recall the "Choose Your Own Adventure" gamebooks, a series of interactive tales that let readers control the direction of the story by periodically choosing one of several plot paths. Starting with 1979's "The Cave of Time," the prolific series captured imaginations and spawned countless clones over its impressive 20-year run, earning all sorts of pop-culture cred along the way.

And now, it's finding new life in the unlikeliest of places: Youtube.

Thanks to some incredibly creative (and seriously dedicated) users, 'choose your path' movies are cropping up more and more frequently on the online video megasite. Trading pages for page views, the premise is simple: you watch a video, and towards the end have to decide what happens next, which will then take you to a new video that continues the story. That can take a while, too -- some of the larger tales span over 60 options.

Here are five Youtube adventures worth choosing:
 
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Late Bloomer - Short Film - Sundance Film Festival


“We all saw it scrawled across the blackboard the second we stepped into Miss Lovecraft’s class…”
A disturbing and darkly humorous commentary on burgeoning adolescence and coming to terms with “the other” that is the opposite sex, Craig MacNeill’s short film, “Late Bloomer“, devotes a horrific (and hilarious) thirteen minutes to the obscene revelations that stem from biological discovery. Written and brilliantly narrated in true Lovecraftian style by Clay McLeod Chapman, this tale of a “7th grade sex-ed class gone horribly wrong” chronicles the destruction of innocence in pulpy prose worthy of the old gentleman himself.

How to describe these grotesque mockeries of natural law? Clearly hovering at the edge of sanity, both awe-struck and terrified by the frenzied hormonal horrors to which he has become an initiate, the film’s narrator recounts the events of that eldritch classroom in an eerie, quavering voice while a murky, droning soundtrack by One Ring Zero provides appropriate ambiance. It is said that MacNeill was inspired to make “Late Bloomer” while shooting a documentary on the film’s writer; one cannot view the result without imagining the horrors to which that pale, untried youth may have borne witness in the classroom.
 
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Granville57 said:
The only thing missing from this one is Wile E. Coyote himself.

Ya' kinda have to see it to believe it.

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That is a great video. I emailed it to a few friends, one of whom played D1 Football and in the CFL. His response......

You see this every weekend in the NFL. He should know that you can't arm tackle one of these things. Man up and wrap it up!
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