>you now remember the scholastic book fair
>>724351541>/v/ - Video Games
>>724351773You clearly never played Freddie Fish, come back when you've experienced the best of what video games have to offer.
I got the kingdom hearts manga from one of these. It was so cool.
>>724351541>Cars 2zoomer pic, try again later
>>724351773There are video game books in that image, thoughbeit.
>>724351541i only experinced like 2 and it was all overpriced, even those pens pencils and eracers were like 2 bucks each
>>724351541anytime i see a school environment i get a huge pit in my stomach. i'm so glad i never have to go back...
i was too poor to buy books so i only got a poster
>2004>in 2nd grade>buy a cheat code book from bookfair>sister gets really mad about this for some reason>she rips out a bunch of the pages while I'm showering
>>724351773those book fairs are a core part of my gaming history. I got the limited edition pokemon handbook and a book of gameboy cheat codes, after a huge pain in the ass in convincing my father.>durr i didn't spend all that money on games just for you to cheat through themfucking faggot.
>>724351541My elementary school would have book fairs and I remember always getting the Goosebumps and Animorphs novels.
>>724351936Until you have to take your kid into the same school you went to, with most of the same staff and then you realize that as a kid you had more freedom than you realised to tell them to go fuck themselves, where as when you're an adult they have you by the balls.
Imagine an Animorphs video game.Uncensored of course, all the violence and gore and horror from the series.Could it be done?
I remember all the black kids struggling to read and the teacher would ask the white kids to help but after awhile of them trying they'd also go back to being retarded so over time we all gave up.
>>724351840You know that fish is a girl, right?
>>724352274>take kid to school>they tell me my 5 year is trans now>if I say I disagree they will call CPS
So uh, reading any book /v/? You think it could use a videogame adaption?
My parents wouldn't give me money to buy books so I'd just not eat lunch for a few days and save my money to buy a goosebumps book
>>724352294I recently reread a couple of them and it's even better than I remembered. I'm starting to think most of the talented scifi and fantasy writers stick to young adult.
>>724352546I knew a guy who did that and then he started stabbing people with pencils and then got shot to death in a whataburger parking lot. What I'm saying is, good luck
>>724352534I'm reading the unadaptable one. Still waiting on the Judge to really bust out because this thing keeps teasing me that he's gonna do something real spicy.
>read to LOL
>>724352157>father discouraged cheating in gamesYour dad was unusually based. You were just a typical cheating little faggot.
>>724352375I had a teacher who hated me for no reason and she ALWAYS paired me with the obnoxious kid who didn't speak English.
>>724352534reading foucault's pendulum by umberto ecoI don't think somaybe a point n click adventure "inspired" by it could be made, though
>>724352964fuck off. everyone knows the good cheats give you a big head and stuff like that
>>724351541My mom wouldn’t let me get the Kingdom Hearts 2 manga because she said it was too expensive.
The scholastic book fair is like a prototype PS5. They had no books
>>724351541You now remember math blaster
Did they stop?
>>724351541>I SPYloved those books
>>724351936I'm glad I never went to one to begin with
You little niggaz. I'm so musty I bought the unlicensed Worlds of Power Ninja Gaiden novel at the book fair when I was seven and read it a billion times.
>The giant hardcover holographic Guinness World Record book that was like 50 bucks>A bunch of shovelware PC games>Hilariously overpriced toys that broke super quick>The tower of dumb little shit like pencil erasers and cheap gag glassesHome.
was too poor for that shit.i always stole erasers and shit from their displays.
>>724351541I got The Legend of Zelda: OOT manga from the book fair, and it was pretty good
>reading catalog on the way home>starts raining on walk back from bus stop>realize you weren't ordering shit because the catalogs were printed on fucking toilet paper
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>>724351541i just bought a new cheat code book every year
>>724354806can't believe they made those little boys gay furries in the sequels
>you now remember the I-spy pc games
>>724351541I got volume 1 of YatsubaTo from this in highschool.
>>724352375Looking back, its actually insane how low the average black kid's reading level was compared to the rest of the kids that go to school. I always had difficultly reading but all it took for me to improve was my parents sitting me down and forcing me to read a book to them every night for two week. After that I had no difficultly reading. Meanwhile nearly all of the black kids that I went to school with from the first grade all the way up to senior year of high school, still struggled to read sentences without taking a pause and struggling on 3+ syllable words.
>>724351541I have no idea how they got schools on board with this, like we'd even get time off class to go to the book fair just so they could sell us stuffanyway I only ever got actual books from this, nothing vidya adjacent
>>724355368same reason they'd do fundraisers like "sell 500 cases of chocolate to win a free yo-yo" and shit. school needs money
>>724351541Book publishers grifting children under the pretext that reading Goosebumps will make them smarter.
>>724352990Maybe she thought you were a good egg that can do her job for her.
MAVISFUCKINGBEACONTYPING
>>724356391Hated that shit so much I never learned how to properly type out of spite, might be my first experience of nigger fatigue
>>724351884I'm so sick of lonely "prison" gay anons that have completely lost their minds due a critical lack of pussy
Im convinced half of Croc 2 sales were made from this.I swear they'd always have 900 copies of this one fucking game.
>>724351541Did you mean to post this on /int/?>>724352375>>724355083Do you happen to live in the deep south? Because every black kid I grew up with could actually read where I grew up.
>>724354889>gay furriesThey've always been drawing Dog Man since the first book Anon.
>>724355843goosebumps was literally a jew peddling filth to childrenyou should look up the “adult” books the author wrotenow Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, THAT was a white child’s horror book
>>724351541>Green Lantern: Secret Origins next to Cars 2 bookThis is from 2011.
>>724357376no I mean during the summer of floyd they literally released a sequel which shows them in the future as a gay couple
>>724357146>Tfw I had to teach my white friend how to read in elementary school
>>724351541ah yes, my first exposure to death and black metal album covers
>>724351773>>724352157the local TT gaming store would occasionally operate a table at these events at my school and i picked up picrel
school just about destroyed my soul and I think that's by design
>>724357953wasnt it just one of em?
>>724358175school is meant to produce consumer workers, not happy or intelligent people
>>724358218Yeah, it was the blonde one.
>>724358251yea im surprised it wasnt the zesty black kid
Lol I remember tbis bullshit is what got me onto the civilization games with civilization 4 complete edition they sold at these.Almost 20 years later still playing these kind of games prob longest lasting effect from these lol.
>>724351773Vidya sucks ass now. We're going back to basics.
>>724358019Those covers were the coolest shit. Actually, all the illustrations in those books were the coolest even when I was like 7 or 8. I think they redid them cause it scared kids or something.
>>724356689same eventually learned how to properly type anyway from playing WC3 and trying to keep up with banter
>>724351541>saw The World Ends With You in a scholastic catalogue>didn't have a Nintendo DSIt would have been nice to try back then.I was content with>Geronimo Stilton>39 Clues>nifty highlighterThe better-off kids would splurge on the Guinness Book of World Records, while spendthrifts would splurge on pencil toppers.
>>724351773There were some opportunistic video game stuff there like Pokemon guidebooks or frankly horrendous story books of other licensed stuff. Think of those promotional Nester comic stuff in Nintendo Power, but worse.
>>724352081reminds me of the time my dad walked by the family computer while i was cackling at this image, and he got really mad and asked how i'd feel if it was my cat getting eaten instead of the owl
>>724351773>>724357146eat my assThis attempt at teaching kids how to sketch was shit with "now draw the rest of the fucking owl" type of a process, and promoted just tracing, but ultimately putting Mr. BING BING WAHOO!!! on it started some kids dreams on becoming an artist, if they succeeded or not. I'm sure Link got a lot of those uncracked, cringey soon to be deviantart fangirls to have a creative awakening, too.
>>724352534i have started reading warriors a few weeks agocats are cool
>>724351773I remember they had some budget CD-ROM stuff as well. My copy of SimAnt on CD came from one of these things from 23 years ago.
>>724354806>>724354889>that one time Dave apologized and unpersoned a new book because he drew a funny Chinese person in it
>>724358784>donkeykong is there for racial representation
>>724352230The Animorphs books would be just random volumes that wouldn't be worth reading unless you were invested in the series (and no one, NO ONE had the full set, not even the local library) but the covers were eye-catchers.
For me it was Oregon Trail II
i remember reading a lot as a kid, society will never recover from the nigro and zoomer problem
>>724351773vidya fucking sucks for the past 15 yearsWe're going back
>>724359232I think the problem is the teachers, I absolutely LOVED reading as a kid. Hundreds and hundreds of books and I went to tell one of my teachers I wanted to read the original dracula book or whatever and she laughs and says I didn't have the capacity to read it. This is the problem.
>>724357146>Do you happen to live in the deep south? Because every black kid I grew up with could actually read where I grew up.Leaf land. The blacks are just as dumb up north as they are in Burger land.
>>724359312>and says I didn't have the capacity to read itthe fuck does that even meanyou just need to know how to read, at most have a dictionary if you find some hard words
Hell yeah got this at one of em
>>724358784I would have fucking killed for that back then
>>724359382it's just ego if I had to guess, ego with a 9 dollar an hour paycheck no less.
i remember green versions of these type of things being free
>>724358506based, I miss playing custom games
>>724359312>I didn't have the capacity to read ithaha u r dubm
>>724351541I remember mailing them an order with a zipper bag full of pennies and being stunned when I actually got a book back
>>724352294>Imagine playing a druidok
>>724351773I bought simcity 4 from the scholastic book fair when they came to my elementary school, you dumb retard
>>724352081The evil that siblings commit is not often talked about enough.
>Using your finger to keep place and better immerse yourself in the cadence of the narrative>Fully mouthing each syllable to fully appreciate the linguistic oral structure of every word Surely you don't just sit there and barely move your eyes like some kind of cuck, right anon?
>>724360986I just looked at the pictures.
Read every book made by Sanderson. Way of Kings is and was peak
>>724351773They literally sold video games at these in my day (SimCity 2000 being one, myst another)
>reading is fun>required reading is so unfun that most adults stopped at Harry Potter and refuse to read anything longer than a tweetWhy is this?
>>724351936that's not a schoold enviroment, also why tf would you not want to go back? it was a better time
>>724351773I actually got Sonic Riders Zero Gravity and Nights on the Wii in those booklets for the fair. 20 bucks a pop too, it was really cool.
>>724351541Did they all look the exact same? This easily could have been my school.>>724351773I remember a lot of vidya books, like the video game world records books.
>First time I ever saw Amy>Parents wouldn't let me have itIt's not fair... It was educational
>>724353515>set the game to easy>teachers impressed with my high score
>>724351773>doesn't take literature as inspiration for gamingNgmi, games use to be full of reading. See re2 vs the remake
What have you guys been reading lately? I've been enjoying two books, Styx:Humanhive, and Crossroads of Oblivion
>>724361501high school was the worst time of my life. every single day i thought about killing myself because of how lonely i was, everyone hated me. it was awful.
>>724351541>Read to LOL
>>724362564For me it was middle school. Fucked me up real bad and I'll never recover.
>>724352081kek what a cunt
>>724362564hope you are doing better my niggy
>>724362765>>724352763it means read to laugh out loud
>>724352402WHAT
>>724358019Fucking Harold, man...
