Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Choose Your Own Sanitized Adventure

Take a look at this Choose Your Own Adventure book from my youth.


Now look at the updated version.


Nafouti?  Really?  Was Nabooti too risqué?  Did it cause too many giggles?  Did the publishers worry that impressionable children might think that treasure will be found in someones butt?

And that's just the beginning of the atrocity.  What on earth happened to the cover art?  The hand drawn cover of Nabooti is detailed, uses color to create a mood, and, in short, makes the book look like something you would actually consider reading.  The computer generated cover of Nafouti is laughable.  It looks barely above the quality of something you could create in MS Paint.  It looks like the product of about a half hour's work.  And, yes, that cobra is apparently coming out of that woman's eye.

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