Mini-gamebooks in wrappers and in cereal

[CharlesX]

Does anyone remember in the '80s and '90s when some chocolate wrappers had short 12-18 comic panels mini-adventures? There were some of Count Duckula and Ghostbusters (possibly others, as well). You were supposed to scratch out the greyed out panels after choosing with a coin, most endings had you dying but there'd be one 'victory' ending and one or two 'we failed, we were rubbish' endings. I think there was a competition that if you were first to get a really good ending you were supposed to send off and if you were very lucky you'd win a prize, being into gamebooks I'd just scratch out the whole thing! Though short they were often really good, comedic, faithful to the source and both good as stories and gamebooks.

   I heard some cereal had mini-adventures as well (e.g. Back To The Future), I didn't buy or play those though.

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I remember there were a series of comic book-style gamebooks based on The A-Team given away in cereal boxes way back when. I had a couple of them at the time; no idea what ever happened to those. I'd love to see scans of these if any of them exist.

If memory serves, there's a passing reference in a Warlock magazine that some (most?) of these cereal gamebooks were written by Paul Cockburn.

Edit: Ah! Found the reference. It's in Warlock 10, the review of Sword of the Samurai:

What’s this? The slime beast writing another Fighting Fantasy book? Is he trying to take over the world? I dunno, no one ever asks me to write a book . . . except Shredded Wheat . . . sniff sniff!