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Excellent Ernesto Cousins 3/Wrestlevania: A Play-Your-Way Book (Midnight Arcade Series #2)

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Excellent Ernesto Cousins 3/Wrestlevania: A Play-Your-Way Book (Midnight Arcade Series #2)

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In this next installment of the new play-your-way adventure tale, players encounter a haunted arcade on a deserted boardwalk. Upon entering, the reader finds themself absorbed into one of two video games in which the reader determines the course of action, ultimately controlling whether they live . . . or die!

During a late-night stroll on your boring summer beach vacation, you discover a derelict video arcade managed by a ghostly attendant. Presented with a magical game token, you select one of two games you wish to play, the Excellent Ernesto Cousins 3 or Wrestlevania. Once you place the token in the slot, you have to make choices to advance through the games, and your decisions control whether you beat the game—or die.

Both games feature unique challenges and life-like game play that will delight readers, and the most important choice in either game for those now trapped inside them, is the one that will keep them alive.

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ISBN-13:	9781524784317
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/04/2018
Series:	Midnight Arcade Series , #2
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

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Known for his popular online role-playing game Sword and Backpack, Gabe Soria has written books for Penguin, including Regular Show's Fakespeare in the Park and Shovel Knight's Digger's Diary. He has also written several comic books for DC Comics, including Batman '66, and collaborated with friend Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys on The Murder Ballads comic book. This is his first series of original fiction.

Kendall Hale is a cartoonist from Wisconsin whose work has varied from animated character designs to commercial advertising. He has produced work for Nick Jr., Bento Box, Skippy Peanut Butter, and Sandman Studios. He has also taught classes for Brigham Young University. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his pet rock, Rock.

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Following Crypt Quest/Space Battles (2018), a second pair of arcade games played out in a branching, choose-your-own-adventure format.Stumbling into a seemingly abandoned arcade, "you" choose between two entirely independent games. One requires wrestling a werewolf, a two-headed "Frankenwrestler," and Dracula, along with battling giant spiders and other hazards in a creepy castle. The other is a "Super Mario"-style quest involving exploration of deserted Groovy Gardens, a car race, and an undersea encounter with a hostile "Noctopus" while gathering tokens and other prizes. The games are chopped up into passages that vary from a sentence or two to six or seven pages, and they are arbitrarily interwoven, with, usually, several discrete chunks per page. Some bits are tagged with multiple choices, but most end either in "your" sudden demise or directions to turn to a designated page to see what happens next or loop back to make another choice. Both games require paging back and forth hundreds of times, but they do play out, eventually, to a victory with an option to start the other or be deposited outside the arcade. In Hale's sketchy cartoon illustrations, the player's avatar wears a dress, but (human) players and characters are all white or masked.Still flipping monotonous, as well as lacking the loud sound effects and frantic pacing actual arcade games offer. (Fantasy. 11-13)

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