Attack of nostalgia!!!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I helped clear out and repack storage stuff at my childhood home today. Among them were boxes of my old books. Among the stuff I encountered:

  • Lots of Snoopy books, including the Peanuts Books of Questions and Answers (a lot of which is probably dated by now).
  • Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake, the rather odd mix of Encyclopedia Brown mysteries and recipes.
  • Several books with the gimmick of using BASIC programs as part of their “action,” including the Byte Brothers and Micro Adventures.
  • Be An Interplanetary Spy, sci-fi spy stories where you take your path based on puzzles.
  • Labyrinthon, the “first books you can play like a video game,” though it was actually just a series of timed mazes.
  • A bunch of other stuff I’d forgotten I had.

Sadly, a lot of the stuff was damaged to varying degrees by bugs or else the fact that most of it was printed before acid-free paper, and were quite old.

Anyone remember any of this stuff? Anyone have similar experiences recently?

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Get off my lawn, you damned kid!

Translation: I don’t recognize a single thing you’re talking about. :o

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I loved Encyclopedia Brown, and the Mad Scientists Club, and the Great Brain…

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Choose Your Own Adventures and BASIC! That’s my childhood right there.

Actually, not so much mine as my friends’, but even by close association it’s enough to send me back.

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I still have some of those Interplanetary Spy books. Good times, good times.

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Were there any “Choose Your Own Adventure” titles in those boxes? I collect those.

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Actually, at least one… You Are a Superstar, or something like that.

ETA: As a kid, I left a bookmark in it noting the “worst” endings. Ah, childhood.

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OMG, Snoopy books and Encyclopedia Brown! SQUEEEEE!

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Well, if you revisit the boxes, would you consider setting aside the CYOA books and selling any of them to me, provided they’re in at least an okay condition?