Attack of nostalgia!!!

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?

Get off my lawn, you damned kid!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

OMG, Snoopy books and Encyclopedia Brown! SQUEEEEE!

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?