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Zeus posted...

I thought you hated the term and concept of 90s kids, yet here you are using it >_>

You might be confusing me with someone else - I've never had a problem with the term or concept of "90s kids". In fact, I've argued that it's a far more accurate and meaningful demographic than trying to break down people into the old "Gen X/Gen Y/Millennial" categories, because those are more rooted in older generational cohorts, and I don't think those apply as well any more in the age of television-spurred pop culture and rapid turnover.

Breaking people into 20-year or 30-year generational groups worked well enough in the past when the pace of life and current events moved slower, but is far less useful in the modern world where worldview can entirely shift in the span of a single decade. At the moment defining people more as "80s kid/90s kid/00s kid/etc" seems to be a more effective breakdown (and in the future, we may have to granulate that even more down to, say, "early XX kid/late XX kid" if the pace of cultural shift grows even faster due to the Internet - conversely, the Internet and diversification of pop culture in general may render generational cohorts almost meaningless as every individual sort of grows up in their own self-selected bubble of awareness).

On the other hand, I DO shit on "90s kids" all the time in the sense that they seem to be the largest concentration of people active online in social media spaces, whereas almost all of my childhood nostalgia is rooted in the 80s. So every time someone goes "Ooooh, look, nostalgia!", I'm usually like "Ehh, fuck you, junior."



Zeus posted...

Did you also just skip the Fear Street series? Seems like you would have been *right* in that demo, considering it was aimed a bit older (overlooking that Stine generally shied from mature situations) and came out a bit sooner.

I feel like it wasn't as mainstream as Goosebumps became, so in turn it wasn't really as culturally ubiquitous, and thus, easier to miss. That, combined with the fact that I was never really into horror all that much (I went hard into fantasy pretty early and just never came back, at least were fiction is concerned), means it wasn't really on my radar until it was already too late for me to really appreciate it.

I feel like my "young horror phase" pretty much started and ended with this:

http://www.amazon.com/Still-More-Tales-Midnight-Hour/dp/0590420275
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_for_the_Midnight_Hour



Zeus posted...

Otherwise I'm not sure what CYOAs he wrote, although I'm guessing it was a knockoff series? I can't seem to find anything listed in his bibliography.

I said "CYOA-style" books. As in books that have the "make a choice and turn to page X" mechanic, but not necessarily books that were released under the actual CYOA brand.

There were literally hundreds of series that followed that model (which is why http://gamebooks.org exists to catalogue all of them), and I personally owned (and still own) books from dozens of different series (I have a bookcase with about 4 full shelves just devoted to them, and they were like 98% of my childhood book buying from age 9 to around 12).

In R.L. Stine's specific case, I literally listed links directly below that sentence that link to pretty much every book like that he wrote. Conversely, I could also have posted this:

http://gamebooks.org/Person/644

His brother and sister-and-law also used to write those kind of books as a pair around the same time:

http://gamebooks.org/Person/648


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