Choose Your Own Adventure

This is TERRIBLE, and I promise I will do everything in my power to be sure that Tyler doesn't miss out on this important cultural and imaginative experience.  Or a few things at least.

I was looking for a metaphor for a non-linear presentation (for work- so to use with imaginary high school students), and I thought "Obvs, Choose Your Own Adventure Books."  Because this is such a touchstone for me I use the phrase regularly in conversation, I am not even going to bother to explain the glory of navigating your own way through a book, I'll just assume you know how stellar that is.  And then I thought, I wonder if kids these days have even heard of that?  I was really thinking, "I bet my parents were more in-tuned to kid lit than most parents, I wonder if these were widely distributed?"  I was not even entertaining the possibility that these books might be out of print.

Google affirms that this series went out of print in 1990!  So anyone under the age of 22 (probably older) actually has no idea what I am talking about when I say Choose Your Own Adventure.  The horror!

--UPDATE-- STOP PANICKING---

I misread that article, and the books have been wildly popular through the late 90s, and as far as I can tell are still in sporadic print.  All is right with the World.