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Series - Find Your Fate - G. I. Joe

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Language:English
Publisher: Ballantine -- United States
Categories: Complexity Level : Basic (No Game System)
Format : Paperback
Genre : Adventure
Genre : Science Fiction
Licensed Property : Movie / TV Tie-In
Licensed Property : Toy Tie-In
Product Family : Find Your Fate
Target Age Group : Older Children
Writing Style : Present Tense
Writing Style : Second Person

This Find Your Fate spin-off features sometimes bizarre military adventures inspired by the famous G. I. Joe action figures and cartoon. Rather strangely, the author credits inside the third and fourth books have been accidentally reversed; the correct people are credited on the covers, however.

Gamebooks

1. Operation: Star Raider
2. Operation: Dragon Fire
3. Operation: Terror Trap
4. Operation: Robot Assassin
5. The Everglades Swamp Terror
6. Operation: Death Stone
7. Operation: Deadly Decoy
8. Operation: Death-Ray
9. Operation: Mindbender
10. Operation: Night Flight
11. Operation: Weapons Disaster
12. Operation: Jungle Doom
13. Operation: Snow Job
14. Operation: Thunderbolt
15. Operation: Time Machine
16. Operation: Poison Dart
17. Operation: Sink or Swim
18. Operation: Killer Comet
19. Operation: Tiger Strike
20. Serpentor and the Mummy Warrior

User Comments

As a kid, I had a number of these books, however, I remember almost nothing of them, reflecting their overall poor quality.

The biggest sin, in my eyes, is that, despite having a massive amount of characters to choose from, such as Duke, Roadblock, Dusty, Scarlet, etc. in each book they have you play a newly-created bland, generic teenaged operative, who usually has some skill such as "quick decision making" (shouldn't all members of the Joe team have this "skill"?), and no other talent. These series seemed bound and determined not to let pre-teens play adult characters, for whatever reasons. They could've make these instantly more interesting by, say, having you choose from a selection of Joe operatives from the start for the missions.

--Kveto

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