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 / Adapted Property : Movie / TV Tie-In Licensed / Adapted 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.

Collections

G.I. Joe Box Set #1
G.I. Joe Box Set #2

Gamebooks

1. Operation: Star Raider (1985)
2. Operation: Dragon Fire (1985)
3. Operation: Terror Trap (1985)
4. Operation: Robot Assassin (1985)
5. The Everglades Swamp Terror (1986)
6. Operation: Death Stone (1986)
7. Operation: Deadly Decoy (1986)
8. Operation: Death-Ray (1986)
9. Operation: Mindbender (1986)
10. Operation: Night Flight (1986)
11. Operation: Weapons Disaster (1986)
12. Operation: Jungle Doom (1986)
13. Operation: Snow Job (1987)
14. Operation: Thunderbolt (1987)
15. Operation: Time Machine (1987)
16. Operation: Poison Dart (1987)
17. Operation: Sink or Swim (1987)
18. Operation: Killer Comet (1987)
19. Operation: Tiger Strike (1987)
20. Serpentor and the Mummy Warrior (1987)

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