Operation: Robot Assassin

G.I. Joe: Find Your Fate #4

by Megan Stine, Henry William Stine, Carl Cassler (Cover Illustrator)

The GI Joe Team is the last hope for preventing world chaos in OPERATION: ROBOT ASSASSIN.

Military intelligence has learned that Cobra plans to assassinate all the world leaders and diplomats gathering for summit talks in Switzerland. Their weapon: an amazing, computer-controlled robot, so lifelike it can be disguised as one of the leaders, staff, or security guards.

Your skill in defusing bombs as well as other explosive situations has earned you the code name Hotshot. Now you must choose which team to join - Wild Bill, Duke, Bazooka, and others who will attempt to infiltrate Cobra, or Snow Job, Quick Kick, Fling and their cohorts, who will visit hotels and villas to see what they can learn.

In your quest to locate and diffuse the robot before it unleashes its devastating power, there are many choices to make - and each decision is up to you! The whole world will discover how skilled you really are, Hotshot as you FIND YOUR FATE.

Genres: Gamebooks

90 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1985

About the author

Megan Stine is the Editor-in-Chief of Real U Guides and the author of more than 100 books for young readers including Trauma-Rama, an etiquette book for teenagers published by Seventeen magazine, and several titles in a series based on the popular 1990’s television series Party of Five. A frequent writer of books in the enormously popular Mary-Kate and Ashley series, she is the best-selling author of Likes Me, Likes Me Not and Instant Boyfriend. She has worked with CBS and ABC in developing comedy and drama television pilots, and has written comedy material for a well-known radio personality in New York.

When she isn’t writing, she is a portrait and fine art photographer and a contributing photographer for the Real U series of guides.

Reviews

[Brannigan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I grew up on these cartoons and loved them. I’ve tried some of the supplemental fiction. This was my first CYOA GIJoe book. It wasn’t as good as the fiction.

The reader plays a made up Joe in each book and decide what everyone does. Which seems very lame as a fan who would love to “be” a real Joe. Also these made up Joes are leading Duke and other high ranking leaders so it’s weird. The inside art is truly horrible. It looks like a six year old won a contest and they used his art for the inside.

All that ragging over with it’s still fun for a fan but I don’t think they hold up well.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better written than I was anticipating, given that it's essentially a knockoff of the choose your own adventure books. I was also interested that there were actually several different plots as opposed to one plot that had several different outcomes. I suppose it's probably easier to write the former.