[YouTube] G.I. Joe Adventure Board Game!

https://youtu.be/BchTL4I1_MU

G.I. Joe Adventure Board Game! by International Games, Inc. was released in 1982, the same year that Hasbro launched the 3 3/4" action figure toy line. It's the first of five original G.I. Joe board games released between 1982 and 2002, in addition to G.I. Joe-themed versions of Battleship and Monopoly from 2009. The game is designed for 2-4 players, but it actually includes nine player pieces, one of each of the first Joe action figures. As you'll see in the images, my game came with six stands, though only four are used in play. There are also two dice, one is used during the starting areas, while two are used to navigate the rest of the board and to determine battle outcomes. The main goal is to be the first player to reach 100 objective points.

I don't recall if I enjoyed playing the game, though I don't think I played it too much. As I say in the video, the manual doesn't seem too clear, but it is simpler than I realize. What I do remember is playing Milton Bradley's 1985 Commando Attack Game much more and having a lot of fun with that one. In the manual scans below, I rotated the "UNO" page to make it easier to read. As the fourth page of the manual, the top faces left with the area to fill in the customer's name being right side up.

Although not part of this board game, at the end of the video I showed 7 of the 20 bonus miniatures that were packaged with specially marked action figures in 1989. I mistakenly called them mini figures in the video, as I didn't realize there was an official name, and that is Micro Figures. The size of the micros makes them perfect as board game player pieces, either as a substitute for G.I. Joe games like this and Monopoly, or for any game with small plastic pieces.