''Robot Commando'' is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Steve Jackson (the American game designer, rather than the series co-creator), illustrated by Gary Mayes and originally published in 1986 by

Puffin Books Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. The imprint now belongs to ...

. It forms part of Steve Jackson and

Ian Livingstone Sir Ian Livingstone (born 29 December 1949) is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of the '' Fighting Fantasy'' series of role-playing gamebooks, and the author of many books within that ...

's ''

Fighting Fantasy ''Fighting Fantasy'' is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volume in the series was published in paperback by Puffin in 1982. The series distinguished itself by mixing Choo ...

'' series. It is the 22nd in the series in the original Puffin series ().

Story

The reader takes the role of a dinosaur rancher in the country of Thalos on a distant planet who finds themself in the middle of an attack by Thalos' mortal enemy, the militaristic Karosseans. A strange weapon is unleashed which causes all of Thalos, save the protagonist, to fall into a deep sleep and leaves the land free to be invaded. Over the course of the adventure, the reader gets the opportunity to control a variety of giant robots in his battles against dinosaurs and Karossean invaders while looking for a way to drive off the Karosseans and rouse his countrymen. ''Robot Commando'' is one of the few entries in the ''Fighting Fantasy'' series to feature multiple successful endings: rampaging through the enemy camp and subsequently drawing out Minos to a robot fight (he'll be on his Supertank); entering the enemy camp straight, speaking out loud the reference number for a one-on-one duel between the rulers of both tribes, drawing out Minos to a sword fight; crafting a blue potion in the City of Knowledge, then adding a leaf of the Man Eater plant, subsequently getting a plane robot and flying straight in to the storm above the City of Adoration.

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