This week, we are going to talk about a franchise that is near and dear to my heart: G.I. Joe. You could debate whether G.I. Joe is really “kid friendly” for days, but the iteration this game is based on would certainly qualify. It had quite a bit of shooting for a kids show, yet no one ever actually got shot. You would think the Joe’s and their nemeses Cobra would be more accurate, considering their status as an elite military unit and infamous terrorist group respectively. I’m not sure parents nowadays would have been ok with their kids watching something that violent, but for me it was required viewing every Saturday morning. “The Atlantis Factor” was one of the first games I ever added to my collection. I don’t remember where exactly it came from, but I was certainly glad to have it. This is actually the second G.I. Joe on NES, but it was the only one I knew at the time. To this day, I have still never played any of the others, so my frame of ref
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