Famous 5 Adventure Games Review (attempted)

 

A short while ago, I took a look at The Famous Five and You -- a not very good series of adventure gamebooks from the 1980s based on Blyton's books which I'd mentioned before, but wanted to go into more depth on. But would you believe Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy spawned a second series of also not very good adventure gamebooks, published around the same time? (I hope so, it's not exactly a very difficult thing to believe.) I've also mentioned these before and, well, we may as well try and look at them in more detail, in spite of the obstacle we'll run into almost immediately.

The Famous Five and You

I wanted to do a proper review of these because I've mentioned them as a shining example of "not very good adventure gamebook based on a licensed property" in one or two other posts discussing similar series, and also someone pointed out that their title is actually quite funny if you think about it. But I should warn you that that perhaps unintentional piece of passive-aggressiveness might well be the highlight of The Famous Five and You.