
I never was into G.I Joe as a kid, so I never played the games either. I do remember the cartoon, but mostly the lessons at the end because I'd only watch it waiting for the next show to come on (usually Transformers). "Now you know, and knowing is half the battle." What's the other half of the battle?
I was more into Transformers myself. We never got a good Transformers game on the NES (I hear the one in Japan was awful). But luckily, many many years later, we got a good Transformers game in the form of Fall of Cybertron.