History Literature / RobotCommando

* InvisibilityCloak: You find out one exists by playing an arcade game of all things.

* AMechByAnyOtherName: In the interests of making it clear they count as your mech, any vehicle you can ride in is a "robot"-whatever. Including cars, construction vehicles and jets. This leads to the book going out of its way a few times to explain that human-sized, autonomous robots you fight don't use the mech-combat rules, despite also being called "robots".

* AMechByAnyOtherName: In the interests of making it clear they count as your mech, any vehicle you can ride in is a "robot"-whatever. Including cars, construction vehicles and jets, even ones that don't transform into mechs. This leads to the book going out of its way a few times to explain that human-sized, autonomous robots you fight don't use the mech-combat rules, despite also being called "robots".

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The ruler of the Karosseans is, unsurprisingly, an extremely formidable fighter himself, and drives a mech so nasty yours still takes damage every round even if you're the one who wins that exchange.

* FragileSpeedster: The Mosquito Fighter is very lightly armored, but its speed grants a huge SKILL boost to its user.

* KeystoneArmy: Surprisingly averted. There's one ending where the player sneaks in and assassinates the Karossean king before his soldiers bring the player down, but it's not acknowledged as a victory. Instead the player needs to find a way to kill him that the enemy officers will recognize as a defeat. Probably the only ''Fighting Fantasy'' book where the big threat is an invading army that doesn't say killing the leader will make the armies turn on each other and do the player's job for them.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The mechs you can find are usually pretty awesome, but the only way to get ones actually ''meant'' for combat is to find out how to get to the secret military base.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Naturally, among the dinosaurs you can fight in a mech is their king, the ''T. rex''. Including right on the cover.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The ruler of the Karosseans is, unsurprisingly, an extremely formidable fighter himself, and drives a mech so nasty yours still takes damage every round even if you're the one who wins that round.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Mechs were used mainly to make herding the beasts safer, and there are a few wild ones you can fight over the course of the book.