Any fans of the original 1980s James Bond games here?
Silhouette Man
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Are there any fans here of the original James Bond computer games here? I'm thinking of the Amstrad etc. games from the 1980s?
Do you still have copies of these games?
Do you still play them?
Can they still be obtained on the secondhand market?
I'd love to hear your stories on this as these games really interest me!
Do you still have copies of these games?
Do you still play them?
Can they still be obtained on the secondhand market?
I'd love to hear your stories on this as these games really interest me!
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Yes, this is a subject area I'm very interested in - I believe that you can get the various games and their consoles relatively cheaply on eBay etc. nowadays.
I'd really love to hear from you!
I have a magazine from 2000 and it lists all of the Bond games from the 1980s onwards - I think LALD was just one very long boatchase!
It was...basically just avoiding stuff from what I remember...list the games and I'll let you know which I played.
As I'm not at home, I'll get back to you on that one.
Vaguely remember it in my Commodore games. Birds eye view scrolling up kinda thing
Apart from that I only remember James Pond (remember that and Robocod?)
Poss The Spy Who Loved Me was a game (later then the movie?????)
Anyhow can't remember the name it was something like Spy Agent or secret agent, think it had characters similar to Jaws and scenes underwater like Thunderball. Think first level was a parachute one
Think I had this for the Amiga 500
Yes, TSWLM was a game in the 1980s, as was LTK and AVTAK - think Raymond Benson designed some of them?
Heard of James Pond rip-off too!
You are thinking of...Spy Guy, IIRC? It was a coin-op first. Quite good fun.
There was also "Operation Stealth" which was a great point-and-click adventure. A friend and at school played it concurrently and had a blast, except for one fiddly, frustrating bit involving an elastic band :-)
My fondest memory though was Living Daylights. That's on a list of 80s games that I need to revisit, and beat. Might have to set a day aside for that!
EDIT - Sly Spy was the game. Like Golden Axe, it was one of the easier games in the arcade.
I grew up with Goldeneye on the N64, which, I still find the be all end all of Bond games. I couldn't believe how disappointed I was with Goldeneye 007 reloaded for ps3. As much as I enjoy using the Move Sharpshooter, the facility level was just really poor. So, that's why I also go back to N64!
I had no idea there were ROM based Bond games! I've heard of Commodore 64, but don't know any others. These days, it seems possible to find virtually any ROM and run it on an emulator.
The only time I've done this is an NES emulator so I could play the original Metal Gear.
Has anyone been able to find these as uploaded ROMs and an emulator? I am interested to try them out. Anyone know of any others from the era apart from the ones mentioned above?
Any other help is appreciated!
Tyler
"...It was the job we were chosen for"...
The Guy Spy game was by the makers of the Dragon's Lair games. I remember playing a demo of it on the Amiga again, and it was fun but didn't get round to playing the full version.
As for vintage James Bond games, I still have the Spy Who Loved Me, Live and Let Die, A View to a Kill, Licence to Kill (c64 and amiga). They were good fun for the time. LALD went on a bit long but was only a couple of pounds new so not too bad.
Operation Stealth was good but could never get past the maze bit. Too finicky.
I even remember a text game that was clearly a James Bond game in all but name on the original Spectrum. Had such a generic name too but can't remember it!
One game I will recommend is Covert Action by Micropose on the PC and Amiga. Such a laugh. You could place bugs on cars and track them, rewire electronics, decode messages that you had obtained from a breaking and entering session, combat parts, and travel all over the world based on clues. Again another I still have and still play to this day.
One thing has just occurred to me - wasn't there a Living Daylights game? I remember seeing the cover but never saw any game play. I'll have to look this up now!
Yes there was...it was bundled with a special Bond edition of the ZX Spectrum...
I think Living Daylights is hosted online somewhere as a Java game, emulating C64. There is certainly a Sly Spy arcade ROM for MAME too.
As always, I'd really love to hear from you!
My favorite was TLDL ... followed by LTK ...
Time flyes ...
Well I was born in 1980 and I played all of these through the 80s and 90s. Operation Stealth was a favorite - you really felt like Bond. I actually completed that one. I love point-and-click adventures from the Amiga days and so glad they're finally coming back on phones.
LALD was one of the first games I ever played, probably in 1985, but you didn't really feel like Bond. You felt like a boat. XD
James Pond was fun but Guy Spy was the real bond stuff - the shoot out on the cable car with the cinematic cut-scene deaths was sooo good.
Played Domark’s The Living Daylights back in the day (pirated MSX cassette tape) and enjoyed it immensely. Don’t remember much more, and my next Bond game was the coin-op already mentioned ripoff, and from there we go directly to N64’s GoldenEye. Ah, to have leisure time.
"The very words I live by."
In the Dalton's period, I really enjoyed TLDL and LTK games ... For the Moore era, AVTAK was awful ! Fortunatly, TSWLM game was better in any ways.