Any fans of the original 1980s James Bond games here?

Sorry, before my time. Though I think there might be some interest here at AJB.

Is there really no one on here that has played these old games?

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!

As I'm not at home, I'll get back to you on that one. 

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.

Last edited by Ward (2nd May 2013 20:14)

The game that was a decent 'homage' was Sly Spy. This was an arcade game originally and featured a cover that was a blatant copy of a pose by Timothy Dalton from the Living Daylights. I know it came out on the Amiga 500 and Atari ST. Yes it included someone looking like Jaws. I still have the game and love the music in it.
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!

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.