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. 

Actually just remembered a REAL James Bond rip off from Ocean (remember that company - did loads of movie tie ins)

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

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.

Makes me wanna buy a commodore again!!!