It was to be based on the final scene in Moonraker, but it failed to impress so the idea was scraped. Not to kill, but to develop a James Bond video game for home entertainment systems. The high-point, at least for me personally, came in 1997 with the Nintendo 64 release of GoldenEye 007, but the story of 007's venture into the gaming world began 15 years earlier when Parker Brothers got a licence. Taking on 007 had "set them in a downward spiral".James Bond has a long history of video games. Even DominicĪnd Mark (of "Domark" fame) said at the time that
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Was released, Domark's first movie tie-in set the bar forĪll future Bond games - nothing could be worse. Viewed within the era that "A View To A Kill" Valley, where you piece together your information and finally Secrets are hidden, and finally a Silver Mine under Silicon The City Hall in San Francisco, where various Paris, where you must make contact with May Day to get a That the information you need is in three main locations. Magnate, and prevent him from carrying it out.
Hatched by Max Zorin, an unscrupulous European electronics Synopsis: Your objective is to discover what dastardly plan is being The quality of gameplay left much to be desired, even for Time, Commodore 64, Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC and MSX, but The game was compatible with platforms of the On June the 7th, 1985 Domark published their first movie In the film but opts instead to sleep in a chair watching Curiously, he gets a chance with Sutton earlier Time out: Bond gets his end away with Kimberley Jones, Mayĭay, Pola Ivanova and, right at the end of the film, Stacey Jenny Flex: "Yes, I love an early morning ride."Īn impressively high score rate on the tottyometer this Ticking toward a cataclysmic disaster, James Bond must stopīond: "Well my dear, I take it you spend quite Synopsis: Millionaire psychopath Max Zorin is the mastermind behindĪ scheme to destroy Silicon Valley in order to gain control Principal cast included the Oscar winningĬhristopher Walken and Patrick Macnee, of TV's "Avengers" fame. Wilson craftedĪ high-tech computer age plot with little to no resemblance to the origionalįleming story. Of Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. In 1985 Roger Moore returned for his seventh and last outing asĠ07 in "A View To A Kill". His life is saved by Mary Ann who turns up at the end with men Bond goes to investigate,Īnd near the crash site he discovers and underground base of Russian HQ in Fourqueux, France, is shot and killed and his documentsĬontaining Joint Intelligence stolen. Synopsis: A motorcycle dispatch rider on course to the British Secret Service
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Story adapted well to the comic series and much of the narritive is revealed though 'thought bubbles'. Gammidge set about adapting Fleming's short story. Veteran, again picked up the pen to give Bond his image and Henry
"From A View To A Kill", the comic strip. Tunic and reached down and unclipped the gun."īetween June 25th and September 9th, 1961, The Daily Express published He stuffed the gauntlet between the buttons of his He put his right gauntlet up to his teeth and pulled it The man coming up from behind slowed to fifty. "Five hundred yards, four hundred, three, So successfully as Bond." - The Times Literary Supplement "Mr Fleming's licensed assassin is in good form.įew me can have been able to mix business with pleasure Dressing up as a dispatch rider, he shoots his Russian Bond goes to investigate, and near theĬrash site he discovers and underground base of RussianĪgents. Synopsis: A motorcycle dispatch rider is shot and killed and hisĭocuments stolen. Fleming'sĨth Bond publication opened with the short story "From A View To On the 11th of April, 1960, Jonathan Cape published Ian Fleming'sĬollection of short stories entitled For Your Eyes Only. This platform style game, the first Bond video game ever, featured a mere three levels.
That same year, Domark began its series of James Bond tie-in games for Commodore, among other platforms. However Moore's final outing as Bond bore very little resemblance to Fleming's short story. Come 1985 EON Productions released "A View To A Kill", borrowing an Ian Fleming title for their film but dropping the "From" to make it more succinct.
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