Bond games. James Bond games. Agent 007 has had twenty-four feature films🌃 oveꦇr the multiple decades with a twenty-fifth coming in the future; all featuring different actors in the role and adventures of many different styles and tones. It was the same with video games.
With a series as successful and massive as the James Bond franchis🏅e, videogame tie-ins were only an inevitability, and just like the movies, the games went on to spawn their own expansive history and roster. Some were direct adaptations of the films wh🦩ile others created their own unique stories, allowing the developers to spread their wings.
25 ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ🌌ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚJames Bond 007 (1983)
Developed by Parker Brothers for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and the Commodore 64, the first James Bond game ever made was based somewhat on the Diamonds Are Forever novel by Ian Fleming.
However, the game itself is nowhere near as complex or action-packe🌺d as the book or the movie it's based on. It's simply you controlling Jam🍨es Bond in his trusty car with a sidescrolling shooter game, destroying enemies, avoiding hazards, and with impressive graphics for an Atari game. Simple yet effective.
24 ꧙ A View To A Kill (1985)
Adding more diversity 📖to the gameplay, this game released two years later featured three different missions that had platforming, driving, and elements of puzzle-solving. Sounds perfect for a James Bond game, right?
Unfortunate๊ly, while this game for the MSX, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64 sports some impressive music and concepts, was plagued by some of the most awful, unintuitive, and broken controls that likely will make any nꦡew players turn it off after five minutes.
23 🌞 James Bond 007: A View To A Kill (1985) 🐬
Another game based on the Roger Moore film, this one embraces a Zork-styled interactive story game for the Apple II, MS-DOS, and the Macintosh that starts the player off in the Siberian 🙈mountains trying to find Agent 003.
Basically, the game features the same addictive qualities of games like Zork but it a🤡lso features everything that can make that game frustrating. Objectives are not always 100% clear and it requires vast amounts of trial and error with many restarts. A fun game but newer gamer discretion is definitely advised.
22 𝕴 James Bond 007: Goldf♔inger (1986)
From the same developers as A View To A Kill, it's the same exact kind of interactive story adventure game based on the Sean Connery film of the same name with all the sa꧙me qualities and frustrations as the previous game.
So if someone really enjoys these kinds of games and wants another game to play after beating A View To A Kill, Goldfinger is the next game to boot up and enjoy.
21 ꧃ James Bond: The Living Daylights (1987)
This game comes from Domark, the team behind the A View To A Kill platforming game mentioned previously. The Living Daylights swaps up ♊the game൩play and controls to a simpler sidescrolling shooter rather than copying what they did before.
This change makes the game much better with controls that are easier to understand, the gameplay itself is fun yet challenging, and everything overall 🍃fee🌞ls like an upgrade from the developers' previous attempt at a Bond game.
20 𒅌 James Bond: Live And Let๊ Die (1988)
Domark strikes again, only this time the game was originally intended as a game called Aquablast that had nothing to do with the James Bond franchise; one thing led to another, and Aquablast somehow was rebranded into Live And Let Die.
That history lesson is to explain why this game seems to have nothing Bond-like about it. It's just an average speed boat game with the player speeding down the river, avoiding ha✅zards, and shooting things. It's a forgettable title.
19 𒅌 007: Licence To Kill (1989) ꦺ
It would seem that Domark were the go-to developers for James Bond games and it would also seem that they weren't given the best amount of time to finish a project. Licence To Kill is a fun game but it suffer🍨s from being criminally sh💛ort.
Swapping to yet another style of gameplay, Domark made this game an overview shooter. It features some nice graphics but th💟e lack of music makes the already repetitive gameplay feel dull, and the fou𝔉r levels can be beaten in minutes.
18 James Bond: The Spy Who Love🅷d Me (1990)
Shocking, Domark made this next entry which once again changes up the gameplay to an overhead vertical racing/shooter. Domark did not seem to learn from the past mistakes or were yet again un𒐪der a time constraint to put out a Bond game once a year.
The graphics are adequate, the music is decent, but poor controls return once again leading to many frustrations in the gameplay. While not awful, everything about the game just feels so mediocrꦇe and less Bond-ish than previous games; it is not worth checking out.
17 ♓ James Bond 007: The Stealth Affair (1990)
A new developer finally gets in on the James Bond craze with a point and click adventure game in the same vein as Monkey Island or King's Quest games. It also decides to do something originꦰal instead of just basing itself on one of the movies or books.
The Stealth Affair by Interplay has appealing graphics, an🐻 intriguing set of puzzles and mysteries, along with fun gameplay. However, Bond fans might be confused since the character works for 🌞the CIA in this story and if one does not care for point and click games, this game does nothing different to change that.
16 🍌 💦 James Bond Jr. (1992)
Based on an animated spin-off of the character about his nephew✅, James Bond Jr. is technically two different games on two different consoles that follow the same story.
The version on NES mixes platforming and puzzle elements in a much better way than previous games attempted while the SNES counterpart is more of a shooter game. The SNES version is 🧔often c🍷onsidered the superior version for having less than original gameplay but fun nonetheless.