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The Living Daylights | |
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Publisher(s) | Domark |
Designer(s) | Richard Naylor |
Series | James Bond |
Platform(s) | Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum |
Release | 1987 |
Genre(s) | Run and gun |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Living Daylights is a run and gun video game adaptation of the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights. It was the second Bond game published by Domark following 1985's poorly received A View to a Kill: The Computer Game.
The game was released for all major platforms at the time and developed by De Re Software (Atari 8-bit), Exasoft (BBC Micro), Sculptured Software (Commodore 64) and Walking Circles (Amstrad CPC/PCW, MSX, ZX Spectrum) from a design by Richard Naylor of Domark.
Legacy
The game was re-released as a light gun shooter on various cassette tapes with the ZX Spectrum 007 Action Pack. The plot was greatly rewritten, and explained on narration audiocassettes by Desmond Llewelyn as Q.
See also
References
- Andy Lane, Paul Simpson (2002). The Bond Files: An Unofficial Guide to the World's Greatest Secret Agent. Virgin Books. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-7535-0712-4.
- ^ "The James Bond Dossier". Computer and Video Games. No. 68. EMAP. 15 May 1987. p. 78. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- Nostalgia Nerd (2020-07-19). That Time Amstrad Casually Rewrote James Bond. YouTube.
External links
- The Living Daylights at MobyGames
- Movie Game Database - The Living Daylights
- MI6 :: James Bond 2007 Video Games - The Living Daylights
- The Living Daylights at IMDb
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