Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #0000007

On Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:31:13 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 17:24:58 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 12/7/2024 12:13 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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Ho-ho-ho!

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Bah Humbug!  I really feel like there should have been a James Bond game
available today.

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Oddly enough, there aren't that many (any?) James Bond games available
for sale on Steam or GOG.* There really aren't that many James Bond
games available on PC, for that matter. Or in general. For such a
long-lasting and popular franchise, there are a lot fewer games than
you'd expect, and most of those were released on console.

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But while I can't offer you a way to get a legally licensed copy, you
CAN play a PC James Bond game here:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_James_Bond_007_-_Goldfinger_1986

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That's almost as good, right? ;-)

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Bah, a text game?!
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* In fairness, I didn't do the most intensive search. There are a
couple of James Bond-related cosmetic expansions for other games,
though

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Too bad there wasn't a PC port of Goldeneye. I know there are emulators, but still.

There were SOME James Bond games for PC. Aside from the aforementioned
Golden Eye, I also know of "License to Kill" (1989), "The Stealth
Affair" (1990), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1990), "007 Nightfire" (2002)
and "Quantum of Solance" (2008) and "007: Bloodstone" (2010). Many of
which also appeared on console.

But consoles got the a lot more games; "GoldenEye" of course was the
most famous, but the list also includes "James Bond Jr" (SNES), "The
Duel" (Genesis), "Tomorrow Never Dies", The World Is Not Enough", "007
Racing", "Everything Or Nothing", "Rogue Agent", "From Russia With
Love" and "007 Legends" (all on Playstations), in addition to a
variety of hand-held specific games.

Still, the total list is pretty sparse, given the franchise is sixty
years old and the first Bond game came out on the Spectrum. Depending
on how you count them, there are more "Might & Magic" games than Bond
titles. And almost none of them are available for purchase anymore.

Seems like wasted profits to me. Then again, a lot of them probably
have immense licensing problems since they use the likeness of actors
and whatnot, so I guess it's just not worth the effort to the
publishers.