The Best and the Worst of James Bond Video Games Part 1 

More Calvin Dyson collaborations, please! You two are the best Bond RU-vidrs

James Bond nightfire was incredible i grew up with that game playing with my dad i have a lot of amazing memories as a kid from it

Goldeneye was a N64 classic I'll never forget.

You two are brilliant, I rely enjoy your back & forth. Love the debates & the banter. I’m a similar age as David but I was Commodore 64 kid. I was 23 when the Golden Eye N64 & I loved it. Great reviews 💥💥🔫

I’m so glad that y’all are talking about these. I grew up playing Goldeneye with my Dad. It’s been way too long since a good bond game has come out - I loved the online multiplayer on Quantum of Solace

I love this so much, seeing y'all work together

Great video as always! GoldenEye N64 is still one of my favorite Bond games of all time! An upcoming "fan remake" called 'GoldenEye 25', will be released in August 2022 on PC and is definitely worth checking out! GoldenEye: Reloaded from 2011 with Daniel Craig as Bond, is still an amazing remake to this day, but still doesn't replace the original N64 game. And don't ever forget Sean Connery as the voice of Bond in the 'From Russia With Love' video game from 2005. It is also important to mention gems like '007: Agent Under Fire' from 2001 and '007: Nightfire' from 2002 etc. There's so MUCH to talk about the subject, because there's so much history and depth.

Keep up the collaborations guys! Calvin - I miss your welcoming “Hello Mr. Bond fans”

For me Nightfire, everything or nothing and from Russia with love was my favs agent under fire was quite fun too.

I can't wait to hear part 2 since you can tell Calvin is getting Enthusiastic over the History of the earlier Bond games

My two favourite RU-vidrs ever to talk about bond

Calvin is the best! Been watching him since 2014.

Hate to be pedantic but that wasn’t the Atari 2600 version of the game - it was the Atari 5200, which had much better graphics capability than the much-more popular 2600.

James Bond and video games are my things. There a lot of James Bond content out there but not nearly enough on the video games. Thank you for doing this subject and I look forward for part 2.

A 52 year old who loves Bond games.. you sir are a legend. Let’s be friends lol

Thanks for mentioning the View To A Kill platformer. I'd forgotten I'd played it as a kid, and it awoke buried memories! Was kinda fiddly, but also so great to get close to walking through a Bond movie.

Great content as usual David. It was nice to revisit so many of these, including GoldenEye on 64. A true classic that so many of us remember fondly.

This is so good, it’s an aspect of the Bond universe I know very little about so it’s great to see these old games. I played the QoS game which o liked but in rubbish at games. Spent a lot of time in corners with M repeating stuff at me 🙄😆

My favourite game was EON. The game had a Hollywood cast, Pierce was brought back to voice Bond. Richard Kiel was back as Jaws! Great fight physics, locations are awesome. There's a reference to Max Zorin as well. I had the PS2 version.

David..your video intro always puts a huge smile on my face. :)

Boy,now i feel old here watching you guys talk! I remember playing all these games-my first being that exact Atari game David!(and at the time I thought it was great lol) After that,I'm pretty sure I've played most of these games all the way up to 007 Legends!(which I liked but I know Calvin hated!) I wish they would make them again -they were so important to bringing a younger fan base to 007! Maybe for the 60th anniversary?!

Great to see you two together on the screen. Never had a N64, but played the death out of TWINE on the PS1 and Nightfire on the PS2. Good times!

As a kid I had an C64 and an Amiga. I remember playing The Living Daylights, Live and let Die, License to kill and The Spy who loved me. TLD was to hard and repetetive. Lald was repetetive but fun (and had nothing to do with the movie), LtK was to short but fun ... but´I absoluley LOVED TSWLM on the Amiga. I think most people think TSWLM is just about the driving levels in the lotus because every review just covers the driving levels. Those are the first two levels and I guess a lot of people did not finish those levels and never knew what would follow: The underwater-Lotus sequence, the shooting in the Lipaurus, the jet-ski ande the finals level on Atlantis. For it´s time it was a great game.

Lovely stuff, looking forward to part 2!

I still have an Atari 520 STE with Live and Let Die and Licence To Kill to go with it. And Operation Stealth, the original game, in french. Since you said you want to play the games in their original environnement, I'll sell them to you Calvin.

I remember getting Goldeneye along with the Nintendo 64 console for Christmas 1997. I had loads of fun playing multiplayer with friends plus I enjoyed unlocking the cheats for single player. My James Bond fandom was through the roof at this point, so playing the game over and over never got old. Plus the Nintendo 64 really got me into console gaming, since I had only played a handful of NES games in the past. @Calvin Dyson, the reason for Goldeneye the video game coming out two years after the movie was due to the game originally being set for release on the SNES. When Nintendo canceled support for the SNES, and began working on the Ultra 64(the developmental name for the Nintendo 64), Rare shifted towards making the game for the new system. As result, the game missed out on being a tie in to the movie. Prior to this period, the only other game that was James Bond themed that I played was the NES version of James Bond Jr.(THQ published two games based on the cartoon. One for the NES, which was a platforming action game and the SNES version mentioned in the video above). The NES game is pretty good, despite having to be played twice in a row to see the proper ending. Despite never beating the game myself, I enjoyed playing it.* I have also played James Bond 007 for the Gameboy(a very fun game that is similar to the Legend of Zelda series but with the James Bond license), The World is Not Enough for the Nintendo 64 ( a underrated game, with some nice improvements from the Goldeneye formula despite it being published by Electronic Arts and not Rare) Agent Under Fire(Which I did not care for. The plot, and graphics seemed really low quality despite the game being based on a major film series). Plus, I played Nightfire first for both the GameCube and Gameboy Advance. NightFire (One of the first Gamecube games I ever owned, My friends and I really liked the multiplayer mode since it gave you some fun options) Everything Or Nothing (quite possibly the closest to date a video game came to copying the feel of the feature films), Goldeneye: Rogue Agent which was an interesting idea but poorly done. Plus, parts of the game felt more like a science fiction story than something from James Bond. Also, the difficulty level even on the easiest setting was really tough, the closer I got to the end. From Russia With Love( I enjoyed it despite the flaws present), Quantum Of Solace(Wii version which I recommend fans avoid at all costs) Goldeneye 2010 (a fun update to the original Nintendo 64 game, I wish that it had some unlockable content like the original had), Bloodstone (The Nintendo DS versions which is pretty decent) and 007 Legends (which I got rid of since I could never get past the first level). * I think that I might be one of few people that enjoyed James Bond Jr. I still own the action figures, the tie in novels, the comic book tie ins and I am still waiting for someone to release the show on DVD/ Blu Ray. Many other forgotten cartoons have been released on DVD/ Blu Ray so why not this one?

Nightfire was my first James Bond-Experience! I really need to buy me a PlayStation 2 again and play it.

I did find an online emulator that has the Sega Master System version of the 2600 Bond game.

Born in '87. James Bond: The Stealth Affair was my first Bond game. Never beat it because of some stupid rubber band you had to find at the end and you had to use it to defeat the villain. Had fun, though.

Rockstar should definitely do a Bond game.

Goldeneye is a classic. Even though I only played it on Switch. 😂

The Duel also got a release for the Sega Game Gear, sadly it was an exclusive to European customers. It was also really short with only four levels. That said, I have been a Nintendo fan my whole life having had an NES and a Gameboy during my childhood. The Gameboy despite the technical limits of the system still had some fun games produced for it (especially licensed stuff) and I still play many Gameboy/Gameboy Color/ Advance games today.

Amazing video david. So cool you covered the bond games.

David, if that was an Atari cartridge, it was for the 5200.

Spooky, just last night I found lots of n64 Goldeneye promotional posters in the back of my wardrobe.

It’s funny you guys just posted this. I’m in the process of editing a very similar video right now! It will be interesting to see how your perspectives and mine align or differ. For me, Goldeneye is still king.

It would be nice if you could talk a little bit more about the Licence to Kill game apart from it being action orientated it did seem to thread with film quite nicely even though you could finish it in half an hour.

The early Bond games were crap even for the time. I remember playing them and never finishing because they were so bad. Goldeneye was the first proper James Bond game and was revolutionary for the time.

It really bums me out they haven’t made a new game in so many years. The last one, Legends, wasn’t great but I really loved Blood Stone.

Best Bond video game is easily GoldenEye. It was a centerpiece of my childhood. We even had the rumble vest despite it being incredibly ridiculous. Everything about the game was revolutionary: the multiplayer, the AI, the way the campaign changed based on the difficulty you selected. I also had some great times playing Nightfire multiplayer with friends. Everything or nothing was a gem as well. I feel like all the games went downhill after that. FRWL was good but after that....mostly garbage cash-grab half-ass efforts.

If theres ever gonna be a new bond game you have to do a walkthrough david.

There was a, I think, Atari game called Sly Spy that was heavily Bond inspired that might be worth looking into.

CALVIN!!!

When will they make another Bond game? With all the new leaps they have made in technology in games they can make something really cool! I always thought a Telltale choice based/ point and click style videogame would be a good way to go for 007. Whatever they do, they should do something original and set in it's own world and not tied to the movies

As a PC gamer, I always found Goldeneye to be terribly overrated. The multilayer was a fun distraction, but it was never the game I suggested to be played when visiting my friends that owned an. N64. I really liked Everything or Nothing at the time. Very cinematic.

A open world bond game rpg, where you can fully customize the bond character model, first person. Whole game in the same vien as the new cyberpunk game that is coming out. On ps5 that would be amazing...Original story keep away from the movies like what the arkham and spiderman ps4 game's are doing

Goldeneye64 was love. Goldeneye64 was life.

I played word games like Zork, (on a commodore 64) then Goldeneye with my kids. (The games were for me because the kids were so young). Before those I would go to a friend’s place and play Atari pong!

David, do you have the boxed ZX Spectrum The living daylights box ????

Hope we get a new bond game some time soon

My first and best James Bond game was definitely GoldenEye N64 which I absolutely loved. My worst was definitely 007 Legends Xbox 360, the idea to mish mash Bond movies into a video game was good but the execution of that idea was poor. 👍🏻

TheBondExperience

Good idea for video

I aways wished that a Bond game was made using the GTA Vice City Engine.

From Russia with Love was great!

Hey David! Love the show! You can find most of the old games available on pc now on a website that is specialise on keeping older games alive! www.myabandonware.com you can search James Bond in the search box at the top right! (the action game A view to kill is also available if you search by its name.) (To play the game files you will need an emulator, for Commodore 64 you can use the website virtualconsoles.com/online-emulators/c64/ and load the files directly on there.) If you got any questions it's always a pleasure, cheers!

David, sorry this question isn't game related,,,, but have you heard the rumors that NTTD is almost 3 hours long? Thoughts?

The best bond single player game is 007 Blood Stone.

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Holy shit dude, turn down the volume on your intros.

Wow, Ben Shapiro!