Eps 12: James Bond Just Pirated a Copy of James Bond: The Duel
| Host image: | StyleGAN neural net |
|---|---|
| Content creation: | GPT-3.5, |
Host
Byron Dunn
Podcast Content
Released Thursday, the latest James Bond movie has received plenty of attention from press outlets and social media, creating a gaping hole for cybercriminal actors. While James Bonds pirated numbers are not mind-blowing, surely bringing an international premiere closer is a good thing. In Australia, Bond fans will need to be even more patient with their planned premiere at the middle of November.
While Hollywood is usually pretty worried about pre-release leaks, the interest in pirated copies of the movie has been relatively mild. That has not stopped No Time To Die from being leaked to pirate sites shortly after its release to international cinemas, and before its U.S. theatrical release.
After 2 years, I have finally decided to TAS the game, even if not everybody liked it in some way. They gave it a poor review, but I was still eager to play this game since I love most Bond movies and the graphics looked vibrant and colourful. I recall seeing the review of this game back in 1993 in an old Mega magazine by Future Publishing.
Back when I was growing up, thanks to piracy, every cartridge contained as many as 16 games, and I played every single one of them whenever I got bored. Parker Brothers released a decent action game on the Atari 2600, in which you played one of the cool cars from James Bond instead of a character. Developed by the Kremlin--in fact, British publisher Domarks internal development team--it is the only James Bond game to come to the Sega platforms.
The main publisher of many James Bond games in this period was British publisher Domark. Before Nintendo published James Bond 007 and Goldeneye 007, there was really no clear-cut publisher of James Bond games. While most probably remember the glory days of when Nightfire was all the rage, or maybe even tried their hand at something like Bloodstone 007, there were a lot, lot more James Bond games.
It was also the last Bond game released by Domark, which had released a number of Bond-themed games dating back to 1985, aiming for assassination. The Sega Mega Drive version was also the first Bond game to not directly draw from the films or novels; it featured an original plot. The games plot was not a selling point of the Sega Mega Drive version, but it did set the tone for future license-holder Electronic Arts, whose Bond products were half set on original plots.
One earlier Bond game, Delphines developed The Stealth Affair, included an original plot, but one earlier Bond game was initially based on a generic Bond-style character named John Glames, and had the license added for his U.S. release alone. Although the Sega Mega Drive version was released 4 years after Timothy Daltons final James Bond outing, Licence to Kill , its artwork used his likeness, particularly on its opening screens, making this the final time Daltons had appeared as James Bond. Like many games from Segas Mega Drive release era, both the 8-bit and 16-bit versions of The Duel mirrored the James Bond sprite for reasons of memory size and efficiency.
While none of the games four levels are based on a particular Bond movie, The Duel does make use of past James Bond villains as minibosses who can hinder Bonds progress. While the James Bond theme has been said by some to sound a bit fart-ya in this game, the rest of the score is stellar, particularly the Wave Trouble track which highlights level one. In the 16-bit version, James Bond must also rig up a bomb at the end of every level, and then find an exit before it explodes.
If this game came out only slightly later, we probably would have got the first appearance of the Pierce Brosnan-produced James Bond games here. Free Progressive Slots Online No Download It was meant to be the full reboot of the James Bond franchise -- taking place right at the beginning of his career as a secret agent -- and 2006s Casino Royale was executed so well it ended up almost topping our list of Bond movies, with three having no balls at all, and one offering this game alone. Since then, nobody has stepped up to the plate to return James Bond to big-budget licensed games.
The industry has been suggesting that if there is any film that can get people going again to movies during a pandemic, it is MGM/Eons No Time To Die. There were concerns that since Bond was older, he may not pull in the numbers that he did, but audiences turned out, and kept doing so, until the film reached $774 million worldwide, $613 million of which was in foreign markets . Halloween Kills, following a debut at the Venice film festival, might have suffered under the shadow of MGM/Eons No Time To Die, coming in with $39.7M from abroad, only 30% of its worldwide total .