James Bond 007: The Duel

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James Bond 007: The Duel
James Bond - The Duel Coverart.png
European Mega Drive cover art
Developer(s)The Kremlin[3][4][5]
Publisher(s)
Composer(s)Matt Furniss[5]
SeriesJames Bond
Platform(s)
Release
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player

James Bond 007: The Duel is a 1992 action video game featuring the character of the British secret agent James Bond.[5] It was developed by The Kremlin and published by Domark for Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System video game consoles, and the Game Gear handheld game console.[3] The Mega Drive version was also released in Japan by Tengen on 14 May 1993, under the title known as 007: Shitō (００７ (ダブルオーセブン)・死闘, Daburu Ō Sebun: Shitō).[6]

Gameplay[]

Armed with a pistol, the player controls James Bond through various side-scrolling enemy bases to rescue female hostages and arm a bomb placed at a strategic point to destroy the base. Along the way, Bond must battle numerous things and familiar bosses.

Development[]

The Duel was released four years after Timothy Dalton's last outing as James Bond (in Licence to Kill), but his likeness is used in the game, most notably the opening screens, thus making it Dalton's last appearance as Bond to date. It was also the final Bond game to be released by Domark, who had released a series of Bond themed games beginning in 1985 with A View to a Kill.

It was the first Bond game not to be directly based on a movie or novel. Instead it featured an original storyline, albeit one featuring familiar villains including Jaws and Oddjob. Though The Duel's storyline was not its strong point, it did blaze a trail for future licence-holders EA, half of whose Bond output would be based on original storylines. One previous Bond game, the Delphine developed, The Stealth Affair, included an original storyline but the game was originally based on a generic Bond-style character named John Glames and only had the licence added for its US release.

The Sega Master System version is one of the few games that do not work properly on NTSC systems, although the Master System does not have region lock-out.

Reception[]

The game is often compared to Namco's Rolling Thunder series, although it was much less popular with the critics.[citation needed]

See also[]

References[]

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