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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:


>> Ho-ho-ho!

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

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.

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

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








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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