007 in Pixels: 15 Weeks of James Bond Games

I'm a lifelong fan of the James Bond film franchise. The Bond films have always been the perfect mix of action, suspense, mild comedy, and sex appeal. Even the worst of the Bond films like Moonraker and Die Another Day have something appealing to them. Unfortunately, virtually none of those elements made it into the first Bond game on the Atari 2600, simply called James Bond 007. Naturally, the Atari 2600 couldn't translate 1983's Octopussy or 1985's A View to a Kill... or any of the movies for that matter. The technology was just too limited. So, they built the game around one recognizable element, the heavily armed Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me. The whole game is a scrolling shooter in an armed car. It is basically a straight rip-off of Moon Patrol. That shouldn't be so bad; after all, Moon Patrol was a good arcade game that got a decent adaptation on the 2600 the year prior. Unfortunately, James Bond 007 couldn't even count as a decent Moon Patrol rip-off. It just sucks. [READ FULL REVIEW]