That Time Amstrad Casually Rewrote James Bond | Nostalgia Nerd

[@Nostalgianerd]

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[@RoxanneBarbelo]

Living Daylights is my favorite Bond movie. It came out when I was a kid and I loved everything about it.

[@lonewolfandcub668]

The prices, people complain now, but think of inflation the prices were insane, we get things much cheaper now.

[@stephenelliott7071]

Desmond Llewelyn came across as a true gentleman when I met him at a book signing.

[@richardcoles9985]

I got one of these in around 1993 from Trago Mills near Newton Abbot. I was so excited. I was a massive Speccy fan and still had a 48k+. I knew it was older tech but just soooo wanted a +2A. Enjoyed the games but continued to use the machine to learning coding. Took me to a Computer Science degree in Manchester in the early 2000s and I know head up a Computer Science department in a secondary school. Thanks, Q!

[@kdisley]

Obviously, the inconsistencies in the plot were down to certain details being changed for reasons of national security... you just didn't have the Above Top Secret clearance to be told the whole story

[@stormthrush37]

Funny sidenote some may not be aware of: Timothy Dalton who was playing 007 here, a few years later went on to play Neville Sinclair in Disney's the Rocketeer.

[@Hiraghm]

Was that later than his Bond films? The Rocketeer is one of the few movies I actually bought off of KZbin.

[@scottrich976]

And Skinner in Shawn of the dead !

[@HuntersMoon78]

@@scottrich976 He was Simon Skinner in Hot Fuzz not Shawn of the dead

[@Abigart69]

And volkoff

[@jonny_codphilo7809]

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[@GreyHulk2156]

"Kill Every Damn Person" was the working title for Licence To Kill. ;P

[@vitalsignscritical]

Actaully Licence To Kill was supposed to be Licence Revoked but they didn't think americans would widely understand the title so they changed it.

[@DeadReckon]

Huh, so Q was pranking people with airbags in chairs before the internet came around... Good to know!

[@GreyHulk2156]

Q doesn't prank people. How I imagine he would respond to your 'accusation'... "No, no, no. I just haven't perfected it yet." ;P

[@Christopher-N]

Airbags in chairs, reminds me of Mr. Big shooting one of Q's gas cartridges into the couch Whispers was sitting on in _Live and Let Die._ But of course, Q doesn't mess about with his devices, as quoted in _Goldfinger,_ "I never joke about my work, 007."

[@marinacelada3246]

@@Christopher-N A phrase later quoted by the promoted R in "Die Another Day".

[@GreyHulk2156]

"I never joke about my work, 007" :)

[@UberNeuman]

Timothy Dalton got shafted by the studio and the Bond producers - kind of the same way Brosnan got shafted years later by the studio and the Bond producers.

[@TheNews1990]

Actually Timothy Dalton had scheduling issues in the late 80s, and then once they asked him in the 90s to reprise the roll he said he was done with acting... Then he went on to do small parts once in a blue moon like his roll in Hot Fuzz.

[@TheNews1990]

Not many people realize that there was 1 Bond film with an actor who portrayed Bond only once between Dalton & Brosnan films thanks to Dalton's scheduling issues.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Brosan was booted out pretty much. That's very different from how it went down with Dalton, from what I can ascertain.

[@boblowes]

@@TheNews1990 No there wasn't. The only actor to only play Bond once was George Lazenby, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. He was intended to replace Sean Connery, who had left the role, as he was angry with Eon making tonnes of money from the movies, and felt he wasn't being paid enough. Them, there was a huge amount of press intrusion in Japan, during the shooting of You Only Live Twice and that tipped the balance for Connery. Brosnan was pipped to play James Bond very early on, as his then-wife had a minor role in For Your Eyes Only, and he was with her during location shooting. And of course, people noticed the ridiculously good looking, young Irish actor. Roger Moore was starting to think about leaving as it was, by then. But the producers felt that Brosnan was still a little young. As it happened, he was also tied down to a multi-year TV show contract, for Remington Steele. Roger Moore wa convinced to return for Octopussy and then A View to a Kill. At that point, Moore decided to hang up his tuxedo and holster, Remington Steele was cancelled and Pierce Brosnan was free to play James Bond going forward. He was announced as such and introduced to the press at a big Hollywood launch. However, the network that produced Remington Steele still had a two-year option on Brosnan, that if they decided to exercise, would mean he that they could force him back to work, playing Remington Steele. And that's what they did, deciding that having been announced as 007, Brosnan was a hot property - and one that they had first refusal on. Remington Steele went back into production, and Brosnan was forced to return to the show, or face a massive lawsuit and an injunction that would have prevented him from working while a court case was worked out. He had no choice. EON Productions were now without their new Bond. So, they looked through some of the names they had previously considered in the past, and decided upon Timothy Dalton. He was contracted to play Bond for three movies.Dalton's first two movies - The Living Daylights and License to Kill, were released in 1987 and 1989 respectively. He was expecting to do a 3rd movie, but MGM/United Artists (who owned half of the rights to the Bond movies) got into severe financial difficulty, which took years to sort out. It put any future bond films on hold until the mid 90s. EON asked Dalton to return, but he felt it was too long a gap since his last movie, and decided to move on. He was still paid for his contracted (but never made) third movie. EON found that Brosnan was now finally free to play 007, as had been planned, and got to work with GoldenEye. There is NO Bond film with one actor between License to Kill and GoldenEye. That's completely incorrect.

[@TheNews1990]

@@boblowes www.digitalspy.com/movies/a869479/james-bond-quit-connery-moore-lazenby-brosnan-dalton/

[@l3nsman]

Fun Fact: "License To Kill" was initially named "License Revoked". The title was changed when a study showed that most American audiences didn't know what the word "Revoked" actually means.

[@marinacelada3246]

Yes, I know, but I also read that many mentally linked the title to driving licences.

[@mat5267]

Rumor has it that the studio also felt it was too close to John Gardners title, license renewed. You have to admit, license to kill sounds a lot cooler.

[@heggy_69]

To be fair license to kill sounds cooler anyway

[@marinacelada3246]

@@heggy_69 In Italy, it was titled "Vendetta privata", translating to "Private revenge" or "Private vendetta" because "Agente 007 - Licenza di uccidere" ("Agent 007 - License to kill") was already the title to "Dr. No". Now THAT sounds cool!

[@bitwize]

The word for props distributed with a game like the "official documents" in the Bond pack is "feelies". They were used by developers like Infocom in the early-mid 80s as pack-ins with their text adventure games. I was very excited to see you unpack the Bond-pack feelies, as it takes me back to another era when game companies added to the fun of a game by stimulating your imagination.

[@stonent]

Oh yeah Seastalker had all sorts of stuff in their pack-in such as a clue decoder which I think was really a veiled attempt at copy protection.

[@wu1ming9shi]

Yeah, I wasn't born in that era but I can imagine it being amazing as a kid!

[@loganmacgyver2625]

I wish those still existed, but I don't think its possible through steam. (Cou be possible through consoles thought)

[@Mattfromthepast]

Dalton is my favorite Bond too! He is the one I see in my head while reading the books. Love your videos.

[@theadamtron]

Thankyou for taking the time to make this video. It was fantastic to hear that audio cassette and gives a bit of atmosphere to the speccy game. Was great to hear the original actors voice.

[@SirHilaryManfat]

I remember the whole PC and console scene in UK became very odd towards the end of the 80's/early 90's. You had kids that originally owned Spectrum 48k's, upgrading to second hand C64's, which were being sold by C64 owners upgrading to Commodore Amigas or Atari ST's. Then you had the kids who were getting C64's, Spectrum +2's or Amstrad 464's for the first time, because they were all dirt cheap due to the 16 Bit computers emerging. Then you had all those kids trading in their new 8-bits shortly afterwards, when they discovered how good their mate's 16 bit machines were. Then you had the 16 Bit computer owners being swayed by the 16 bit Megadrive and SNES consoles, so they were being sold off to the kids who wanted a cheap second hand Amiga or Atari ST. There were loads of those 8-bit "packs" late 80's, because the computer companies were simply trying to get rid of their stock of outdated technology. Bit of a con really, as they all knew the 8-Bits would be obsolete, and most kids would be buying 16-bits shortly afterwards. It was great for families with a low income though, as the 8-bits already had an amazing back catalogue of games, with most of them being sold as Budget re-releases. The amount of choice and variety of different hardware specs back then was staggering compared to the dull Sony/Microsoft/PC/Mac thing today.

[@paulpetroleum]

I was lucky enough to get a Master System the year this came out. I'd had a speccy since 1982... It felt pretty redundant to me by this point. But it's strange I now probably would rather play the Spectrum back catalogue than most of the Master System.

[@Asobitech]

I would have sworn this the ZX Spectrum Lightgun pack my Dad bought for us as kids. But the more I dig into it, this may not be the case, we may have just had the regular Lightgun Action pack rather than the Bond one. Really enjoyed this look at it all, the games and the paperwork and everything. Thanks for taking the time and effort for putting this video together.

[@MrBenjenko]

Another reason for using Living Daylights might have been that License To Kill was quite violent and I think was given a high rating according.

[@MrJustin1855]

1:37 In the advert the kid wears/tosses a Texas Rangers cap. Didn’t expect a Texas baseball cameo in a U.K. commercial. Possibly filmed in Texas for the U.K. audience? Howdy from Texas!

[@39Chevy]

Yeah that threw me too. "What the heck did I just see?"

[@fjhfkldjsf]

It was semi-fashionable for youths in the UK to wear baseball caps with US sports teams logos on them in the 90s, I had a Yankees cap even though I knew nothing about baseball.

[@MrJustin1855]

zelandvideo Interesting, thanks for the insight. Looks like the kid in the ad had better taste than you at the time. Yankees = evil empire with trash for fans. Just giving you a hard time. 😂 GO RANGERS

[@BlaBla-pf8mf]

​@@fjhfkldjsf Yankees caps are popular in Korea now; other MLB caps much less so.

[@meetoo594]

Most people who wore baseball caps back then had no idea what the teams were like or had any experience of baseball as it wasnt televised here and the only similar sport we had was rounders, a game played by young kids at junior school mainly. Rounders played similar to baseball but without all the pomp and gayness and wasnt played professionally or seriously, it was just a playground game if i recall correctly. People wore the caps because they liked the designs, nothing more.

[@johnhansen04]

I love The Living Daylights. It is like a different take of the more serious Bonds, similar to On Her Majesty's Secret Service. These two stand out to me in mostly positive ways.

[@Destron5683]

In the 90s we used to have this phone game thing where you could call in to the phone number and they had these choose your own adventure type stories. It would read a story and come to a fork and you would have to press a key to make a decision. They sounded exactly like they audio tape, brought back memories lol.

[@wintercoal3008]

Ooh this is exactly what I needed to wake up to in the morning

[@skylius]

Same lol

[@AmbarWasTaken]

Ooh this is what I need to wake up at night (Im not jk lol)

[@TheeDoomguy]

Same

[@theadamtron]

The Living Daylights is one of my favourite Bond films. I like that Dalton portrayed a more realistic human bond and less of a super hero. I have never seen that commercial but the ejection office chair is amazeballs.

[@NumptyMcNumptyface]

What's even more interesting is that the actor portraying Brad Whitaker later reappears in Bond movies, but this time as CIA agent Jack Wade. Or maybe not, because CIA and arms deals.

[@jakublulek3261]

Mitchell the Sex Machine as Brad Whitaker is also known.

[@D.G.M.]

The name "SPECTRE" was first used in the novel "Thunderball", on which the writer Kevin McClory sued Fleming, because he co-wrote the story with him as a film script (that wasn't used at the time) and Fleming used this script as the basis for his novel. Later McClory settled the case and gained the right to make his own movies based on that novel (he eventually made "Never Say Never Again" in the 80s). As a result of this court ruling, MGM lost their rights to any characters and elements first appearing in that novel and that included both SPECTRE and Blofeld. Sometime after 2008 (can't remember when) MGM bought back the rights to these elements and that's why they could make a new movie centered on SPECTRE and Blofeld in 2015.

[@davidwalters6814]

I grew up in Silicon Valley in the 80's, so we didn't have the Sinclair. We had the unpopular Intellevision game system. My dad worked for Western Electric and insisted that this was better than the popular Atari. The complicated controls on the Intellevision didn't work for the longevity of the system. Simple Atari controls sold better. This was hilarious though.

[@Benjeta]

Yeah, back from work a new Nostalgia video awesome ! :D How can you show us confidential papers like that ?!

[@khaossilva7475]

Oh wow, now this brings back memories. I remember opening the box first time, and that passport, along with all the other extras! Keep up the fun reviews of old stuff, your way of doing it is great.

[@nicwilson89]

5:13 That blue passports dig had me in stitches. Well done, sir

[@johnwright8814]

My old passport was black, so I think that the idea we had blue ones came from this game.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@johnwright8814 Or, as is the case with most of the BS surrounding Brexit. Ignorance.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

pierce brosman was also their choice for bond originally, the 2nd choice was reluctantly dalton after he got renewed for Remington Steel. in the end it worked out as both embodied their own seperate eras, dalton the escalating end of the cold war and the 80s, brosman got to depict the fall of the ussr, realignment of global powers, and the 90s

[@superscatboy]

I got that James Bond Spectrum pack in the thumbnail for Christmas when it came out. It was my first computer, and the greatest gift I ever received. I'm now a professional programmer, and I owe it all to that awesome present. Thanks, mum and dad.

[@hi-friaudioman]

This would've been amazing as a child. I think it's so cool they put this package together.

[@TheSaabClinicUK]

"Go to the shooting range in Brentwood". Ha, i guess thats because Amstrads head office was there. Now a Premier Inn hotel in the same building. It was just gutted out and converted.

[@namakudamono]

DJ_PaulTUK ...that’s what they want you to think. I’ll bet there is a secret door that leads to an underground bunker.

[@fruto2010]

@@namakudamono and that's still one level up where they keep hero double agent russian traitor Skripal from russian agent's novichock.

[@TheRetroStuffGuy]

I grew up in Brentwood. As massive Amstrad fan I would salute the building whenever I walked past it as a kid. Sad, I know.

[@otherreality]

Such a beautiful pack, and that gorgeous minty +2A! Great video!

[@minkymootwo]

I got one of these packs for Christmas when I was a kid, it seemed sooo good at the time. Used to love getting the Spectrum magazines where you got a cassette on the front with demos and free games.

[@rob9472]

What a wondrous and glorious thing, Thankyou Mr Nerd.

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

If I remember correctly the Dragon 32 allowed for a feature to play tape audio in the game. I never had a title using that function, I only tried out some commands I found in the manual. That could be a much better way to add the in game audio while playing, and maybe just have an option to mute it and skip to the game, while the tape continue to next cue point.

[@KuraIthys]

The Ataris had that functionality as well. I happen to have some tapes that use it. It was pretty rare though. Pretty much only educational titles used it. The one I've tested is called 'an introduction to programming'. I've seen the feature used to make perhaps the highest quality version of 'Bad Apple' ever seen on an 8 bit Microcomputer. It certainly couldn't have run back in the day, because it uses a tape + a 60 megabyte cartridge... But leaving aside the impossible cartridge, someone demonstrated it running on an unmodified Atari 400. There's so many things that could have been done with a feature like this, even accepting the limitation that it doesn't allow random access. (the Atari can control the tape motor from software, but not any other tape functionality). Could have been used for loading music. Ingame music in more linear games, the equivalent of simple cutscenes... You name it. - I mean, for all intents and purposes it's a more primitive and limited equivalent to CD audio... But... no. Pretty much went unused as a feature...

[@TheVintageApplianceEmporium]

Fantastic! I had the JB Pack back in '91 and last year I found a replacement set at a reasonable price for my collection. Super video, thank you

[@cbcbmad]

"Impotent blue passports appeal to some" *chef's kiss*

[@Rick_Todd]

Imagine going back in time 2 weeks after this Action Pack came out and showing the person Golden Eye on the N64 lol

[@estudiordl]

Uff, yeah I see your point but in the other hand, ZX Spectrum, what a beauty... 😊

[@meneerjansen00]

Imagine showing them a Megadrive or even a C64....

[@CricketEngland]

At least the +2 had 128k memory

[@CPCGameReviews]

I find it interesting how in the advert at 1:31, there are no shots at all of the game being played. I wonder why that is?!

[@KuraIthys]

The audio tape is a fascinating touch. Brings to mind the rarely used feature that the Atari micros had. Atari tapes were actually stereo, but on the vast majority of tapes the left channel is blank. this is because the right audio channel has the data, while the left is an audio track that the computer plays directly. Combine this with the fact that the computer has software control over starting and stopping the tape motor, as well as the ability to use sync marks on the data section of the tape, and the computer can actually play tape audio in time to program specified prompts. It's finicky, but fascinating. In a way, it's a cruder and more limited form what we'd later see with games that have CD audio tracks... Would have worked really well with something like this... But, the Atari, owing to it's lack of popularity likely wouldn't have seen a pack like this. Given the era though, would have been funny to see an equivalent pack for an XEGS...

[@RubiSempai]

the living daylights is one of my favorite James Bond movie! so sad you couldn't put any reference to the lovely main theme performed by A-ha ...

[@Richie016]

Certainly, nostalgic if not nerdy. Agent 007 is still that awesome! even today.

[@stucopland]

True story - Timothy Dalton is awesome in everything he's ever been in.

[@ches74]

I agree that Dalton was underrated and people are quick to credit Craig with a tougher Bond but Dalton insisted on that first. It was less because of the nature of the legal dispute and more the ~5 years it took to resolve, he was no doubt cheesed off but I believe he was also concerned he was getting too old to be credible as Bond.

[@kjamison5951]

IIRC, Dalton insisted that his Bond wasn’t as promiscuous with the ladies as his predecessors. It was a time of great fear with the AIDS pandemic.

[@philfiddyment5292]

Great video and love that Dixons catalogue, is there anywhere that would have it scanned online (ive been looking but only found Argos)?

[@anthonybradley1555]

£79.95 for a rental copy of the living daylights, man i knew rental copies of movies cost alot back then but that was expensive for late 80s, i have that rental release as well.

[@005AGIMA]

Great video as always. Never knew how well the pack was held together with the theme. I also share your own fave bond. Timothy Dalton was criticized for playing the role too seriously but he was the best BECAUSE of that. And yet here we are in the "amazing more realistic" Daniel Craig era. Sigh.

[@richfreyabailey]

You've reminded me why I never had a Spektrum on my Xmas list.

[@knotsandcrosses1]

10:18 - at the time Eon, the owners of the Bond franchise were in a lawsuit with Kevin McClory who owned the rights to SPECTRE and also claimed to have created the cinematic James Bond and was the rightful owner of the franchise. I imagine that their legal department made sure no reference to SPECTRE was made so that McClory didn't have more ammunition for his court case.

[@techbaffle]

Completely unrelated but I have that same Orion TV! I remember plugging in my camera and recording it on to VHS - it was so cool.

[@EdisonTheFox]

That Yellow VCR Combo.... That is the exact TV I had when I played my PlayStation as a kid!!! Like... The Exact model and colour! The memories are flooding back from that!!!

[@anumeon]

I was so sad that the audiotape did not self destruct in the end.. :D

[@gwishart]

They self destruct if you leave them in a damp loft for 30 years.

[@cpuwrite]

Spectre is from some of the old Bond movies. The name is actually an acronym. It stands for SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Torture and REvenge.

[@pastamanofficial]

did you know that theres a channel called nerdstalgic? seems kinda similar to your name

[@lwvmobile]

This video reminds me of the '7 Days of 007' that TBS and/or TNT would air in the 90s. That was my exposure to James Bond as a kid, watching those movies when WCW wasn't on. Then, when I was 13 I got an N64 and GoldenEye for my birthday.

[@hotcozmo]

Great video thanks 😊

[@thenodfather]

Overall it looks like a solid package. Thanks for this Peter.

[@TKnightcrawler]

"Now known as Square Enix" implies that they changed their name to Square Enix after phenomenal growth. But both Square and Enix have at this time already published games under their own names, so I am guessing you meant that Domark Ltd was acquired by Square Enix.

[@stonent]

Well Square was its own company, Square Co Ltd. which was making the Final Fantasy series. Enix was a company making the Dragon Warrior / Dragon Quest series. They merged in the late 1990s or early 2000s. It looks like Domark was acquired by Eidos which was merged into SCi which was merged into Square Enix. So a very round about way they became it.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

Interesting that Q’s target range is in Brentwood.....Amstrad’s old HQ!

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

This very pack was my Christmas present in 1989, and my god it was amazing. Everyone wanted to play it. Start of my live of spectrum. Then my one set of my grand parents got me a cheetah 125 joystick and others got some code master games for me. Honestly it was amazing.

[@marinacelada3246]

"SPECTRE" was likely changed to "SPIDER" due to the legal battle between film rights holder Danjaq and Fleming's friend, "Thunderball" co-author and "Never Say Never Again" producer Kevin McClory, a battle destined to end only in 2015. Even the "From Russia with Love" video game or the earlier "James Bond Junior" sub-franchise were forced to change the terrorist organisation's name (into "OCTOPUS" and "SCUM", respectively). Also, even the original screenplay for "The Spy Who Loved Me" included Blofeld and SPECTRE, but they were both deleted.

[@greenhowie]

The subtitles are rewriting the script at times... I'm gonna call that thematic serendipity.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Often, I change what I've scripted on the fly, and then forget to go back and update the subtitles.

[@greenhowie]

@@Nostalgianerd It's ok, I was joking - the message comes across as the same.

[@mattclarkemusic]

Nice video, but I should point out that the title comes from the short story, on which the defection scene at the opera is based.

[@penfold7800]

Cool. Did the screen really flash like that? What a terrible way to code it. I thought duck shoot did a better job, where it was just the 16x16 pixel square that went white when you pulled the trigger, matching up with a light sensor in the gun. ....or am I wrong?

[@apri1979]

The Amstrad‘s Light Gun looked amazingly similar to the Sega Master System‘s one. Is it the same with light optical changes?

[@gremfive4246]

How many of those cassette tapes were destroyed after use like it is instructed by the printing on those cassettes?

[@CricketEngland]

The Spectrum + 2 was based one the Amstrad CPC 464 except it has the same memory as the Amstrad CPC 6128

[@SkuldChan42]

I like how the 128k logo looks worn out in the advert :).

[@CanKenMakeIt]

They Living Daylights was a short story that roughly depicts the sniper defector scene from the movie.

[@phgodts]

This gun is almost identical to the Sega Light Phaser Zillion

[@KuraIthys]

Also looks very similar to the gun included with the Atari XEGS...

[@modembuddy4010]

Could you have played the audio side of those tapes in the ZX Spectrum?

[@Clay3613]

The Living Daylights is my favorite Bond movie, but Roger Moore is the best Bond.

[@Lokd0wn]

This was my first games machine. I remember being in awe at the fact they got Desmond Llewellyn to do the mission briefings, and with the other extra bits that came with it. I also remember the Mission Zero game being a bit shit, so I played the other two titles much more. My dad said that putting the light gun near the screen was cheating, little did he know just how bad the hit detection of that thing was.

[@Gadgetman1989]

There's a few things I take away from this, 1. I feel this is something similar to the GB game 007 James Bond that came out, and 2. Q; Now pay attention 007, I've always tried to teach you 2 things; 1. Never let them see you bleed 007; and the second? 2. Always Have an escape plan

[@win33adam]

Wow this brought back some nice memories, got this as my Xmas present in '89. I was 6 years old and really wanted an NES but my parents wanted me to have something that I could use for other tasks and not just gaming :(

[@Showsni]

I used to have Live and Let Die on my Amstrad - from what I can remember, it focused pretty much entirely on the speedboat chase scene.

[@CPCGameReviews]

That's correct. Elite were developing a game called _Aquablast_ in which you had to travel to some enemy bases by speedboat and then destroy them. Domark saw it and made a deal with Elite to rebrand the game as Live and Let Die.

[@mradamdavies]

I got this pack when I was very young... Until literally just now I always thought I just couldn't figure out how to play The Living Daylights / Mission Zero... I never had the light gun! No wonder I couldn't get it working!

[@matthewdodd3164]

Any chance we can get a scan of that Dixon’s book??

[@belter321123]

I got the action pack for Christmas. God knows how may parents afforded that.

[@mooniejohnson]

Lord Nostalgia Nerd, is there any chance we could get the audio tape ripped to an MP3? It just seems proper!

[@stuartkenny7430]

Brilliant video! Dalton's Bond was closest to how Fleming wrote him, and it's a shame he didn't more than 2 films, but as you said circumstances beyond Dalton's control saw to that. I think they went with artwork from The Living Daylights rather than Licence to Kill, as that had been rated 15, and it probably wouldn't have been advisable to have tied that in at a game aimed at kids. 😛 I'm also surprised they were allowed to use SPECTRE in the game, as Kevin McClory owned the rights to that side of Bond, and Eon/MGM wouldn't get control of the SPECTRE related rights until 2013. Unless Domark found a loophole... 🤔 As for Spider instead of SPECTRE, as you say, there seems to have been a lot miscommunication between whoever did the script for the audio recording and the actual game programmers.

[@KeoniPhoenix]

As a Bond aficionado, I've enjoyed the Dalton films and find them to be underrated but the plots of the movies are well... typical of late 1980s fad of every villain being a drug kingpin. Your synopsis of The Living Daylights film is spot on.

[@anonvideo738]

well, between the soviet union becoming weaker and weaker, them running out of Flemming material, and the AIDS epidemic making it less suitable for bond to sleep around, they had to change something. And drug kingpins chainsawing people apart helped make Dalton to be a more serious bond, to help washdown years of Moore camp.

[@cyrilio]

Still watching but my first impression is that this pack is amazing.

[@qlqnjeffey6917]

Good graphics I had no idea the people were so detailed in those days.

[@Stormy2142]

hey that's a Zillion pistol for the Sega Master System

[@kemi242]

I feel a little proud for my home country. :) The Bond games for the Speccy were actually developed by Novotrade in Hungary, and Orion is also a Hungarian brand.

[@MrMaxeemum]

I was a C64 guy in the 80s but would have loved to have had this and would have probably wet myself due to all the James Bond goodness which were my favourite movies at the time.

[@croccy22]

That Spectrum was purchased from my local Dixons store :)

[@martinburns5982]

my first computer pack, and for xmas too ❤

[@shelby3822]

The kid points the gun right at his head - cracking

[@kenstr321]

A light gun that fire's armor piercing shells? Does it only work on 'light armor'?

[@0xc0ffea]

The Brentwood reference is amusing .. it's where Amstrad's office's were located.

[@TheSaabClinicUK]

Ha !, I had that same Ferguson Tape player with the LED VU meters. Feeding games in to my Acorn Electron. Wow that brought back memories.....

[@System_Sega]

Looking at that Dixons catalogue, In 1990 the Spectrum cost more than the Mega drive. That just seems insane to me.

[@JesusisJesus]

Was that tape narrator Vivian Stanshall, at about 3 o’clock in the morning? Goodnight!

[@kenknight5983]

The Living Daylights was one of the short stories. It starts at the shooting range, then goes to the sniping scene outside the orchestral concert, which the movie pretty much copied verbatim. The story ends at the part where Bond says, "whoever she was, I must have scared the living daylights out of her."

[@goldenpun5592]

I love Timothy Dalton too! Very underrated. I heard his films weren't as popular because they were a little too real? Like too Dark at the time? Especially license to kill, what with the drugs and the shark eating poor Felix. Oh but that opening chase sequence in the living daylights is probably my favorite of all time. parachuting out of the back of a truck mid air? bad ass

[@CrashM85]

Ahh the memories, i have this exact version of the Spectrum

[@Nikku4211]

Why does Q's voice sound like it would be sampled in a Hideki Naganuma song?

[@honestguy7764]

20:10 Is that soviet officer wearin a pair of doc martens??

[@sisyphus8870]

He had body armour on, he has bullet holes in his shirt.