Nintendo "James Bond 007" (1997)
The title doesn't make any sense -- why should the game?
Nintendo's James Bond 007 (1997), released a decade and a half after their original game, was a top-down shooter for the Nintendo Game Boy that has little in common with the other games listed here. Its developers Saffire chose not to try too much in the way of action on the modest Gameboy hardware. In this version, James Bond travels the world in an attempt to find out the secret behind General Golgov's plans, facing characters like Oddjob and Jaws. Bond also gets to flirt with Miss Moneypenny, receive a mission briefing from M and even pay a visit to Q's laboratory where they can pick up gadgets -- aspects of Bond lore that had been missing from the video game series. Bond must use items at the appropriate place and time to either sneak past impossible odds or to solve a mission. Players can save up to three games and/or delete them like Zelda games. Without weapons, player can either result to fists or karate moves. Players control Bond as he scours the various levels for different items to aid him in his mission. For instance: the sprawling black market level in Marrakech. Bond buys a cooked chicken from one of the vendors, uses it to acquire a cat which is then given to a trader whose stall is overrun by rats. (I think that was a scene in Casino Royale, right? Action-packed.) It also incorporated gambling mini-games such as Baccarat, Red Dog and Blackjack. It was covered in a 1998 issue of Nintendo Power being one of the last Game Boy games to be released in the 20th century. In addition to top-down action, players solved puzzles, collected items, and met people from multiple James Bond films, ranging from M to Oddjob. The RPG-like elements offered a surprising twist to the normally action-heavy portrayal... and he kills Jaws!
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