

In stark contrast to that game’s success, 2012’s Eurocom and Activision release 007 Legends was considered a major flop.

It is also regarded as an important historical milestone for first-person shooters, heralding a transition from Doom-style mechanics to more realistic presentation and gameplay that influenced modern franchises like Call Of Duty, and regularly appears in "greatest games of all time" lists. Released in 1997 on the N64 to tie-in with the GoldenEye movie, GoldenEye 007 is one of the best-selling games in that console’s history and one of the most popular movie tie-ins ever released. Many other games followed, some of which were more successful than others. He first appeared in text adventure Shaken Not Stirred way back in 1982 for the ZX Spectrum, although his first properly licensed appearance wasn’t until 1983’s side-scrolling shooter James Bond 007 by the Parker Brothers, developed for various machines including the Atari and Commodore 64. James Bond is no stranger to video game incarnations.
