Another similarly titled James Bond video game also spun-off from the Bond movie 'A View to a Kill' (1985), was the spin-off 'A View to a Kill: The Computer Game' (1985) (VG). It was was published and developed by Domark and was available on the Commodore 64, MSX, Oric, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC platforms.
A View to a Kill (1985) was the first James Bond movie to have an associated video game produced tied-in with a specific James Bond movie title. The game had two versions, one was called James Bond 007: A View to a Kill (1985) and the other James Bond 007: A View to a Kill (1985). Though there had been a James Bond video game produced prior to it called James Bond 007 (1983), this was the first to have a Bond film's name which was also the name of the video game. A video game called "James Bond as seen in Octopussy" had been developed in 1984 by Capcom and Parker Brothers for the previous film Octopussy (1983). It was designed for the Atari 2600/5600, Commodore 64 and ColecoVision platforms but was never released.
This James Bond video game, 'James Bond 007: A View to a Kill' (1985) (VG), was published by Mindscape, Inc and, developed by Angelsoft, Inc. and was available on IBM/MS DOS, Apple II and Macintosh platforms.
A View to a Kill (1985) was the first James Bond movie to have an associated video game produced tied-in with a specific James Bond movie title. The game had two versions, one was called James Bond 007: A View to a Kill (1985) and the other James Bond 007: A View to a Kill (1985). Though there had been a James Bond video game produced prior to it called James Bond 007 (1983), this was the first to have a Bond film's name which was also the name of the video game. A video game called "James Bond as seen in Octopussy" had been developed in 1984 by Capcom and Parker Brothers for the previous film Octopussy (1983). It was designed for the Atari 2600/5600, Commodore 64 and ColecoVision platforms but was never released.
Raymond Benson, the author of the James Bond continuation novels from 1997 to 2004, wrote the text for this game.