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Happy 25th, GoldenEye 007!

 

Once upon a time, 20 ARS (Argentine pesos) had the same value as 20 USD (US dollars). It was back then when I urged my dad to take them from everywhere he could and rent me the Nintendo 64 with GoldenEye 007. It didn't happen every day, but whenever it happened –generally some Fridays–, it was the beginning of a glorious weekend.
In the blink of an eye, I became an adult. I have the N64, a boxed copy of the game and 20 pesos of spare, because the currency of my country has painfully lost its val...

Fascinations Galore: Analyzing The Main Title Sequence of 'Tomorrow Never Dies'

 

Released in December 1997, Pierce Brosnan’s second James Bond outing Tomorrow Never Dies dealt with the use of mass media and technology as deadly weapons. The plot was less political, intricate and suspenseful than Brosnan’s Bond debut GoldenEye in 1995. Nevertheless, Roger Spottiswoode’s film is an intense, dynamic and highly entertaining production that follows the 007 formula quite closely and adapts it to the late 1990s.

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GoldenEye: What Did The Game Have That The Film Didn���t? (And Vice Versa)

Nintendo 64���s popular video game GoldenEye 007 was separated from its source film by almost two years. The film, released in November 1995 and putting a rotund end to the rumours that assured James Bond didn���t have a chance in a post-Cold War setting, instantly established Pierce Brosnan as the Bond of the new millennium and generated a new era of Bondmania almost comparable to the days of Goldfinger and Thunderball in the mid-1960s. The video game missed the chance to take advantage of both...

GoldenEye: What Did The Game Have That The Film Didn’t? (And Vice Versa)

Nintendo 64’s popular video game GoldenEye 007 was separated from its source film by almost two years. The film, released in November 1995 and putting a rotund end to the rumours that assured James Bond didn’t have a chance in a post-Cold War setting, instantly established Pierce Brosnan as the Bond of the new millennium and generated a new era of Bondmania almost comparable to the days of Goldfinger and Thunderball in the mid-1960s. The video game missed the chance to take advantage of both the...

���GoldenEra���: Feelings, Facts, Nostalgia and A Job Well Done

Facts, anecdotes and funny stories regarding the development of GoldenEye 007 can be easily found everywhere these days thanks to the Internet and, mostly, social media: people who worked in the game are easily reachable on Twitter, and have offered interviews to many outlets (whether if you are IGN or just another podcast host) and replied to inquiring followers. If that is not enough, from time to time a YouTube user posts a video of an event celebrating Nintendo 64���s golden cartridge in aro...

‘GoldenEra’: Feelings, Facts, Nostalgia and A Job Well Done

Facts, anecdotes and funny stories regarding the development of GoldenEye 007 can be easily found everywhere these days thanks to the Internet and, mostly, social media: people who worked in the game are easily reachable on Twitter, and have offered interviews to many outlets (whether if you are IGN or just another podcast host) and replied to inquiring followers. If that is not enough, from time to time a YouTube user posts a video of an event celebrating Nintendo 64’s golden cartridge in aroun...

‘Confidential Mission’: An Arcade Game For Those Who Speak Spy

 

The popularity of secret agents reached a new height in the late 1990s thanks to the success of Pierce Brosnan’s first three James Bond films –GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, released in 1995, 1997 and 1999, respectively– and the 1996 film version of Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise. Not only the aforementioned films were a critical and financial success and revamped a phenomenon that began in the 1960s, but that effect was increased by its video game versions.
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'GoldenEye 007': An Unexpected Window To The World of James Bond

Made by a team of people who had little to no experience in the world of video games, GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64 solidified the resurgence of the cinematic James Bond with its source film from 1995, Pierce Brosnan’s debut in the role directed by Martin Campbell. It was also the door to the incredible world of 007 for many 90s kids: not only the game would take you to rent or buy the GoldenEye VHS tape, but using a magnetic watch throughout the Bunker II mission or facing off Baron Samedi and ...

'Memory': A Liam Neeson Action Flick, But With A Twist

 

Another Liam Neeson film takes us to the inevitable “Do we need yet another Liam Neeson action flick?” question. I don’t dare to answer that question because, while I am well aware that theatres have been bombarded with these kinds of productions lately, I can’t say I don’t enjoy them although I never saw anything out of this world with them. Until now.

The fact that Memory is directed by the man behind GoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006) makes it special, along with the fact that the Iris...

Why James Bond Must Survive, No Matter What

Not so long ago I went to buy a couple of DVDs at a store I haven’t been to for a long time, and the manager, who knows I’m a James Bond fan and I have in fact bought him a couple of stuff some years ago made me the inevitable question: “What do you think about the latest film?” Inadvertently, he asked me something whose answer makes me get into trouble with many people because if you have been a Bond fan for almost 25 years, the ending of No Time To Die will not leave you indifferent, as many r...