When Roger Moore starred as James Bond for the seventh and final time (in A View to a Kill) he was 57 years old, resulting in the movie's publicity campaign being largely overshadowed by criticism of his advancing years and allusion to Moore's unfeasibility as a superspy. A shame since it's not a bad movie, featuring some memorable action sequences, Christopher Walken, the out of this world Grace Jones and a tiny cameo from Dolph Lundgren. To refresh your memory, it's the one in which Max Zorin (Walken), a psychopathic industrialist schemes to decimate Silicon Valley in order to monopolise the computer chip business, and climaxes with a scrap balancing precariously on top of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge following a failed blimp airship escape.

Softstone's accompanying 8-bit computer game of the same name, like the movie, was released in 1985. It's a multi-perspective/genre affair that attempts to mimic the pivotal events of the film. In particular, the scenes that take place in Zorin's mine, City Hall, and the streets of Paris. Some stages are navigated on foot from a side view, others shown from a split-screen, 3D 1st person/top-down vantage point driving Bond's stolen 1983 Renault 11 TXE taxi (the one that's destined to be comedically cut in two mid-chase).