''The Living Daylights'' is a

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adaptation of the 1987

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...

film ''

The Living Daylights ''The Living Daylights'' is a 1987 spy film, the fifteenth entry in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the first of two to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by John Glen, the film's ...

''. It was the second Bond game published by

Domark Square Enix Limited (formerly Domark Limited and Eidos Interactive Limited) is a British subsidiary of the Japanese video game company Square Enix, acting as their European publishing arm. The company formerly owned ''Tomb Raider'', which was in ...

following 1985's poorly received ''A View to a Kill: The Computer Game''. The game was released for all major platforms at the time and developed by De Re Software (Atari 8-bit), Exasoft (BBC Micro),

Sculptured Software Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game publisher from Long Island, active from 1987 until filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on September 1, 2004. Through a series of acquisitions between 1990 and 2002, Acclaim built itself a large portfo ...

(Commodore 64) and Walking Circles (Amstrad CPC/PCW, MSX, ZX Spectrum) from a design by Richard Naylor of Domark.

Legacy

The game was re-released as a

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on various cassette tapes with the

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007 Action Pack. The plot was greatly rewritten, and explained on narration audiocassettes by

Desmond Llewelyn Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (; 12 September 1914GRO Register of Births: DEC 1914 11a 490 NEWPORT M. – Desmond W. Llewelyn, mmn = Wilkinson – 19 December 1999GRO Register of Deaths: JUN 2000 A70E 247 EASTBOURNE – Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn, D ...

as Q.

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Movie Game Database - The Living DaylightsMI6 :: James Bond 2007 Video Games - The Living Daylights
* 1987 video games Amstrad CPC games Atari 8-bit family games BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games Cancelled Amiga games Commodore 64 games James Bond video games ZX Spectrum games Computer game Domark games Video games based on films Cold War video games Video games scored by David Whittaker Video games developed in Australia {{runandgun-videogame-stub

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