James Bond 007: The Stealth Affair

James Bond 007: The Stealth Affair

Released1990
007 James Bond: The Stealth Affair, also known as Operation Stealth in Europe, is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, released in 1990. The game is mainly the work of Paul Cuisset (programming) and Jean Baudlot (sound). The game was released with the Bond license in the United States, although this led to some inconsistencies as the MI6 agent appeared to be taking his orders from the CIA. The Stealth Affair mainly features a point-and-click style of gameplay reminiscent of many of the LucasArts adventures of the time, as well as a number of more action-oriented elements including an overhead viewed maze section and a scene in which Glames/Bond attempts to escape from an underwater cavern before he runs out of oxygen. The cracked Amiga version of the game featured a primitive synthesized voice that would perform all the dialogue in the game if 1MB or more RAM was installed. Unfortunately the crack featured a bug which meant that if the player attempted to click the mouse button in order to skip through the speech faster the game would freeze and have to be rebooted. For this reason many seasoned players would actually remove the memory expansion before playing the game for any extended period of time.
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DeveloperDelphine Software
PublisherU.S. Gold, Interplay
ReleasedDecember 31, 1990
StatusReleased
GenresPoint-and-clickPuzzleAdventure
ThemesActionMysteryStealth
PlatformsDOS DOSAMI AmigaATA Atari ST/STE
ModesSingle player
SeriesJames Bond

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About This Game

A covert operative is sent into the unstable nation of Santa Paragua to locate a vanished stealth fighter, only to fall victim to a cunning KGB agent who manipulates him into stealing sensitive files before abandoning him in a flooded cavern. Upon his narrow escape, he discovers the theft is part of a far more sinister plot: a despotic ruler named Otto has installed himself through proxy governance, while an international criminal syndicate called Spyder—led by the mysterious Dr. Why—intends to weaponize the aircraft against civilian population centers. What began as a straightforward retrieval mission spirals into a race against time to stop a global extortion scheme.