When we finally added the game to our own collection-because a friend had upgraded to an Xbox and donated his collection of Nintendo 64 games-we had to play the game in “paintball mode” which made the bullets show up as paint splatters.įast forward a couple decades and I am starting at the beginning, Casino Royale, written in 1953 by Ian Fleming. I grew up in a somewhat sheltered household, and for a long time I was not allowed to play games that featured such explicit violence (not that I am complaining about the copious amounts of time I sunk into Super Mario 64 and Donkey Kong 64 instead), so for a long time I only knew the game vicariously through my brother’s recollections of playing the game at sleepovers. By this, I mean that my introduction to James Bond was through the videogame GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64. I was, of course, aware of the phenomenon of James Bond well before I knew there were books, before I knew who wrote them and when, and, before I even knew there were movies. They are easier to fight for than principles.” “Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James.
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