132 · SPY VS SPY
The black spy and the white spy are out to outsmart each other before the time bell rings. Find the needed objects (money, passport, secret plans and airport door key) by searching rooms in the embassy, which include desks, file cabinets and other furniture. Foil your opponent by setting creative booby traps in the various rooms (a bomb in a dresser drawer, for instance). Traps can be disarmed with objects found in rooms (a water bucket from a firebox on the wall will disarm the bomb in the prior example). When all the items are together in the secret briefcase, head for the airport door.
SHOW NOTES
Spy VS Spy Longplay
Spy vs Spy II: The Island Caper
Spy vs. Spy III: Arctic Antics
Spy vs Spy (2005)
Mountain Dew Commercial
Spy vs Spy (TV Show)
Mad Magazine #60 (First appearance of Spy vs Spy)
Show notes
- Developed from the popular cartoon series, Spy vs Spy, is Mad Magazine’s first official computer game
- Introductions
- Is it wrong to call this a computer game?
- Mad Magazine
- Spy vs Spy
- Overview
- The object of the game is to collect various secret items in a briefcase and exit the building through a door to the airport, either before the opposing player exits or before the timer runs out. While searching for the items, traps can be laid to take out the opponent (or the player himself, if careless). Each spy has a personal countdown timer which depletes by 30 seconds upon each death.
- Gameplay
- Simulplay
- Traps and Finding items
- Trap em up
- Difficulty
- Escape the Room
- Combat
- Development
- Kemco brings this 1984 port mover. We never heard from them before, but it’s probably not a coincidence people are jumping on porting old games.
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper
- adds a side-scrolling play area. Spies no longer start with a fixed number of traps but must collect the raw materials to build them
- Spy vs. Spy III: Arctic Antics
- switches the location from a tropical island to the arctic. The spies fight by throwing snowballs at each other and setting traps, which decreases their body heat bar. Tools include a saw to cut holes in the ice for the second player to fall into. Lost body heat can be restored by moving into a heated igloo.
- Spy vs Spy (2005)
- Finally a story mode
- Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper
- EGL
- Next week - SUPER MARIO BROS 2