Spy Strikes Back (The)

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rave.N - 23/06/2015
Music. Seven pieces of amazing music, including Beethoven's 5th first movement and Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Done much better than the previous game "Spy's Demise".

It'd be easy to overlook how great this music is. The game itself is not so hot, the first music track of the seven is also not so hot. And this particular download has a title screen with explosions interrupting the music. There exists an alternate version without explosions on the title.

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Spy Strikes Back (The) atari screenshot
Spy Strikes Back (The) atari screenshot
Spy Strikes Back (The) atari screenshot
Spy Strikes Back (The) atari screenshot
Spy Strikes Back (The) atari screenshot

Information

GenreArcade - MiscellaneousYear1983
LanguageMachine LanguagePublisherPenguin Software
ControlsJoystickDeveloper[n/a]
Players1CountryUSA
Programmer(s)

Hardy, Robert / Pelczarski, Mark

LicenseCommercial
Graphic Artist(s)

[n/a]

MediumTape Disk
Sound

[n/a]

Rarity
Cover Artist(s)[unknown]Serial-
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Additional Comments

Sequel to Spy's Demise. Re-released on the Arcade Album #1 compilation.

Check the UK version here.

Missing original tape image!

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Book / Magazine Reviews

 Electronic Fun · February, 1984Rating: 2.5 / 4 


Though he may have met his maker thousands of times in Spy's Demise, Penguin's secret agent indeed strikes back in another challenge of reflexes and cryptography. The Spy Strikes Back is not a difficult game to master (the subtitle is "How Not To Be Seen" and the more time you spend cowering in a dark corner, the more time you'll live) but it is a difficult job to find, let alone... [more]


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