James Bond 007: The Duel

Armed with a pistol, the player controls James Bond through various side-scrolling enemy bases to rescue female hostages and to arm a bomb placed at a strategic point to destroy the base. Along the way, Bond must battle numerous thugs and familiar bosses. The action takes place over five levels. It opens on the docks of a Caribbean island, then moves on to the jungle, an underground power plant inside a volcano and a space shuttle launch pad. In the final level, Bond must defeat Jaws and escape.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/games/duel|title=James Bond the Duel (1993)|date=January 2016}}

The Duel was released four years after Timothy Dalton's last appearance as James Bond (in Licence to Kill), but his likeness is used in the game, most notably the opening screens, thus making it Dalton's last appearance as Bond. It was also the final Bond game to be released by Domark, which had released a series of Bond themed games beginning in 1985 with A View to a Kill.

It was the first Bond game not to be directly based on a movie or novel. Instead, it had an original storyline, albeit one with familiar villains including Jaws and Oddjob. Though The Duel's storyline was not its strong point, it did blaze a trail for the future licence-holders Electronic Arts, half of whose Bond output would be based on original storylines. One previous Bond game, the Delphine-developed The Stealth Affair, included an original storyline but the game was originally based on a generic Bond-style character named John Glames and only had the licence added for its US release.

The Master System version is one of the few games that do not work properly on NTSC systems, although the Master System does not have region lock-out.

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| ASM_SMS = 10/12{{cite magazine |last=Trafford |first=Klaus |date=June 1993 |title=007 in neuen Abenteuern |magazine=Aktueller Software Markt |location=Germany |language=German |page=17}}

| GamePro_SGG = 4/5{{cite magazine |date=October 1993 |title=James Bond 007: The Duel |magazine=GamePro |location=United States |issue=51 |page=138}}

| GamePro_SMD = 4/5{{cite magazine |date=May 1993 |title=James Bond 007: The Duel |magazine=GamePro |location=United States |issue=46 |page=54}}

| GMaster_SMD = 60%{{cite magazine |date=March 1993 |title=James Bond: The Duel |magazine=GamesMaster |location=United Kingdom |issue=3 |page=81}}

| GMaster_SMS = 75%{{cite magazine |date=May 1993 |title=Review |magazine=GamesMaster |location=United Kingdom |issue=5 |page=86}}

| JP_SMS = 82%{{cite magazine |date=July–August 1993 |title=James Bond 007 |magazine=Joypad |location=France |language=French |issue=22}}

| JP_SGG = 78/100{{cite magazine |date=October 1993 |title=James Bond 007 |magazine=Joypad |location=France |language=French |issue=24 |page=160}}

| MMS_SMD = 66%{{cite magazine |date=November 1992 |title=James Bond 007: The Duel |magazine=Mean Machines Sega |location=United Kingdom |issue=2 |pages=94–96}}

| PO_SMS = 75%{{cite magazine |date=July–August 1993 |title=James Bond 007: The Duel |magazine=Player One |location=France |language=French |issue=33 |pages=84–85}}

| PO_SGG = 57%{{cite magazine |date=March 1994 |title=James Bond 007, The Duel |magazine=Player One |location=France |language=French |issue=40}}

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| rev1_SMD = 55%{{cite magazine |last=West |first=Neil |date=December 1992 |title=James Bond: The Duel |magazine=Mega |location=United Kingdom |issue=3 |pages=52–53}}

| rev2 = Mega Force

| rev2_SMS = 85%{{cite magazine |date=Summer 1993 |title=James Bond: The Duel |magazine=Mega Force |location=France |language=French |issue=19 |pages=132–133}}

| rev3 = MegaTech

| rev3_SMD = 52/100{{cite magazine |date=December 1992 |title=James Bond 007: The Duel |magazine=MegaTech |location=United Kingdom |issue=12 |pages=58–60}}

| rev4 = Play Time

| rev4_SMD = 72%{{cite magazine |date=June 1993 |title=James Bond 007 - The Duel |magazine=Play Time |location=Germany |language=German |page=100}}

| rev5 = Sega Force

| rev5_SMS = 84/100{{cite magazine |date=May 1993 |title=James Bond: The Duel |magazine=Sega Force |location=United Kingdom |issue=17 |pages=46–47}}

| rev5_SMD = 80%{{cite magazine |date=January 1993 |title=James Bond: The Duel |magazine=Sega Force |location=United Kingdom |issue=13 |pages=72–73}}

| rev6 = Sega Master Force

| rev6_SGG = 65/100{{cite magazine |date=December 1993 |title=GG review: James Bond |magazine=Sega Master Force |location=United Kingdom |issue=5 |pages=34–35}}

| rev6_SMS = 84%{{cite journal |date=September 1993 |journal=Sega Master Force |title=James Bond: The Duel |url=http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaMasterForce-Magazine-Issue2?gallerypage=11 |issue=2 |page=11 |access-date=19 November 2015}}

| rev7 = Sega Power

| rev7_SGG = 79%{{cite magazine |date=December 1993 |title=James Bond |magazine=Sega Power |location=United Kingdom |issue=49 |page=88}}

| rev7_SMD = 76%{{cite magazine |last=Cantlie |first=John |date=December 1992 |title=James Bond: The Duel |magazine=Sega Power |location=United Kingdom |issue=37 |pages=50–51}}

| rev7_SMS = 86%{{cite magazine |last=Mortlock |first=Dean |date=May 1993 |title=James Bond |magazine=Sega Power |location=United Kingdom |issue=42 |pages=44–45}}

| rev8 = Sega Pro

| rev8_SGG = 70%{{cite magazine |date=December 1993 |title=James Bond 007: The Duel |magazine=Sega Pro |location=United Kingdom |issue=26 |page=70}}

| rev8_SMS = 78%

| rev9 = Sega Visions

| rev9_SGG = 3/5{{cite magazine |date=December 1993 |title=James Bond |magazine=Sega Visions |location=United States |issue=16 |page=98}}

| rev10 = Sega Zone

| rev10_SMD = 88/100{{cite magazine |last=McCarthy |first=Patrick |date=December 1992 |title=James Bond: The Duel |magazine=Sega Zone |location=United Kingdom |issue=2 |pages=61–63}}

| rev10_SMS = 61/100{{cite magazine |last=McCarthy |first=Patrick |date=April 1993 |title=James Bond: The Duel |magazine=Sega Zone |location=United Kingdom |issue=6 |pages=48–49}}

| rev11 = Supersonic

| rev11_SMD = 79%{{cite magazine |date=May 1993 |title=James Bond 007: The Duel |magazine=Supersonic |location=France |language=French |issue=10 |page=18}}

| rev11_SMS = 87%{{cite magazine |last=Taborda |first=David |date=July 1993 |title=James Bond 007: The Duel |magazine=Supersonic |location=France |language=fr |issue=12 |page=36}}

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