- Original Release: 1969
- Developer: Unknown
- Publisher: Unknown
- Platform: Board Game
- Original Name: James Bond 007: Al Servizio Segreto Di
An Italian board game from an unknown publisher. I manged to find information about it on Toys of Bond, who provided me of high detailed imagery of the board, components and Italian rules. Using Google Translate as a base, I translated the rules and they seem incomplete, and the full components don’t seem to be in the game.
The first stage of the game is simple: One player is Bond, one player is Blofeld. You roll one dice and move that many spaces. Some spaces will make you miss a turn, others will let you roll again – although these aren’t marked on the board, you have to keep looking at a chart in the rules.
When this is over, the game then says that you start playing a game of checkers on the bottom. Quite how this relates to the first half the game, I have no idea. The idea behind it makes sense in: the original movement is the actions of both Bond and Blofeld in the film, while the checkers is the final battle as Bong brings allies (the rules mention this much).
My interpretation is this: when one player reaches the end of the track, the game of checkers starts. This player then gets to upgrade on of their pieces into a king (representing the main character). They take turns playing checkers as normal, with the second player also moving their character pawn. Once they reach the end, they can upgrade one of their checkers into a king, but only on the row closest to them (representing them joining the battle late).
The artwork on the board has a great style and the whole thing certainly has a unique look, but really it’s just a roll and move game that leads to a (potentially) slightly different game of checkers.
Where to get James Bond 007: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
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