The best espionage games

James Bond is the iconic embodiment of the spy genre (or 'espionage'), but he is not alone in the colorful world of old video games, there are plenty of spies still around on AbandonwareDOS: Apogee's Secret Agent, Spy vs Spy and Mission: Impossible and more!

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Infiltrator

DOS1987 Chris Gray Enterprises

Impossible Mission 2

DOS1988 Novotrade Software

Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter

DOS1991protected MicroProse Software

Infiltrator 2

DOS1988 Chris Gray Enterprises

Lethal Tender

DOS1993 Pie in the Sky Software

Megafortress

DOS1991protected Artech Studios

James Bond 007: Goldfinger

DOS1986 Angelsoft

Code-Name: Iceman

DOS1989 Sierra On-Line

Code-Name: Iceman is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989. Designed by Jim Walls, known for his work on the "Police Quest" series, "Code-Name: Iceman" blends elements of adventure, puzzle-solv...

Metal Gear

DOS1990 Konami

KGB

DOS1992 Cryo Interactive Entertainment

Sid Meier's Covert Action

DOS1990protected MicroProse Software

Red Storm Rising

DOS1989 MicroProse Software

Red Storm Rising is a submarine simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1988, based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond. The game is set during a hypothetical World War III scenario, f...

The Fourth Protocol

DOS1987 The Electronic Pencil Co.

The Fourth Protocol is a 1985 interactive fiction video game inspired by Frederick Forsyth's 1984 Cold War spy novel of the same name. Developed by the Electronic Pencil Company and published by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, the...

Countdown

DOS1990 Access Software

007: License to Kill

DOS1989 Quixel

Before James Bond was saving the world with cinematic flair, he was crashing pixelated helicopters in 007: License to Kill. This top-down action game takes the movie and crams it into six bite-sized missions of explosions, awkward...

Conflict

DOS1990 Mastertronic

Inspector Gadget: Global terror!

DOS1992 Azeroth

Navy Seal

DOS1989 Cosmi Corporation

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

DOS1990 Capstone Software

The Cardinal of the Kremlin is an abandoned simulation game involving espionage, politics and govern management set in the cold war years. It was designed by Kenneth Rothschild, developed by Capstone and released by IntraCorp...

Operation Stealth

DOS1990 Delphine software

Hacker

DOSMac OS1986 Activision

Red sky at morning

DOS1993 Simulations Canada

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill

DOS1985 Angelsoft

Rise of the Triad: Dark War

DOS1994protected Apogee Software

The Third Courier

DOS1989 Manley Associates

The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 198...