Spy Hunter is a vertical scrolling driving game with the player in the role of a spy driving an armed sportscar. The object of the game is to travel the freeway destroying as many enemy vehicles as possible while protecting civilian

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Game designer George Gomez drew inspiration for the game from listening to an audio cassette tape of music from James Bond films. He designed the game with Tom Leon, with whom he had worked on TRON. Gomez sketched out the in-game road map on a long scroll

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In the United States, it topped the RePlay upright arcade cabinet charts for four months during 1984, in April, September, October and November. It also topped the Play Meter dedicated

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A pinball table based on Spy Hunter was released in 1984 by Bally.
The arcade game was ported to the ColecoVision in January

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• Bump 'n' Jump (1982), another game where the player can bump vehicles off the road

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• Spy Hunter at the Killer List of Videogames
• Spy Hunter Pinball at the Killer List of Videogames
• Spy Hunter at SpectrumComputing.co.uk

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In the summer of 2003, Universal Pictures acquired the rights to the 1983 arcade game Spy Hunter from Midway Games. The following September, Universal signed actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to star in the film adaptation based on the game. Screenwriters

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