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It's 1998, I was 11 years old. I asked for my parents to order TND on Pay-Per-View. After the garage sequence, I was so bored that I turned the movie off.
In 2000 the VHS for TWINE came out and I rented it out of curiosity. I think I enjoyed it a little more than TND, but it didn't really make me all that interested in looking for more Bond films.
Later on in the summer of that same year, my cousin brought his video game collection and among them was GE64. I was actually pretty hooked playing that game. So much so that I was curious to actually rent the movie it was based on. To my surprise, I really enjoyed watching GE. Over time I would watch all the other Bond films whether through rental or on TV. I would certainly make sure to catch the marathons.
My 8yr old daughter is following in my footsteps. Watched the first 11 films and is already a hardcore Bond fan. Her favorites at the moment are OHMSS, DN and LALD.
I can't remember my exact age but it was around 5 to 7 years old. I've just bought my brand new Nintendo 64, and one day I went to what I could call of a 'Blockbuster' videogame store near my house. I saw this 'Goldeneye 007' game on the stand and I told my mother I wanted to rent that one for the weekend.
And I simply loved that game, and I'm sure everyone knows why.
months later, I was watching TV and I saw a Goldeneye propaganda announcing that the film would be airing in a few days. I thought that the movie was made from the game, not the opposite (I was a very naive child back then). I watched the film and I simply loved it.
Then, months passed and I saw a Tomorrow Never Dies announcement and then TWINE's a couple of months later. So... I became a Bond fan since then. Goldeneye 007 brought me to the franchise, so I stood here since then.
I'm currently 26 years old.
That was quite awkward, but I guess that I did not mind about that detail too much back then. I was more worried about how different the Archives mission in the film was from the game and why there were no 'Caverns'.
Finally got hold of this magazine again.
Found it online from a second hand shop elsewhere in the country. It is by Jim Lawrence and Yaroslav Horak. It s a good one.
That's one of the comics that Dr Cat features in, isn't it? It's good that you found it again as that's where it all began with Bond for you.
I've never read any of the comics he was in but I've read about them. I believe he appeared in two Bond comics.
DN and FRWL soon followed and I was forever hooked.
I only know about his appearance in ROD. What is the other?
As well as River of Death, Dr Cat also appeared in the comic strip Flittermouse (1983).
Thanks. I think I have read that at some point many years ago, but had forgotten about it.
I believe "Flittermouse" was Dr Cat's way of referring to his bats as it is an archaic term for bats.
We still use it in Scandinavia and Germany.
Really? That's interesting. We have small bats where I live that look just like a mouse with wings and I sometimes hear them flitting about at night. I think they stay in my neighbour's outhouses through the day. I don't have any bats in the belfry just yet though. ;)
Yes. He also reminds me of Dr No a bit.
No, can't say that I've heard of that but I probably should have! I always learn a lot from you on here.
I'll tell you a funny story about bats. Recently I had my oil boiler serviced and repaired and the repairman found a dead bat had somehow got sucked inside the boiler causing the boiler not to fire correctly. How it got in there is beyond me as the boiler is inside in an outhouse but it must have taken an opportunity to get in there when the door was open once. The repairman remarked that that was the first time he'd seen a bat sucked inside a boiler; usually it was mice. Well, I suppose as a flittermouse it was near enough. ;)
'88 : saw Bond movie for the first time , yolt then a yr mwtgg
I remember I was in Sweden early-mid 90s the first time I saw AVTAK Golden Gate vhs sleeve , it blew my mind , nothing like old school Bond art
At the time, it was the one place we could see movies in french (too far from France for french TV in those pre-satellite days). And I was a frequent customer when I was allowed to go there (which means (mostly) matinee showings). I saw two Bond movies there : TMWTGG and LALD.
I love that everyone has unique and interesting experiences with 007 for the first time. However mine is very dull, I watched Quantum of Solace in June 2020 on record from itv.