A View to a Kill (video game) Norman. The second is the Duran Duran theme for the film. Mindscape published the text adventure game by Angelsoft Inc for DOS, Macintosh and Apple II computers with the full title "James Bond 007: A View to a Kill". Future Bond novelist Raymond Benson worked on the development of the game. It spawned a follow-up game, "". "Sinclair User" gave the ZX Spectrum version four stars out of five. "Commodore User" called the Commodore 64 version, "Certainly one of the better 'game of the film' implementations around." "Your Commodore" gave the Commodore 64 version two stars out of five and
A View to a Kill approached producer Cubby Broccoli at a party, and somewhat drunkenly asked "When are you going to get someone "decent" to do one of your theme songs?" During the opening sequence, a cover version of the 1965 Beach Boys song "California Girls", performed by Gidea Park with Adrian Baker (a tribute band), is used during a chase in which Bond snowboards; it has been suggested that this sequence helped initiate interest in snowboarding. This was the first Bond film with a premiere outside the UK, opening on 22 May 1985 at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. The British premiere was