James Bond 007 CCG

James Bond 007 CCG covers the Pierce Brosnan era of the franchise, with GoldenEye fresh on cinemas and Tomorrow Never Dies about to land, giving the game the widest Bond-character pool of any licensed product to that point.

The game

Released in 1995 by Target Games (the Mutant Chronicles / Doomtrooper publisher), James Bond 007 CCG is a two-player espionage duel where one player takes on Bond (or a supporting ally like M, Q or Moneypenny) and the other takes on a Villain (Blofeld, Scaramanga, Dr. No, Trevelyan from GoldenEye). Mechanics use a Gambit system where players spend resources to trigger signature Bond-film sequences (car chase, ski chase, casino confrontation).

The context

Target Games had already proven CCG chops with Doomtrooper and licensed the Bond property at the tail end of the long license-availability window that opened after Licence to Kill and before the Brosnan-era marketing lockdown. The card pool includes characters, vehicles and locations from roughly Dr. No through GoldenEye, which gives the set an unusually wide historical reach.

The collector angle

Only the base set released before Target Games' late-1990s financial struggles killed the expansion pipeline. Sealed boxes are genuinely rare because European distribution was tighter than North American and many US copies are loose collector-broken stock. The foil Bond vehicle cards (Aston Martin DB5, Lotus Esprit, BMW Z3) are the primary chase pulls and are cross-bought by Bond vehicle collectors independent of the CCG market. Licensed Pierce Brosnan-signed promos from a 1995 Rockford Fosgate promotional tour exist in very limited numbers.