The vehicle can fire shots and flare bombs, and travels from left to right as the player progresses through each level.

The player can shoot or avoid enemies and obstacles that appear throughout the game, including boats, frogmen, helicopters, missiles, and mini-submarines.

In 1983, a new version of the game, titled James Bond 007 As Seen in Octopussy, was in development by Western Technologies, with a scheduled release later that summer.

"[6] In a retrospective review, AllGame's Brett Alan Weiss gave the ColecoVision version two stars out of five.

He wrote that the game "has so many flaws that it is easily the worst cartridge in the Parker Brothers library of ColecoVision titles."