GoldenEye 007 Trademark Renewed - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 March 2022 / 2,071 Views
There have been rumors and reports that a remaster of the classic Nintendo 64 game, GoldenEye 007, is in development and will be announced soon.
Danjaq, LLC, who owns many of the trademarks, characters, and other parts of the James Bond franchise has been granted an extension to its GoldenEye 007 trademark on March 15, 2022 that is for "downloadable electronic game software."
Due to legal reasons it has been difficult to get a re-release of GoldenEye 007 in the past as Nintendo, Microsoft, and MGM all own the rights to the game. It would require the approval of all three companies for a re-release to happen.
GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 sold over eight million units lifetime, which is enough to make it the third best-selling N64 game of all time.
GoldenEye 007 is a first-person shooter that released for the N64 in August 1997. It is based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.
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Talk about a remake that has been in videogame limbo, lol.
While it would be awesome if a Goldeneye remake was going to grace us sometime soon I wouldn't hold my breathe over it happening. That being said IF it did it would most definitely hit all those nostalgia buttons, that's for sure.
Personally, it was probably the most played game on my own N64 back in the day.
Goldeneye is one of those legendary titles that was at the right place at the right time.
A polished FPS on consoles.
An iconic franchise.
The early to mid 90's.
Co-op split screen.
All these things at the time truly made Goldeneye stand apart from anything else out there on consoles and it could be argued that it was the game that ushered in more prominent FPS on consoles.
While I doubt a remake could recreate even half of the impact the original did when it dropped I can almost guarantee there would be a lot of hardcore gamers lining up just to get their hands on a pivotal piece of their videogaming childhood.
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Fingers crossed. I still own the OG, however i would love to revisit it for nostalgia purposes.
I feel really strongly that this is tied to a simultaneous release on both Switch as part of the Online N64 Expansion Pack and a Xbox One/Series version as well. Last year, Nintendo went out of their way to get GoldenEye 007 unbanned in Germany. In fact, they did it on Nov 1 - just about one week after the N64 games launched on Switch on Oct 25.
The game actually releasing is just a rumor, but the trademark renewal is not.
Here's to hoping! I thought it was weird last year when the game was unbanned in Germany, but was supposedly at the request of Nintendo of Europe. Which coincidentally, is also located in Germany.
That wasn’t really a remake, more a re-imagining.
