Ports and Related Releases
The game was ported to several home systems for personal use. Data East ported it to the Commodore 64 and released it in Europe and North America in 1989, while Ocean Software ported it to the Amiga (with completely different background music composed by Tim Follin), Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1990 exclusively in Europe. In 2010, G-Mode and G1M2 added the arcade game to Data East Arcade Classics as "Secret Agent".
Several references from Data East's other arcade games made cameo appearances in Sly Spy. A poster showing Chelnov (a.k.a. Atomic Runner) can be seen at the beginning of Stage 3, the logo for the aforementioned Bad Dudes can be seen at the end of Stage 3, and a poster showing Karnov can be seen at the beginning of Stage 5. In the 1990 movie RoboCop 2, officer Duffy gets pushed by RoboCop into a Bad Dudes arcade cabinet, but with Sly Spy built into it. Along with a few other Data East arcade games, they appeared in the film due to licensing and advertising agreements between Orion Pictures, Data East and Ocean Software after the release of two video games based on the RoboCop property.
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