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Dell Comics published a comic book on a sporadic schedule that lasted from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, although only 5 issues were actually published. There were actually only four original publications, as the fifth issue was a reprint of the first.

In 1968, the GAF Corporation of Portland Oregon/Paramount Films released a View Master (21 stereo pictures in 3 round discs) with a 16 page story booklet ..."Good morning Mr Phelps. The man you are looking at is Dr. Erich Rojak, the nuclear physicist who has been missing..."

In 1979, Scott Adams released Mission Impossible, a text adventure game that placed the player in the role of a secret agent trying to save the world. Evidently Adams had failed to acquire the rights to use the name as the game was quickly reissued under the modified name Impossible Mission and later Secret Mission. Beyond the title and the name of "Mr. Phelps" which is mentioned on the tape recording at the very beginning of the game, it had no overt connection to the TV series.

In 1991, video game designer Konami created a Nintendo Entertainment System game called Mission: Impossible, based on the revived series. The game is considered quite well crafted and challenging. After the 1996 movie, several other games bearing the series name have also appeared, but the general consensus is that their quality is somewhat low, as if the games were made to quickly capitalize on the renewed franchise without delving into scenario possibilities presented by the series. For all the games, see Mission: Impossible (video game).

In 2003, Atari has published Mission: Impossible Operation Surma, a video game developed by Paradigm Entertainment for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube. The game featured settings based on the Mission: Impossible series of movies and had Ving Rhames reprising his role in the as the IMF agent and computer expert Luther Stickell.

In November 2011, Paramount Pictures and Funtactix had releasaed Mission: Impossible – The Game, a social game for Facebook that was based on the first three Mission: Impossible movies and on December released a special extension based on the fourth movie, just before the release of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.