M.A.D. magazine’s comic strip of the same name comes to life in this game which was designed for one or two players. The innovative split-screen shows both spies at the same time. Play with a friend or against the machine.

The black crow and the white crow are out to beat each other before the time bell rings. Find the needed objects by digging through drawers, closets and furniture in the house. Foil your opponent by setting creative booby traps in the various rooms (a bomb in a dresser drawer, for instance).

A follow-up to the first Spy vs Spy game now sees the spies stranded on a desert island. This time, instead of the four items which allow you to leave for the airport, the spies must try to collect 3 pieces of a missile.

The third and final installment (after "Spy vs. Spy" and "Spy vs. Spy 2: Island Caper") sees the spies on an arctic island. Once again they're doing their thing - wandering round the island searching for items and setting traps to kill each other (or more frequently themselves).

First Star developed the first of its three games in its SPY vs. SPY® series to exploit its license of the popular cartoon series featured in MAD Magazine and included real-time animation, superb graphics, competitive game play and mad-cap action. The title’s appeal was greatly enhanced by First Star’s revolutionary, split-screen display, Simulvision™. This unique solution to head-to-head competition, invented by First Star, allowed both players to be active simultaneously, eliminating the need to alternate turns. Simulplay™, as supported by Simulvision™, enabled players to move about collecting items, setting traps (using the Trapulator™) and engaging in hand-to-hand combat if they entered the same play field.

Published by First Star in 1984 for the Atari 4/800; C-64 and Apple II, the game was exceptionally well received all around the world. There were Amiga, Amstrad, BBC/Electron, and MSX computer versions of the first game in the SPY vs. SPY series by the time the sequel was released. SPY vs. SPY, Vol. II-”The Island Caper”™ was also released for the Atari 4/800; C-64 and Apple II by First Star while it enjoyed an equal success by our licensees which included: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.; Accolade; Kotobuki/KEMCO; EPYX; and, Zoomsoft.

Kotobuki, under license from First Star, released SPY vs. SPY - Vol.1 for the NES in North America. Spy Vs Spy Vol. 1 sold 300,000 units in North America. Kotobuki also shipped Spy vs. Spy Vol. 1 in Europe and achieved excellent sales there as well. The Game Boy version of SPY Vs SPY was released first in Japan in June of 1992 and was then later published throughout the rest of the world and re-released in 1997. In February of 1999 First Star granted a worldwide license to Kotobuki for the Game Boy Color rights to SPY vs. SPY-Vol.1. Sega Enterprises, Ltd. licensed the Sega rights, throughout the world, for SPY vs. SPY 1 on their 8 bit Master System. They released the program in both Japan and Europe prior to its release in North America for Christmas 1988. SEGA renewed their license to this program for a fifth year due to continuing sales. Combined video game sales for the SPY vs. SPY programs, worldwide, on various systems are now about 2 million units.