The game was published by Mindscape Inc. and developed by Angelsoft, Inc. for the Apple II and PC Booter platforms.
Raymond Benson, the author of the James Bond continuation novels from 1997 to 2004, wrote the text for this game.
This James Bond video game involving interactive fiction is a text adventure game aka a text-based adventure game.
"Goldfinger" (1959) was the seventh James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming.
The source James Bond novel "Goldfinger" by Ian Fleming was first published in 1959.