Spy vs. Spy is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System where players control the black spy or the white spy, competing to gather essential items like money, a passport, secret plans, and an airport door key within an embassy. Players navigate rooms, set booby traps to hinder their opponent, and can disarm traps using objects found throughout the environment to reach the airport door first.
The black spy and the white spy are out to outsmart each other before the time bell rings. Find the needed objects (money, passport, secret plans and airport door key) by searching rooms in the embassy, which include desks, file cabinets and other furniture. Foil your opponent by setting creative booby traps in the various rooms (a bomb in a dresser drawer, for instance). Traps can be disarmed with objects found in rooms (a water bucket from a firebox on the wall will disarm the bomb in the prior example). When all the items are together in the secret briefcase, head for the airport door.