Last Update: 4/23/07
Missile Command
Developer: Atari
Publisher: Atari
Designer: Dave Theurer
Release date: July 1980
Genre: Shoot 'em up
Mode: Up to 2 players, alternating turns
Platform(s): Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Mobile Phone, PC, PlayStation
Input: Trackball; 3 buttons
Arcade cabinet: Upright, cabaret, cocktail, and cockpit
Arcade CPU: M6502 (@ 1.25 MHz)
Arcade sound system: POKEY
Publisher: Atari
Designer: Dave Theurer
Release date: July 1980
Genre: Shoot 'em up
Mode: Up to 2 players, alternating turns
Platform(s): Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Mobile Phone, PC, PlayStation
Input: Trackball; 3 buttons
Arcade cabinet: Upright, cabaret, cocktail, and cockpit
Arcade CPU: M6502 (@ 1.25 MHz)
Arcade sound system: POKEY
Publisher: Atari
Like most top-grossing arcade hits, Missile Command was ported to the Atari 2600. In later years, it was ported to several other systems, such as the Lynx and Game Boy.
On the Atari Jaguar, there was also Missile Command 3D. It contains three versions of the game - the classic one, 3D, and Virtual. The last version is the only game that works with the virtual reality helmet from Virtuality (only 2 pieces are known to exist).
Having just acquired the Atari label, Hasbro Interactive released Microsoft Windows and Sony PlayStation versions in 1999, but they didn't sell well. Hasbro Interactive released a series of Atari classic remakes around the time, most of which quickly found their way to the discount bin.
Missile Command is scheduled for release via Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 in 2007.
The plot of Missile Command is simple: the player's planet is being attacked by an endless hail of interplanetary ballistic missiles (IPBMs), some of them even splitting like multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).
As a regional commander of three anti-missile batteries, the player must defend six cities in their zone from being destroyed. The game is played by moving a crosshair across the sky background via a "trackball" and pressing one of three buttons to launch a counter-missile from the appropriate battery.
There are three batteries, each with ten missiles; a missile battery becomes useless when all its missiles are fired, or if the battery is destroyed by enemy fire.
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[center]A remake of the classic 80's arcade game
Missile Command[/center]
File Name MissileCommand_1.1.zip
File Type ZIP
Developer Max Damage Studios
Operating System Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98
File Size 2.93 MB
Created 09/26/2006
Download Price Free
