Missile Command, Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 version of the classic arcade game, Missile Command, was programmed by Rob Fulop and initially released in April 1981 by Atari, Inc.

Although Missile Command on the Atari 2600 can only be controlled with joysticks, the gameplay is frenetic and exciting enough to feel like a close enough approximation of the arcade game.

Missile Command has 34 game modes, half of which are single-player and half two-player. There’s also a children’s version of the game, where everything is slower.

On level thirteen, if the player exhausts their missile supply without scoring any points, at the end of the game the city on the right will turn into “RF” – the initials of the programmer Rob Fulop. [insert your own smart-Alec response to that here]

More: Missile Command on Wikipedia

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