Easy to use cross hair makes for an excellent arcade port. The difficulty ramps up quickly but fairly, making for an intense challenging game. Highly recommended. |
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The fact that you can play with a trackball is also a bonus. Simply press Ctrl and 'T' to enable this. A great conversion. Anyone know the actual UK release date for the 8-bit version? I'm trying to date when I purchased many of my games. |
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This one was always about those unique explosions. They were mesmerizing and even a bit eerie, growing almost organically to swallow-up the incoming missiles and combining together in interesting arcing patterns. No other game had such cool explosions, and mimicked the arcade game quite well (unlike, say the Atari 2600 version, which I still enjoyed a lot but always found the explosions lackluster). Having only one base made sense for the home versions, and unlike the 2600 version it was nice to see satellites and planes. All-in-all a very nice translation of the arcade original. |
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"Missile Command+" is the same game that has been updated in 2005 by Paul Lee. The one thing least faithful in this 8KB cartridge to reproducing the Arcade is having just one ABM base not three, and MC+ in its 16K cart fixes this and also adds a little demo play and maybe a larger title sequence. I don't understand why MC+ is being termed a "hack" just because it is "unofficial"? |
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Punkydudester - 15/12/2014 |
A must have for your collection, I remember this game very well. It seemed simple yet really intense. Great game. |
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Daniel Thomas MacInnes - 16/10/2012 |
For any kid with a Missile Command cartridge for their Atari 2600, the 800 version was dazzling! It was also a lot harder and more tense, thanks to the breakaway missiles and airplanes. Graphics were terrific, very close to the arcade. If you played Atari back then, you definitely played Missile Command. |
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I play this a lot more now than I did when I was a kid. Great control, pace, and atmosphere, and so easy to jump right in.
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Many reviewers around the web don't like this conversion. In my opinion its not bad at all. Ok you might only have one firing base, but the graphics are almost arcade perfect and so is the sound. If only they would have given us a keyboard option to fire from three bases, like the original arcade game (which I own ;D) it would have been perfect.
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This was one of those terrific home conversions that made me really want an Atari 800 back in 1981. I enjoyed the 2600 version quite a bit, and felt it was a fairly respectable adaptation of the arcade game. But the day I saw it on an Atari 400 at an electronics store, I was just blown away. It looked like an almost exact duplicate of the arcade game. For me, this game has plenty of replay value, mostly to see if I beat my last (or best) score, or to see how many levels I can go. |
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Just as good as I remember it. Fast and furious. Lots of fun, though I would recommend using a jotstick/joypad rather than a keyboard. 10 out of 10!
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Muffy St. Bernard - 20/09/2007 |
Good even with an emulator keyboard! I'd rather a track TrakBall, but this game always kicks my butt anyway. |
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when you use the track ball this is a great game!! very fast gameplay with more than acceptable graphics (not like the arcade had steller graphics anyway). i always wanted to use the middle base in the arcade and when i saw this version for the A8 i knew it was going to rock!! |
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Nick Di-Perna - 06/12/2005 |
I’ve read some bad reviews about this little gem. Many rate it on it’s accuracy to it’s arcade counterpart. I actually PREFER this to the arcade game. Me and this kids have been coming back to it for a quick blast for years. Atari were right to build it into the XE game system. Supreme playability - isn’t that what really counts? 9/10. |
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You can control the game using the Atari TrakBall connected to joystick port 1. The combination Control+T activates/disactivates TrakBall control mode. |
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Use OS-B. This allows you to skip levels at the title screen by pressing a corresponding #. For example: After loading the game, press 6. When the game is started, you will be on level 6. This feature does not work in XL/XE mode. |
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