Publisher: Atari

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Release Date: 1981

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Missile Command was an port of the Atari arcade game.

Though slightly different from the arcade version in that you only had missile base instead of three, it held up pretty well to the arcade version.

Atari had designed a track ball controller for the home which worked with Missile Command.

On variation #13, if you use all your missiles and your score is zero, programmer Rob Fulop's initials show on screen. Atari's second “easter egg”.

Programmer Rob Fulop would go on to make Demon Attack after leaving Atari.

In the Japanese box scans, the “Atari 2800” was actually a redesigned Atari 2600.

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