Numerous contemporaneous clones and modern remakes followed.
The game was released during the Cold War, and the player uses a trackball to defend six cities from intercontinental ballistic missiles by launching anti-ballistic missiles from three bases.Ītari brought the game to its home systems beginning with the 1981 Atari VCS port by Rob Fulop. It was designed by Dave Theurer, who also designed Atari's vector graphics game Tempest from the same year. and licensed to Sega for Japanese and European releases. Missile Command is a 1980 shoot 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc.
