Missile Command

Missile Command
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)	Arcade NA: Atari Inc. JP/EU: Sega JP: Taito Game Boy NA: Nintendo
Designer(s)	Dave Theurer[2]
Programmer(s)	Rich Adam Dave Theurer
Composer(s)	Rich Adam
Platform(s)	Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Game Boy, Lynx
Release	Arcade NA: July 1980 JP: July 1980[1] EU: 1980 Atari 2600 NA: April 1981 Atari 8-bit NA: 1981 Atari 5200 NA: 1982 Atari ST NA: 1987 Game Boy NA: 1995 EU: 1995
Genre(s)	Shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	1-2 players alternating turns

Missile Command is a 1980 shoot 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and later licensed to Sega for Japanese and European releases. It was designed by Dave Theurer, who also designed Atari's vector graphics game Tempest from the same year.^[2] 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.

Atari brought the game to its home systems beginning with the 1981 Atari VCS conversion by Rob Fulop.^[2] Numerous contemporaneous clones and modern remakes followed. Atari's 1981 port to the Atari 8-bit computers was reused for the Atari 5200 (1982) and built into the Atari XEGS (1987).