Editing Missile Command (section)

{{Short description|1980 video game}}
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{{Infobox video game
| title = Missile Command
| image = Missile Command flyer.jpg
| caption = North American arcade flyer
| developer = [[Atari, Inc.|Atari]]
| publisher = '''Arcade''' {{vgrelease|NA|Atari|JP/EU|[[Sega]]|JP|[[Taito]]}} '''Game Boy''' {{vgrelease|NA|[[Nintendo]]}}
| designer = [[Dave Theurer]]<ref name="giantlist"/>
| programmer = Rich Adam<br />Dave Theurer
| composer = Rich Adam
| released = '''Arcade'''{{vgrelease|NA|July 1980|JP|July 1980<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M731137 |title=ミサイルコマンドコックピット筺体版 |trans-title=Missile Command cockpit cabinet version |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=19 May 2021}}</ref>|EU|1980}}'''Atari 2600'''{{vgrelease|NA|April 1981}}'''Atari 8-bit'''{{vgrelease|NA|1981}}'''Atari 5200'''{{vgrelease|NA|1982}}'''Atari ST'''{{vgrelease|NA|1987}}'''Game Boy'''{{vgrelease|NA|1995}}{{vgrelease|EU|1995}}
| genre = [[Shoot 'em up]]
| modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]], [[multiplayer]]
| platforms = [[Arcade video game|Arcade]], [[Atari 2600]], [[Atari 5200]], [[Atari 8-bit]], [[Atari ST]], [[Game Boy]], [[Atari Lynx|Lynx]]
}}

'''''Missile Command''''' is a 1980 [[shoot 'em up]] [[video game]] developed and published by [[Atari, Inc.|Atari]] for [[Arcade video game|arcades]]. [[Sega]] released the game outside North America. It was designed by [[Dave Theurer]], who also designed Atari's vector graphics game ''[[Tempest (video game)|Tempest]]'' from the same year.<ref name="giantlist"/> The game was released during the [[Cold War]], and the player uses a [[trackball]] to defend six cities from [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s by launching anti-ballistic missiles from three bases.

Atari brought the game to its home systems beginning with the 1981 [[Atari 2600|Atari VCS]] conversion by [[Rob Fulop]].<ref name="giantlist"/> 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). It is considered to be one of the [[List of video games considered the best|greatest video games of all time]].