Reviews

Mikro-gens version of the classis Missile Command coin-op and by the guy who went on to makes the Wally games no less. The basic idea is you are in control of the defences of a row of cities under nuclear attack. Warheads reign down in vapour trails and you have to destroy them before they hit home. This version has two missiles bases which for some bizarre reason you have a fire button for each one, because obviously there’s not enough keys already! You also get kamikaze satellites which will take out a base or a city.. Its pretty average overall, the graphics are nothing to write home about, and with the stupid controls its quite hard. You do get a hi-score table to put your name into. My main problem with it is the warheads and satellites exit the bottom of the screen and re-appear at the top so to clear a level you have to destroy everything unless you run out of missiles. Not very faithful to the original, and wouldn’t be hard apart from the silly keys. With the silly keys it’s pretty much 5 out of 5 on difficulty for me, and very much near the bottom of the pile. Maybe worth trying with a joystick, but as with a lot of these early games you get the impression no-one bothered pointing out to the programmer that god-awful keyboard lay-outs aren't going to help sales.

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