Missile Commander

A Journey to the Top of an Arcade Classic

Tony Temple

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English

Independent Publishing Network
17 September 2020

Popular culture; Computer games: strategy guides; Games development & programming

One player. Three fire buttons. One Trak-Ball. A world that needs saving - one coin at a time.

Missile Commander is a memoir of one player's forty-year journey with Atari's legendary arcade title, Missile Command, which takes him from a run-down cafe as a teenager weighed down with fears of nuclear Armageddon, to finally being crowned the best player in the world by Guinness World Records. Along the way, he encounters game-changing bugs, paranoid rivals, private detectives, endless controversy and finally, a meeting with the very man who created the game.

Read the story of how this iconic game was developed, from initial concept to its domination of the arcades in the early 80s, through the eyes of the team at Atari who made it happen. Released on the fortieth anniversary of the game's release, Missile Commander is filled with many unseen pictures and previously unreleased detail about this arcade classic. This was a game that would haunt its programmer and the people who played it, setting the scene for what is now a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Missile Commander: A Journey to the Top of an Arcade Classic is a detailed celebration of one of Atari's best known video games.

By: Tony Temple
Imprint: Independent Publishing Network
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Hardback ed.
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781838537401
ISBN 10: 1838537406
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 17 September 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tony Temple, better known as The Arcade Blogger, is an active member of the classic arcade collector community both in the USA and in his native England.