Missile command was the first game I've ever played in my life. This was in 1989 on Atari 800XL home computer my father bought the same year.
Atari 当たり [hiragana: アタリ] in Japanese means: "Hit" , "strike" or "to be right".
The game was on a cartridge (i'm sure today's kids don't know what is that!), I put it in the slot, and boom the game is on the TV ready to be played. This is an attempt to recreate the game after 32 years using Python programming language. This was not easy to recreate and I had to look up a lot of the logic on internet.
You are the local Missile Commander for the Missile Intercept Launch Function.
You are responsible for the safety of millions of citizens in six nearby cities. Nuclear war has just broken out. Wave after wave of nuclear warheads have been detected re-entering the atmostphere in your zone of control.
All that stands between the last remaining citizens of your country and a fireball of death are your lightning reflexes and sharp-shooting aim.
Get ready!
##System This is written on Microsoft Windows machine.
You try to shoot the fireballs aiming your cities to defend your citizens.
To get the source code, you need to have Git and Python3 installed on your system.
Clone / download files from Github repository
Create a local virtual environment
pip install pipenv if you don't have pipenv
Activate the environment
pipenv shell
Install the dependencies
pipenv install -r requirements.txt
Run the game!!
python missile-defence.py
Use the mouse to select where you want to target.
Press primary mouse button to fire.
Missile Command is a 1980 arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and licensed to Sega for European release. It was designed by Dave Theurer, who also designed Atari's vector graphics game Tempest from the same year. All The 1981 Atari 2600 port of Missile Command by Rob Fulop sold over 2.5 million copies and became the third most popular cartridge for the system.
Flash port of the original game
- working on sound system
- adding easter eggs from other Atari games
- possible appearnce of UFOs