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Every age produces something that represents it in a unique way, and yet manages to remain timeless.
Missile Command is a product of an era gone by, but it still lives on. There was a Big Scary Thing called the Soviet Union, ruled by a Big Scary Thing called the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and they had a lot of Big Scary Things called ICBMs, or Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. They still have them, and they're not the only ones who do, but now they are not as Big and Scary anymore. So real, in fact, that both sides had been thinking for years about ways to protect themselves against an enemy strike. In late 1980 Atari released a game called Missile Command , which was deeply different from anything previously seen.