ICBM Attack

Moby ID: 85039

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ICBM Attack is a variant of the arcade game Missile Command. Like in the arcade game the player's task is to protect a number of cities on the ground but here the attack does not come from missiles. Instead there are enemy ships that enter the screen one at a time and drop bombs on the cities. The player has access to three outposts on the ground that are fired individually and are used to shoot down the ships as well as their bombs. Each outpost has limited ammo and when it has run out no further shooting can be done from it. Points are scored for hitting bombs and ships and for completing levels and at 10,000 points an extra city is given. The game ends when all cities have been destroyed.

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ICBM is one of the rarer games released for the Bally Astrocade with only about 100 cartridges being made. In addition to there being few copies of the game it also requires a special analog joystick which was shipped with the game. Since release the joystick has become even rarer than the cartridges with only one known instance of someone owning it. Therefore almost nobody has been able to play the game on real hardware. It is however possible to play the game on the MAME emulator.

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Game added by Kabushi.

Game added March 10, 2017. Last modified February 22, 2023.