MISSILE COMMAND iPad review

Classic Game Room reviews MISSILE COMMAND for iPad, part of the Atari's Greatest Hits collection available for download in the Apple iTunes store. The Atari Greatest Hits collection is a free app for your iPad and comes with Missile Command, so this game is (as of this review), FREE! Play the 80's arcade classic Missile Command with the touch screen recreated trak-ball or filp the iPad horizontally to play with your finger acting as the cursor. Sadly, Missile Command on the iPad fails to live up to the awesome experience of playing Missile Command with a Trak-Ball. Fans of Atari classics can also cheaply purchase additional Atari 2600 games and arcade classics for Atari's Greatest Hits like Yars' Revenge, Swordquest Waterworld and Crystal Castles... but once you see the fumbling controls of Missile Command you may just want to break out your real Atari 2600 instead. CGR video review shows gameplay of Missile Command played on iPad with touch screen controls replicating the arcade track ball from the Missile Command arcade videogame.

Category:

• Gaming
• Entertainment

Starring:

• Edit-Station 1
• Mark
• Space Gar

Directed by:

• Mark & Classic Game Room

Produced by:

• Lord Karnage

Written by:

• Wind Squid
• Dr. 8-Ball

Tags:

• MISSILE
• COMMAND
• iPad
• review
• Missile Command
• Apple
• iTunes
• Atari's Greatest Hits
• Atari 2600
• collection
• Atari iPad
• Missile Command iPad review
• gameplay
• controls
• track
• ball
• trak
• trackball
• trakball
• Trak-ball
• iPhone
• touch
• video game
• video review

[gillianorley]

I recently purchased an iPod Touch and downloaded a Missile Command clone called Warheads that uses a rather logical approach to the controls. You simply touch the screen where you want the missile to explode and launches to that location. It is not like controlling the cursor by touch as in this review, but rather the aim-point is immediately set where you touch and a missile is launched from the nearest base to that point. It is actually a better control system than the original track-ball.

[SuperSteve180]

how much is a million yen in us dollars?

[Alaska1925]

Man, I have it on my IPod and you would not believe how much it sucks!!! D:

[natsonline]

garbige

[mikelekretas]

Be fast and win iPad 2: goo.gl\8ONjl

[ubersuperdupercom]

Would you please review POD ODYSSEY - a new Swedish iPad game, with tilt controls? It's been featured by the US App Store, TouchArcade amongst others.



[downphoenix]

is that the only way to play it? Would be better to tap where you want to shoot. Touch gaming doesnt suck, it only sucks when you are using it to replicate physical controls.

[ThePadma1234]

Stupidly sucks

[infringementMAN]

@LanIost He mentions it getting sticky/smudgy as well. I don't see how a flat surface can effectively simulate a round ball.

[jack22331]

thing is that game the atari greatest hits collection was orininally a computer game. in fact i own a copy of it. and the games work great on the pc version. keep in mind that its only compbatible with xp so keep that in mind